Glenn Braica
| Sport(s) | Basketball |
|---|---|
| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | St. Francis Brooklyn |
| Conference | NEC |
| Record | 102–118 (.464) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
September 16, 1964 Brooklyn, New York |
| Alma mater | Queens College |
| Playing career | |
| 1984–1988 | Queens College |
| Position(s) | Point guard / Shooting guard |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1988–1989 | New York City Tech (asst.) |
| 1989–2004 | St. Francis (NY) (asst.) |
| 2004–2010 | St. John's (asst.) |
| 2010–present | St. Francis Brooklyn |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| NEC regular season championship (2015) | |
| Awards | |
| Peter J. Carlesimo Coach of the Year (2015) 2× NEC Coach of the Year (2012, 2015) 2× NABC District 18 Coach of the Year (2012, 2015) |
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Glenn Braica (born September 16, 1964) is the men's basketball head coach at St. Francis College since 2010. Braica was born in Brooklyn, New York and is an alumnus of Bishop Ford High School and Queens College. Braica began his head coaching career at St. Francis College in 2010 and had 22 years of coaching experience at the time split between New York City Tech, St. Francis and St. John's as an assistant coach. Since becoming the 17th head coach in the programs history in 2010, Braica has reached the Northeast Conference Tournament each of his 6 years and produced a 98–91 overall record and a 65–41 conference record.
Braica attended St. Agnes High School from 1980–82 and Bishop Ford in Brooklyn from 1982–84. Braica went on to Queens College and played for the Knights from 1984–88 as a point guard. At Queens College, Braica met Norm Roberts and became great friends; that would later lead to Roberts hiring Braica as his assistant at St. John's University. Prior to St. Johns's, Braica was an assistant coach for Ron Ganulin at St. Francis College, where in Braica's last seven years, the Terriers posted a 118-83 record, including an 88-42 mark in the Northeast Conference.
Other notable accomplishments during Braica's tenure as an assistant at St. Francis include finishing with a .500 or better record in the league seven straight years, at that time the longest active streak in the league. They also reached the NEC semi-finals five times and had two championship game appearances in Braica's last five seasons. While at St. John's, Braica helped lead the Red Storm to two NIT bids as an assistant coach.
On April 29, 2010, Glenn Braica was announced as the 17th head coach in the history of the St. Francis Terriers men's basketball program. He replaced Brian Nash, who resigned for personal reasons on April 7, 2010. In Braica's first season as head coach, the Terriers qualified for the NEC tournament as the 5th seed. They then lost in the first round of the NEC Tournament to Central Connecticut State 62–64. Under Braica, Akeem Bennett became the first Terrier selected to the NBA D-League. In Braica's first year, the Terriers increased their scoring by more than six points per game from the previous season and were one of the best teams in the country in taking care of the basketball, averaging a conference-low 13.3 turnovers per game. The team also led the NEC with 7.80 steals per game.
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