Biography

Braica attended St. Agnes High School from 1980–82 and Bishop Ford

Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School

Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York. It is located within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.-Background:...

 in Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

 from 1982–84. Braica went on to Queens College

Queens College, City University of New York

Queens College, located in Flushing, Queens, New York City, is one of the senior colleges of the City University of New York. It is also the fifth oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning. The college's seventy seven acre campus is located in the heart of the...

 and played for the Knights from 1984–88 as a point guard. At Queens College, Braica met Norm Roberts

Norm Roberts

Norman Roberts is a men's college basketball coach. He is currently an assistant coach at Florida and is the former head coach of the St. John's Red Storm...

 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

St. Francis Terriers men's basketball

The St. Francis Terriers men's basketball team represents St. Francis College, which is located in Brooklyn Heights, New York. The St. Francis College’s men's basketball program was founded in 1896 and is the oldest collegiate program in New York City. The program had players on the court only 5...

 posted a 118-83 record, including an 88-42 mark in the Northeast Conference

Northeast Conference

The Northeast Conference is a college athletic conference whose schools are members of the NCAA. The NCAA designates the Northeast Conference to the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision for Division I Men's Football and to Division I Sports for all other sports.Founded in 1981 as the ECAC-Metro...

.

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.

St. Francis College

On April 29, 2010, Glenn Braica was announced as the 17th head coach in the history of the St. Francis College men’s basketball program. He replaced Brian Nash

Brian Nash

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, 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. Under Braica, Akeem Bennett became the first Terrier selected to the NBA D-League.

Head coaching record