Ron Forbes comes to the Mission Campus to work exclusively withthe Santa Clara University baseball program after serving as theDirector of Sports Performance at Stanford University from
2002-2009. His college baseball experience spans two College WorldSeries teams and five years directing the athletic development oftwo different nationally-ranked programs.
Forbes oversaw 35 NCAA Division I programs, including a BCSfootball team during his tenure at Stanford. He trained numerousNCAA Division I Championship teams and worked directly with severalcurrent and future US Olympic Team members. While on The Farm,Forbes had 22 studentathletes selected in the NFL Draft. He manageda staff of nine full-time strength and conditioning coaches,designing and implementing all aspects of strength and speeddevelopment, nutrition, off-season and pre-season training, testingand evaluation.
Forbes came to Stanford in April of 2002 after a seven-yearstint with the University of Florida strength and conditioningprogram, where he spent his final four years (1998-2002) at theschool as the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator. He was agraduate assistant and volunteer strength and conditioning coachwith the Gators in 1996 and 1997, following one season in 1995 asan undergraduate assistant for the Florida football program.
As a member of the Gators’ football program, Forbesparticipated in seven consecutive bowl games under head coach SteveSpurrier. In 1996, he was a member of the Gator squad that went12-1 and beat Florida State in the Sugar Bowl for the nationalchampionship. The Gators went 10-2 and defeated Penn State thefollowing season in the Citrus Bowl. In 1998, Florida finished 10-2after knocking off Syracuse in the Orange Bowl. The Gators went 9-4in 1999 and 10-3 in 2000 despite back-to-back bowl defeats toMichigan State and Miami. In his final season with the Gators in2001, Florida beat Maryland in the Orange Bowl.
Along with his responsibilities for the football program, Forbesalso worked with the Gators’ women’s soccer team from1998-2001. During this time, Florida won four straight SoutheasternConference titles and one NCAA championship (1998).
Forbes was a guest lecturer at the University of Florida Centerfor Exercise Science Symposium. Along with the Gators’ headstrength coach, Forbes also ran the Gator Speed and Strengthclinics.
He is a member of the National Strength and ConditioningAssociation and the American College of Sports Medicine. Forbes isalso a USA Weightlifting club coach.
A native of St. Petersburg, Florida, Forbes earned aBachelor’s degree in Exercise Science (Exercise Physiology)from the University of Florida in 1995.
Forbes and his wife, Emelda, have three sons: Zeno , Keanu andDalton.
