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Coach Lohberg is a 6-time Olympic Coach. He is also certified by the ASCA as a Level 5 coach, the highest level attainable and one held by only the top 2 to 5 per cent of the swimming coaches in the USA at any given time.
He has qualified swimmers for the Olympic Games in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. Four of his swimmers participated in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, including bronze medal winner Anne Poleska (200m breaststroke) and double 5th place finisher Vladislav Polyakov (1OOm and 200m breaststroke).
He led his former team, SSF Bonn, to five German National Team Championships. After coming to the USA, he was head coach for the St. Croix Dolphins (U.S. Virgin Islands) and the Mission Bay Mako's, prior to settling in with Coral Springs and southern Florida. Here his passion for excellence ib stroke technique has continued to blossom with his teams winning many age group championships and many of his former swimmers becoming excellent coaches in their own right.
Michael's swimmers have been medal winners at the Olympic Games and World Championships in addition to many, many European Championships and Pan-American Games. His swimmers have won numerous individual national titles; and, prior to 2005, had set 62 national records for Germany, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
He is a sought after speaker at international coaches clinics in Europe and the USA.
Michael holds degrees from the University of Cologne (mathematics) in Germany, and the "Deutsche Sport Hochschule" in Cologne (physiology, physical education). He is internationally renowned for accurately monitoring training results via the interpretation of lactate tests.
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