Ben Gall completed his fourth season as the associate head cross country and distance coach at NNU in the 2021-22 academic year.
He spent the previous six years at California Baptist in Riverside, Calif. Prior to CBU, Gall coached at NNU for 11 years from 2002-11.
At Cal Baptist, Gall coached the cross country teams to 11 PacWest Conference Championships, including six in a row on the men's side and five on the women's. He is a seven-time PacWest Cross Country Coach of the Year and coached seven individual PacWest champions.
In his time at Cal Baptist, there were 61 All-PacWest cross country runners, eight All-West Region runners and three All-American runners on the men's side. On the women's side, there were 10 All-West Region runners and four All-Americans. In 2017-18, both of Gall's programs qualified for nationals with the men taking fifth and the women third.
On the track, Gall coached six national champions, 33 All-Americans, 18 individual conference champions and 50 all-conference performances.
He is a USATF Level 2 certified distance coach. Under his guidance NNU athletes received 17 NCAA II Performance All-American honors, set more than 20 school records, 45 GNAC All-Conference honors, and won two NCAA II national titles.
Gall coached Ashley Puga to NCAA titles in the 800 meters both indoors and outdoors in 2009. She recorded the sixth fastest time ever for an NCAA II athlete when she ran 2:05.23 at the Mt. Sac Relays. Puga won the 2009 NCAA II Track Athlete of the Year and was a finalist for NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Gall graduated in 2002 from Eastern Oregon University with a double major in Psychology and Multidisciplinary Studies and earned his Master’s degree in Education from Eastern the following year. Ben also teaches in the NNU kinesiology department.
Ben and his wife Rachel have three sons and live in Nampa.
