Forest Braden
Forest Braden

Player Profile
Position:
Assistant Coach

Experience:
4th Season

Alma Mater:
Boise State '07

11/15/2012

Bruins Run For An NCAA Championship

Received one of thirteen at-large bids.

11/14/2012

Four Bruins Earn USTFCCCA All-Region Honors

Quad earn honors after performance at West Regional.

11/07/2012

Bruins Head to Seattle for NCAA Regionals

Bruins cross country squads will face off in the 2012 NCAA West Regional competition in Seattle, WA.

10/27/2012

UCLA Men and Women Finish Fifth and Sixth at Pac-12 Championships

The men claim fifth overall and the women take sixth at the Pac-12 Championships Saturday in Santa Clarita, CA

10/07/2011

Q&A With Cross Country Coach Forest Braden

UCLA men's cross country team is ranked in Top 25 nationally.

10/25/2011

UCLA Cross Country at Notre Dame Invite

Images from UCLA's competition at the 2011 Notre Dame Invite in South Bend on Sept. 30th.

Forest Braden enters his fourth year with the Bruins and continues to serve as the primary cross country coach.

During the 2011 season, Kent Morikawa led the men's squad for most of the year, earning All-Pac-12 honors with his eighth-place finish at the conference meet. The men's team finished fourth at Pac-12s and tied for sixth at the West Region, while the women were 10th in the conference and 18th at regionals.

The Bruin cross country teams have seen much improvement under the guidance of Braden during his first three years at UCLA.

Before joining the Bruins, Braden served as a volunteer coach at at Gonzaga, where he worked closely with standout distance coach Pat Tyson in recruiting and facilitating training sessions.

Prior to his coaching stint at Gonzaga, Braden was a three-time All-American runner for coach Mike Maynard at Boise State from 2002-2007, earning accolades in indoor and outdoor track as well as cross country. He also won seven Western Athletic Conference titles as a Bronco.

Braden also ran for Team Indiana Elite for one year and placed in the top-10 in five USATF Championship meets. In 2011, he started competing again on the track, primarily in the 5000m.

Braden will be joined by fellow assistant Johnny Gray to coach the men's and women's cross country teams this season.

Bank of the West CLick for Bruin Video

Cross Country