Soka University

2024-2025 Season
Bravo placed 4th at the Cal Pac Men’s Cross Country Championships with a time of 26:05.2. He competed at the NAIA Cross Country National Championships, finishing 206th with a time of 25:53.6. Earlier in the season, Bravo placed 25th at the Biola Invitational (25:29.7), 39th at the Cougar Challenge (25:33.3), and 40th at The Master’s University Invitational (25:32.6). He also placed 20th at the Seawolf Invitational 4-mile race with a time of 22:03.5. Bravo did not start at the Pomona-Pitzer XC Invite.

2022-2023 Season
Bravo opened the season competing in the 31^st Annual Vanguard Invitational 8k with a time of 28:32.3…next competed in the Cougar Challenge 2022 8k and 2022 Pomona-Pitzer XC Invitational 8k with times of 28:09.4 and 27:30.0…also competed in the Jessup Warrior invitational 8k with a time of 27:01.7…competed in the California Pacific Conference Cross Country Championships in the 4.97M event, finishing with a time of 26:34.3…Bravo closed out the Cross Country season at the NAIA Cross Country Championships, competing in the 8k and setting a personal record with a time of 26:38.5…held a job on campus as a library assistant, RA Translation, and at the REHR Center…named Cross Country Athlete of the Year and recipient of the Lions Heart Award.

2021-2022 Season
Competed in the SD Mesa XC Invite College Open setting a college best time of 23:23.3 in the 4M…Bravo competed in the Titan Invite 8k event, also setting a college best of 26:59.8…he also participated in the Soka Indoor Qualifier competing in the 3000 and setting another college best of 9:31.95…at the Ross and Sharon Irwin Meet, Bravo competed in the 1500 and set a personal college best of 4:15.01 in the 1500…also competed in the Cal State LA Twilight 5000 and set a college best time of 15:54.39…Jordan closed out the season at the 2022 California Pacific Conference Championships, competing in the 10,000 and finishing with a college best time of 33:48.51...placed 3^rd at the Cal Pac Conference Championships in the 5000m… served as a member of the SDG’s Club…held a job as a Library Assistant and a Soka All-Sports Camp counselor.

High School
Graduated from AAE…three-sport athlete playing on varsity for three years of Cross Country, Soccer, and Track & Field for the Knights…3x qualifier for the CIF Prelims for Cross Country…2x qualifier for CIF Finals in Cross Country…helped his team to a first-place finish at the Mt. Sac Invitational during his first year.

Personal
Born in Pasadena, California and raised in Victorville, California…parents Sonia Bravo and Carlos Bravo…two siblings; Jacob and Joshua; Jacob is on the Cross Country team at Saint Mary’s College of California…considered attending UC Riverside before committing to attend Soka University of America…intends on concentrating in International Studies and studying Japanese at SUA…Bravo is fluent in Spanish…when not competing, Jordan enjoys skating.