Former Assumption Men’s Ice Hockey Head Coach Lance Brady, 48, passed away on February 5, after battling cancer. In his 10 years as coach, Lance won 99 games, helping to lead the team back to prominence in the Northeast-10 Conference and ultimately winning the program’s first NE10 Championship in the 2016–17 season. He was selected the NE10 Coach of the Year three times while coaching two of the last three NE10 Players of the Year and the 2017–18 NE10 Defenseman of the Year. In his final season with the program, Assumption went 15-10-2, its highest win percentage in over 20 years.
Lance’s teams excelled in the classroom and were committed to community service, holding special awareness games to raise financial resources for important causes, which over the last three years alone raised over $10,000.
Lance was a standout hockey player in his own right at nearby College of the Holy Cross, where he earned ECAC East All-Star honors and served as a captain his senior season. Following his time at Holy Cross, he played with multiple teams in the ECHL, AHL, and IHL, including the 1997–98 season with the Birmingham Bulls of the ECHL where he was an all-conference performer as well as an assistant coach with the team.
