Karl Ziehn serves as Assistant Coach for University of California, Berkeley's Men's Gymnastics program in Berkeley. The Cal source profile describes Ziehn's current role and recent program context, including that Karl Ziehn, a Cal alumnus and former team captain, is in his third year as an assistant coach for the Golden Bears in 2026. In the 2025 season, Ziehn helped lead Cal to its top performance of the season with a score of 319.091 on Day 1 of the NCAA Championships, also qualifying seven men to the final.
The same profile adds background on Ziehn's coaching path, team results, and player-development record. In 2024, Ziehn helped coach the Bears to their best performance yet at the NCAA Championships, posting their best overall finish (seventh) and highest team score at the NCAA Qualifier in that scoring era (407.158) while qualifying 10 to the final – the program’s most since 2015. Ziehn recently spent seven years (2012-19) as an assistant coach for Stanford's men's gymnastics program, helping lead the Cardinal to a national title in 2019 and assisting in the development of dozens of All-Americans and several National Team members. As a gymnast at Cal, Ziehn recorded the third-best parallel bars score in the program's history (9.85 – old scoring system). For the ICDB record, that background gives readers a fuller picture of the experience Karl Ziehn brings to the Men's Gymnastics staff.
