George Fox University

Brandon Rupp joined the Bruins' athletic staff in the fall of 2019 and enters his fourth year with the Bruins in 2022-23. Rupp serves an assistant coach for the Bruins' baseball pitching staff and also works with the deparment as the director of game management.

In his first season as the Bruins' pitching coach, the Bruins' starting rotation tallied 96 K's in 15 games during the 2020 COVID-19-shortened season and posted a 3.38 ERA in 82.2 innings of work from the three starters. As a whole, Rupp's pitching staff averaged better than nine punchouts per game and a staff ERA of 4.00 in 135.0 total innings of work. 

A 2006 alumnus of the university, he worked the previous two years as an assistant baseball coach at Lewis & Clark College in Portland while also running his own business, the Yard Baseball Academy, for which he served as lead instructor at the venture from 2008 to 2021. He also gained coaching experience as an assistant baseball coach at George Fox from 2006 to 2012. Brandon played baseball for the Bruins from 2004 to 2006 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He lives in Tigard with his wife Kristine and their daughter, Finley.