Bio

The incredible coaching career of Andrea Bradley began in the fall of 1991 at Goucher, where the 23-year old Bradley came to campus after earning her Bachelor’s Degree from Delaware in 1989 and a Master’s Degree from Northern Illinois in 1991. The programs Bradley inherited that season was, shall we say, low on numbers.

In the 1991 field hockey season, Bradley coached a team with just seven players (normally you start 11 in field hockey). Somehow, Bradley led the team to a pair of victories that first season, and from there, led both programs to their longest period of success in the history of the school.

First, in 1992, Bradley was named the NCAA Division III South Region Coach of the Year after leading the Gophers to a 12-7 season. After a 10-7-1 campaign in 1993, Bradley led the Gophers to their best season in program history at that point in 1994, as the squad finished with a 15-4-1 record, won their first Capital Athletic Conference Championship, and qualified for their first NCAA Tournament bid.

As the lacrosse coach, Bradley had similar success, culminating with a 13-1 1995 season in which the Gophers won their first CAC title. After the lacrosse season, Bradley left Goucher for an assistant coaching position at the University of Iowa, ending her tenure with a 28-24 mark in lacrosse and a 39-25-2 ledger in field hockey over four seasons.

Since then, Bradley has gone on to become one of the best field hockey coaches in the country.

As an assistant at Iowa, the Hawkeyes won two Big Ten Championships. After a four-year stint at Maryland as an assistant (where the Terrapins won the NCAA Division I national title in 1999), Bradley took over the head coaching job at Richmond.

After a successful six-year stint at Richmond (2001-2006) where she won two Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year awards and led the Spiders to five straight Atlantic 10 titles, Bradley was named the head coach at Syracuse in 2007. She will enter her 12th season as the head coach of the Orange in 2018.

At Syracuse, she has led her team to the NCAA Tournament in 10 straight seasons, culminating with a National Championship in 2015, the first for a women's team at Syracuse in school history. She's also been named the NFHCA National Coach of the Year twice (2008 and 2015), Big East Coach of the Year four times and ACC Coach of the Year once.