University of Connecticut Athletics
Men's Basketball
- Title:
- Director of Sports Performance / Men's Basketball
- Email:
- michael.rehfeldt@uconn.edu
Mike Rehfeldt is in his first year as the director of sports performance for men’s basketball, joining Coach Dan Hurley’s staff in July, 2020. Rehfeldt is responsible for all in-season and off-season aspects of nutrition, strength and conditioning training for the men’s basketball student-athletes.
Rehfeldt came to UConn with extensive experience in strength and conditioning in both football and basketball at the amateur, collegiate and professional levels. Before coming to UConn, he spent eight years as the men’s basketball director of sports performance at the University of Cincinnati, where he worked with numerous future NBA players and helped the program earn NCAA Tournament bids in every season until last year’s tournament was cancelled.
Previous to his time at Cincinnati, Rehfeldt was a strength and conditioning assistant with the Cincinnati Bengals and the head strength and conditioning coach with the UFL’s Sacramento Mountain Lions and on the staff of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Rehfeldt, a 2005 graduate of St. Cloud University, and his wife, Elise, are the parents of a daughter, Olivia.
