Bob Braman named USTFCCCA Hall of Famer

HICKORY, N.C. – Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Coach Bob Braman has been inducted into the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame. 

Braman, who initially retired in 2024, un-retired earlier this yr to affix the workers right here at Lenoir-Rhyne. His retirement on the finish of the 2024 monitor & area season was rightfully seen because the fruits of 41 mixed teaching years at a pair of packages in his native state of Florida – 24 at Florida State after 17 at South Florida.

Under his management, the Seminoles twice received males’s group titles on the NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships (2006, 2008) and completed on the nationwide monitor & area podium 13 occasions combining males’s and girls’s indoors and outside. His monitor & area groups received the ACC 35 occasions combining males’s and girls’s indoor and outside, together with sweeping the lads’s indoor and outside crowns six years (2005-10) and as soon as on the ladies’s facet (2014).

In cross nation, Braman led the FSU males’s groups to 5 South Region group titles and laid the muse for the ladies’s program, which he directed from 2000-06 that included the primary NCAA appearances in Seminole historical past (2002, ’03 and ’06). He was instrumental in growing the cross nation course at Apalachee Regional Park that opened in 2012 and held the NCAA DI championships in 2021.

His males’s monitor & area packages received the John McDonnell NCAA Division I Men’s Program of the Year award in 2010-11 and 2011-12. He is one in every of a handful of coaches to have two athletes in The Bowerman, collegiate monitor & area’s highest honor (Ngoni Makusha in 2011 and Trey Cunningham in 2022). 

His squads had been spectacular within the classroom as nicely, with the 2010 males’s cross nation and 2011 males’s outside monitor & area groups each being named USTFCCCA National Scholar Teams of the Year. Three of his athletes had been named USTFCCCA National Scholar Athletes of the Year – Kim Williams (2009 outside girls’s area), Colleen Quigley (2015 outside girls’s monitor) and Cunningham (2022 indoor males’s monitor).

His teaching honors embody three consecutive USTFCCCA NCAA Division I males’s outside monitor & area National Coach of the Year awards (2006-08). Across all sports activities, he has been named NCAA Division I South Region Coach of the Year 18 occasions and convention Coach of the Year 35 occasions (27 ACC, 6 Metro, 2 Conference USA). He was inducted into the Track & Field Hall of Fame of Florida in 2009 and the Florida State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2025.