Concordia-St. Paul Athletic Hall of Fame
Jessica (Lucia) Bray, a 5-9 right side/opposite hitter, from Plymouth, Minnesota, led Concordia to four straight NSIC regular season titles and four consecutive NCAA North Central Region Tournament title matches including a pair of region championships and a trip to the 2003 NCAA Division II National Championship match where the Bears finished national runner-up.
The Golden Bears won at least 32 matches in each of her four years, combining for a 130-15 overall record, setting the single-season wins record (36) during her senior year as well as a run to the NCAA Division II Elite Eight in her junior year. In conference play, (Lucia) Bray and the Golden Bears compiled a near-perfect 61-1 conference record to capture the first three NSIC Tournament Championships (2004, 2005, 2006) held by the league. In her four years, the Golden Bears would finish ranked second, seventh, fifth and fourth in the country in the AVCA Division II Top-25 Coaches’ Poll from her freshman to senior years, respectively.
(Lucia) Bray was the school's first two-time AVCA First Team All-America honoree and was also a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American. In 2006, she became the first Concordia student-athlete to earn First Team Academic All-America honors. She was a two-time NSIC Player of the Year and two-time Daktronics North Central Region Player of the Year. The three-time NSIC All-Academic student-athlete was selected DII Player of the Week twice in her career, once as a junior and once as a senior.
(Lucia) Bray averaged 4.88 kills per game as a senior in 2006, good for eighth in NCAA Division II, and added 3.21 digs that season for the Golden Bears. She ranked second in the conference in kills per set as a junior and senior, and third in hitting percentage each year.
(Lucia) Bray remains the only player in school history to accumulate both 1,500 kills (1,647) and 1,500 (1,542) digs for a career.
At present, she holds the CSP volleyball career record for service aces (165) and single season records for most kills (639, 2006) and points (750, 2006). She ranks fourth in career kills (1,647) and sixth in digs (1,542). Her junior and senior years still ranks as the top two seasons for total kills and points in a season, with 612 kills and 705.5 points as a junior in 2005.
After earning her education degree, (Lucia) Bray has excelled in her business career with Engel & Völkers of Minneapolis as Director of Finance where she specializes in accounting, transaction management and billing for the high-end real estate firm. Before joining Engel & Völkers, she spent seven years in the reinsurance industry.
(Lucia) Bray resides in Minnetonka with her husband, Geoff who was a pitcher for the CSP baseball team (2005 & 2006). They have three children, Gianna, Bennett and Donny.
