Brandon Hazouri

Biography

Hazouri joined Wake Forest in July 2021, since then 16 Demon Deacons brought home All-ACC honors, led by ACC Outdoor Champion Thomas Vanoppen (1500m). Five Wake Forest athletes advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships: Anna Bush (heptathlon), Emma Soderstrom (high jump), Zach Facioni (5000m), Tony Jones (high jump) and Vanoppen (1500m). Vanoppen is the first Wake Forest outdoor All-American since Robert Heppenstall in 2018 and the first 1500-meter All-American since Kyle Graves in 2015, second 1500-meter All-American in school history. He has helped the men's cross country team grab three top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including a fifth-place finish in 2022. Additionally, he led the squad to the 2022 & 2025 ACC Championships. He has also coached five All-Americans in cross country so far during his tenure. As the lead recruiting coordinator for men's cross country, Hazouri has brought in the No. 7 class in 2022, No. 4 class in 2023 and No. 3 class in 2024. As an event coach for track & field, he helped Rynard Swanepoel break the program record in the 800m (1:45.28) for outdoors as well as the third-best time indoors. Swanepoel has been ACC runner-up twice in the event as well as a two-time All-American. Other top 10 records achieved under Hazouri include: - Jack Balick #2 All time indoors. #4 Outdoors (1:47.11) - Dillon Aryeh #9 All time indoors. #6 Outdoors - Emma Douglass #3 All time indoors. Coach Hazouri most recently served as head cross country and assista