JD Reive

Position: Head Coach Experience: 2nd year Alma Mater, Year: Nebraska, 2000

JD Reive is in his second season as Head Coach of the University of Iowa men's gymnastics team.

In just his first season at the helm of the program, the Hawkeyes broke four team records and five individual records under Reive's guidance. The Hawkeyes broke the total team score record with a 351.800 on March 24th, 2011.

Six gymnasts punched their tickets to compete individually at the NCAA Championships in Reive's first season. Reive coached his first Hawkeye to All-American honors with Matt McGrath in 2011.

Reive, who is the seventh head coach in the program's 82-year history, came to Iowa City after serving as an assistant coach at men's gymnastics powerhouse Stanford from 2003-10. Reive helped the Cardinal to four top-three team finishes at the NCAA Championships, including the 2009 NCAA National Championship.

During his time at Stanford, Reive coached 44 student-athletes to All-American honors. Reive was also honored as the Collegiate Gymnastics Association Assistant Coach of the Year three times (2006, 2009 and 2010) and was also the National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2009.

Reive also has deep connections with the U.S. National Team. Most recently, he was named the squad's head coach for the 2009 Toyota Cup in Japan and helped develop two members of the 2009-10 Senior National Team and one member of the Junior National Development Team.

Reive was a competitive member of numerous U.S. National Teams as well. He began his competitive gymnastics career at age five and gained a spot on the Junior National Team at age 10. His international career began at age 11, as he won the 1988 Junior Pan American Games. He was invited to move to the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs at age 15 and finished second at the 1993 Winter Cup, earning a spot on the U.S. Men's Senior National Team.

While at Stanford, Reive also founded JDR Gymnastics, a club program which developed and trained gymnasts for both Junior Olympic and USAG Junior National Team competition.

Reive's alma mater, the University of Nebraska, is the newest member of the Big Ten Conference. He graduated from Nebraska in 2000 with a Bachelor of Journalism degree, with an Advertising major and a Marketing and Design minor.