Kraft was introduced as ASU's head coach on July 28, 1996.
Career Coaching Highlights:
- Entering 22nd year as the Director of Track & Field at ASU
- Since 2004-05, won four national titles, three Pac-10/12 crowns and 12 total Top-4 finishes at NCAA Championship events (including cross country); account for 12 of the 19 Top-4 showings in program history
- Athletes at ASU have won 33 individual national titles
- Second-longest tenured coach in ASU track & field history (Baldy Castillo leads the way with 26)
- 4x USTFCCCA National Coach of the Year; 3x Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year
- 2x USTFCCCA Female All-Academic Team of the Year
Top Athletes Coached:
- Jacquelyn Johnson (ASU) -- 7x National Champion (3x pentathlon, 4x heptathlon) & only fourth female to win four titles in same event, 2008 Olympian, 9x All-American, 10x conference champion, Honda Award finalist, holds top-10 all-time marks in ASU history in 10 events
- Dwight Phillips (ASU) -- 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist in long jump (finished 8th at the 2000 Olympics), 4x World Champion in long jump, 7x All-American & 6x conference champion in two years at ASU, inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in 2010, holds top-10 all-time marks at ASU in seven events
- Bryan McBride (ASU) -- 2017 USATF Outdoor high jump champion, 2014 NCAA high jump champion, 8x All-American & 3x conference champion, broke the 38-year-old ASU record in high jump
- Chris Benard (ASU) -- 2016 Rio Olympian, placed 3rd in triple jump at the 2016 U.S. Trials, 4x All-American & 3x conference champion, indoor & outdoor ASU triple jump record holder, broke 30-year-old outdoor record
- Christabel Nettey (ASU) -- 2016 Rio Olympian, won the Canadian Trials in 2016, finished 4th in the long jump at the 2015 World Championships, 5x All-American & 6x conference champion, holds the indoor & outdoor long jump ASU records, holds top-10 mark in seven different events for ASU
- Tiffany Greer (ASU) -- 7x All-American & 5x conference champion in long jump
- Trevell Quinley (ASU) -- 2008 Olympian in long jump (18th), 3x All-American, holds No. 2 mark in the indoor and outdoor long jump on ASU all-time list behind Phillips
- Kenny Harrison (KSU) -- 1996 Olympic triple jump champion, 1991 World Champion in triple jump, 3x USATF Outdoor Champion in triple jump (1990, 1991 & 1997), 3x NCAA champion (school record), 11x All-American & 7x conference champion, first track & field athlete to be inducted into the Kansas State Hall of Fame
COACHING EXPERIENCE (38 Seasons)
Arizona State University - Director of Track & Field/Cross Country, 1996-Present
University of South Carolina - Head Coach, 1989-96
University of Virginia - Assistant Coach, 1985-89
Kansas State - Assistant Coach, 1981-85
Indiana State - Assistant Coach, 1980-81
Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo - Graduate Assistant, 1979-80
Kraft is married to the former Maggie Keyes of Mill Valley, Calif. Maggie is a former collegiate record-setting miler who won AIAW, TAC and Millrose Games titles. She was also a member of the USA's first-ever World Championship team in 1983. The Krafts have two sons, Kyle and Cory, who both graduated from ASU.