Nicolas Acosta enters his first season as an assistant coach with the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps cross country program in 2025.
Acosta spent the last year a distance coach at local Bonita High School, his alma mater, where he was the head cross country coach and assisted with the track and field program. He led his boys' cross country team to the CIF finals, and took the girls' team to the CIF prelims as well, with an average 30-second drop in time for all of his cross country runners.
During his college career, Acosta ran for four years at Azusa Pacific on both the cross country and track and field teams from 2020-24, competing at the NCAA Division II level. At Bonita High School, he served as team captain.
Acosta graduated from Azusa Pacific with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology.
