Cornell Elite Basketball Academy

Brent Brase
Head Coach/Co-Director

Brase (pronounced BRA-zee) enters his third season at the helm of the women’s program. The team made huge strides during his initial season, improving the win total by seven games, setting six school records and instilling enthusiasm, passion and dedication into the program.

Brase, a 1990 Cornell graduate, spent 11 seasons coaching at Coe College (Iowa), where he left as the winningest coach in school history. Coe was 90-50 in Iowa Conference games his final seven seasons.

Before leading the Coe men’s basketball program, Brase served as an assistant men’s coach at both Cornell and Coe and as the head boys’ basketball coach at Anamosa (Iowa) High School. Brase helped guide the 1990-91 Kohawks to a south division tournament berth and the 1993-94 Rams to the Midwest Conference Championship and the NCAA Division III tournament. In two years at Anamosa, Brase compiled a record of 27-13 and was named Big Bend Coach of the Year in 1991-92.

Brase is a 1986 graduate of Wapsie Valley (Iowa) High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education and secondary education from Cornell in 1990. He received a master’s degree in physical education from the University of Iowa in 1992.

Brase’s teams play stifling man-to-man defense and run on every make or miss. He has implemented defensive and offensive schemes to compliment one another by putting maximum pressure on the opponents for an entire game. In order to achieve this, his teams execute simple fundamentals at an extreme pace in practice — a pace their opponents haven’t trained for and cannot handle mentally and physically during the duration of a game.

Brase and his wife, Ann, a 1990 Cornell graduate, live in Mount Vernon with their three children: Ella (6), Owen (4) and Evan (2).