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Dave Braine
Georgia Tech Director of Athletics
Feburary 21, 2002

A national leader in his field, Georgia Tech Director of Athletics Dave Braine has made a career out of building winners in athletics and academics. Now he's charged up about some building projects of another kind. Among the top priorities on Braine's drawing board of success are the renovation and expansion of Tech's athletic facilities including Russ Chandler Baseball Stadium Bobby Dodd Stadium at Grand Field with expansion to an approximate capacity of 55,000. Braine, 58, thus has taken the Tech Rambling Wreck into the new millennium in successful fashion, using the Yellow Jacket tradition as a guiding light along the way. He follows in the footsteps of four Tech greats of the past-John Heisman, William Alexander, Bobby Dodd and Dr. Homer Rice. Those four gentlemen proved to be tremendous winners and Braine certainly has followed suit.

Braine became Georgia Tech's director of Athletics on June 3, 1997, succeeding Rice, who retired after serving as Athletic Director from 1980 until 1997. This is a second tour of duty at Georgia Tech for Braine. He originally came to The Flats in 1974 as a defensive secondary coach on the football staff of Pepper Rodgers. Before coming to Tech, Braine was Athletic Director at Marshall and Virginia Tech. Indicative of his national prominence was Braine's 1995 appointment as chairman of the NCAA Special Events Committee.

A native of Grove City, PA, Braine earned both is bachelor's (1965) and master's degrees (1966) at the University of North Carolina, where he was a three-time football lettermen. Braine joined the VMI football staff as a freshman coach in the spring of 1967, later coaching at Richmond, Georgia Tech and Virginia. In 1978, he became assistant athletic director at Virginia and then held a similar position at Fresno State. It was from there that he moved on to be athletic director at Marshall.