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Former OSU player Trent Bray on Arizona State sideline (Gazette Times/Sept. 30, 2010)
Trent Bray returns to ASU football for his second season as Linebackers coach.
In Bray's first year as Linebackers coach, he tutored linebacker Vontaze Burfict to Pac-10 Defensive MVP, as well as Second Team All-Pac-10 honors. Bray also had the top two leading tacklers on the team in Burfict and Brandon Magee in 2010.
Bray enjoyed a stellar playing career at Oregon State University. A member of Dennis Erickson's 2001 signing class, Bray was a standout linebacker for the Beavers from 2002-2005, staring 34 of 49 career games. As a junior in 2004, he collected 122 tackles and was named Second-Team All-Pacific-10 Conference. He also earned Insight Bowl Defensive MVP honors by making an Oregon State-bowl record 10 tackles in a victory over Notre Dame. He was selected co-captain of the Beaver football team as a senior, and he backed it up with another terrific season, recording 116 tackles and earning First-Team all-Pac-10 honors. Bray finished his collegiate career with 337 tackles, the sixth-highest total in Oregon State history, 29.0 tackles for loss and 10.5 quarterback sacks while making 33 consecutive starts over his final three seasons in Corvallis.
He then moved on to the National Football League, where he spent time with the Miami Dolphins and the Houston Texans.
Bray was as an assistant coach (linebackers/quality control) for the California Redwoods of the United Football League in 2009.
