Braman Elected to USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 2025

NEW ORLEANS– Former head coach Bob Braman has been elected to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame as a part of its class of 2025, the USTFCCCA introduced on Tuesday.

Braman turns into the third Seminole in program historical past to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, alongside former head coach Gary Winckler in 2009 and particular inductee Mike Long.

“I’m incredibly proud to hear that Coach Braman has been inducted into the USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame,” stated FSU head coach Matt Kane. “Bob’s years of exhausting work and dedication have left an imprint on tons of of student-athletes at each Florida State and USF. He set the usual of excellence for our program, profitable a number of nationwide championships, and it was a privilege to work with him for 5 years. His legacy on the monitor might be troublesome to match, however his influence on the operating group within the state of Florida is doubtlessly his biggest accomplishment. Having helped design a very world class course at Apalachee Regional Park, his imaginative and prescient for the operating group will assist develop the game for generations to return. Congratulations coach!

Braman spent 21 seasons as head coach for Florida State, a tenure that ranks second in Seminole monitor and discipline historical past.

Braman created a championship legacy highlighted by three NCAA males’s outside nationwide titles (2006, 2007, and 2008) and an ACC-record 33 convention titles (25 males’s and eight girls’s). The 2010-11 John McDonnell Award Winner because the nation’s prime coach, Braman’s tenure as head coach noticed FSU emerge as one of many nation’s most constant nationwide contenders as his groups earned a mixed 20 Top 10 NCAA Championship finishes. At the convention degree, Braman’s unmatched success included 13 males’s outside staff titles, 12 males’s indoor titles, 4 girls’s outside titles, and 4 girls’s indoor championships.  

Individually, Braman’s spectacular secure of elite performers consists of two Bowerman Award Winners – Trey Cunnigham (2022) and Ngoni Makusha (2011) – and Adrian Wildschutt’s runner-up end on the 2020 NCAA Cross Country Championships is the best end ever by a Seminole. Overall, Braman’s student-athletes earned 40 particular person NCAA nationwide titles and 428 All-American honors. 

Over the course of his profession, Braman earned a mixed whole of fifty nationwide, regional and convention Coach of the Year honors, together with three consecutive USTFCCCA National of the Year honors (2006-08) for outside monitor and discipline. On the convention degree, Braman was named ACC Coach of the Year 28 instances, and he earned 19 South Region COY honors. 

Braman’s stature as one of many prime distance coaches within the nation is borne out by the success of FSU’s cross nation program throughout his tenure. Over the final 24 years, FSU’s males’s staff have made 15 NCAA appearances, highlighted by a runner-up end in 2010 and a fifth-place displaying in 2012. He led FSU’s girls’s cross nation staff to their first three NCAA nationwide championship appearances (2002, 2003 and 2006). FSU received the ACC triple crown in 2008-09 and 2013-14, sweeping the convention’s cross nation, indoor and outside staff titles. FSU additionally has earned 5 NCAA South Region cross nation staff titles underneath Braman’s management. 

The official induction will happen on the annual conference from December 15-18 on the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas.

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