Gloria Bradley brings 18 years of NCAA head coaching experience to the Chicago State bench as she joins the CSU staff as the Cougars’ assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the women’s basketball program for the 2013-14 season.
 
Before coming to Chicago State, Bradley spent 11 seasons as the head coach at NCAA Division II Wayne State in Detroit, Mich. She won 126 games and helped produce two All-Americans, 15 all-conference players, seven all-conference defensive team members and four 1,000-point scorers. Her teams qualified for seven Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournaments. In 2003, she guided Wayne State to the program’s first NCAA Tournament appearance and received the school’s Outstanding Contributor Award in 2003. In 2010, Bradley received the Judy Sweet Award at the NCAA Women’s Coaches Academy.
 
Prior to her time at Wayne State, Bradley spent seven seasons at NCAA Division III Montclair State University (1993-2000). She directed Montclair State to Eastern College Athletic Conference championships in 1994, 1997 and 1999. Her 1995 squad won the school’s first New Jersey Athletic Conference Championship and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Bradley spent one season (1992-93) as an assistant at Montclair State before taking over the program. Before arriving at Montclair State, she was an assistant at Seton Hall from 1985-87.
 
Before her coaching career, she was a standout basketball player at Seton Hall University. A four-year letter winner and a 1984 First Team All-Big East Conference player, Bradley ranks in the top five for field goal percentage (1^st), blocks (2^nd) and rebounds (3^rd). She also is in the top 15 in field goals (11^th), steals (12^th) and scoring (13^th). She was named the New Jersey Player of the Year in 1984. Her play at Seton Hall lead her to get drafted by the Atlanta Comets of the Women’s American Basketball Association.
 
Along with her bachelor’s degree in secondary education/mathematics from Seton Hall in 1984, Bradley earned her master’s degree in administration and supervision from Montclair State in 2000.