Mike Nicolini is in his third season with the 49ers and second as an assistant strength & conditioning coach. He previous spent the 2018 season as an intern with the team's strength & conditioning department.
Prior to joining the 49ers, Nicolini spent seven years (2011-17) with San Jose State University's football program, three as a lead athletic performance coach (2015-17), two as an assistant athletic performance coach (2013-14), one as a strength & conditioning graduate assistant (2012) and one as a volunteer with the program (2011).
Nicolini played defensive back at the University of Redlands (2007-10), where he appeared in 36 games and registered 224 tackles, 31 passes defensed, 10 interceptions, four fumble recoveries and two forced fumbles. As a senior in 2010, he earned Division III American Football Coaches Association All-American honors and was also named the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Defensive Player of the Year after finishing with 61 tackles, eight passes defensed, two interceptions and one fumble recovery.
A native of Novato, CA, Nicolini earned his bachelor's in exercise science from Redlands in 2011 and his master's in kinesiology from San Jose State in 2013.
