Entering the 2025 season, Brandon Bouma is in his ninth year on the Valley City State University football coaching staff. After working his first three seasons as a graduate assistant with the running backs, Bouma was promoted to Recruiting Coordinator and Running Backs Coach in 2020. He continues in those roles while also coaching the tight end position, which he added in 2024.
Bouma has helped develop several of the program’s most productive skill position players in recent years. Tight end Trent Finney earned All-Conference Honorable Mention during the 2024 season — Bouma’s first year working with the position group.
Running back Justice Bice was a three-time All-Conference selection from 2021–23, including 1st Team honors in 2021 after totaling 1,231 all-purpose yards and eight touchdowns, helping the Vikings average 127 rushing yards per game. In the abbreviated 2020 season, freshman running back Taylor Simmons was named 2nd Team All-Conference, rushing for 516 yards and three touchdowns in just seven games.
Bouma also coached standout running back Louis Quinones, who led the NAIA in rushing yards per game and all-purpose yards per game in 2019 and received Honorable Mention All-American recognition. Quinones graduated as VCSU’s all-time leading rusher with 3,530 career rushing yards. In 2018, he earned 2nd Team All-Conference honors while contributing to a rushing offense that ranked 32nd nationally (177 yards per game).
As Recruiting Coordinator, Bouma has supported the expansion of VCSU’s recruiting reach across the Upper Midwest and nationally — including strong pipelines in Minnesota, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest — while helping guide the program into the Frontier Conference, recognized as one of the most physical conferences in the NAIA.
A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Bouma completed his collegiate playing career at Presentation College in Aberdeen, S.D., earning a bachelor’s degree in Business – Sports Administration. He later received a Master of Arts in Teaching from Valley City State University.
