Trent Bray
Position: Assistant Coach - Linebackers
Hometown: Pullman, Wash.
High School: Pullman HS
Alma Mater: Oregon State
Graduating Year: 2005
Experience: 2 Years
Trent Bray Biography
Courtesy: Athletic Communications
Release: 06/01/2012
One of Oregon State’s top defensive players in the program’s history was promoted to full-time linebackers coach in January of 2013 after serving the 2012 season as a graduate assistant.
Bray helped Oregon State have the biggest turnaround from the 2011 season in the NCAA last year as the team improved by six victories and played in the Valero Alamo Bowl. His 2013 team features a solid nucleus of returning players, including returning team leader for tackles (83) two-year starter Michael Doctor.
Bray spent the 2009-11 seasons as the linebackers coach at Arizona State, the last two as full-time after serving 2009 as a graduate assistant. While with the Sun Devils, Bray coached 2010 Pac-10 second team linebacker Vontaze Burfict and 2011 Pac-12 honorable mention linebacker Colin Parker.
Bray started 34 of 49 career games at OSU, including 33 straight, and in 2004 was the Insight Bowl Defensive MVP after making 10 tackles in the victory over Notre Dame. He was a Pac-10 first team selection as a senior and second team as a junior. For his career he made 337 tackles, currently sixth in the OSU record book.
Following his OSU career, Bray signed free agent contracts with the Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans. He would later play for the Hamburg Sea Devils of the NFL Europe in 2007 and began his coaching career with the California Redwoods of the United Football League in 2009.
He was a two-time Great Northern League Defensive Player of the Year at Pullman High School in Washington and earned all-state honors twice. In addition to football, where he played tight end and linebacker, he was an all-league athlete in baseball and basketball.
Bray is the son of Craig Bray, a former OSU assistant football coach.
BRAY PROFILE
Assignment: Linebackers
Year at OSU: 2nd (1st as full-time)
Recruiting Area: Dallas, Fort Worth, Waco, East Texas, Palm Spring, Eastern Inland Empire
Hometown: Pullman, Washington
Education: Bachelor’s in sociology from Oregon State
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Oregon State, 2012-present (LB); Arizona State (LB), 2009-11; California Redwoods (2009); Hamburg Sea Devils – player (2007).
OSU HIGHLIGHTS
2012
D.J. Alexander (LB) – Pac-12 Player of the Week
Total Defense (354 yds p/g) – 3rd in Pac-12
Scoring Defense (20.6 pts) – 2nd in Pac-12
3rd-Down Pct. Defense (29.3%) – 6th in NCAA
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