Andrew Bracy '15 returns to the men's lacrosse staff as an assistant coach during the 2025 campaign. He previously served as an assistant coach with the women's soccer, women's lacrosse, and men's lacrosse teams.
Bracy provides leadership as the team's face-off and transition coach and helping develop the face-off specialists and providing oversight on the team's rides and clears.
In the summer of 2020, he played in his first full professional season of Major League Lacrosse with the New York Lizards as one of the team's face-off specialists. He went 11-of-26 (.423) at the face-off X and picked up five groundballs.
One of the greatest face-off specialists in Norwich men's lacrosse history, Bracy made his return to Norwich after a two-year stint with the University of Vermont's men's lacrosse team as a volunteer assistant coach and a season spent with the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse.
Bracy appeared in 62 games and started 32 for the maroon and gold in his four years on campus, retiring with his name littering the all-time face-off records for the program's history. His senior season he posted a .743 face-off winning percentage, the highest single-season mark in program history, and his .669 career percentage is the third-highest of all-time just behind Nate Fortezzo '13 (.683) and recent alumni Joseph Santangelo '19 (.674).
Along with those two marks, Bracy ranks in the top-ten in single-season totals for face-off wins and winning percentage multiple times and his name appears in the top-ten for career totals in ground balls and face-off wins. He was a two-time All-Conference selection and was named to the 2015 GNAC All-Tournament team, and he also received NEILA Academic All-Region honors hand was selected for the NEILA East/West All-Star Game in his senior year.
In his four years in Northfield, Bracy and the Cadets made it to at least the conference semifinals each season and took home the title in 2013, the program's first conference championship. In August of 2018, Bracy was signed to the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse.
