Lawrence Brenneman enters his 3rd season at FGCU in 2017-18 as the Coordinator of Video Operations. A long-time Division-I assistant coach, Brenneman spent eight years in that role at Western Kentucky before joining FGCU, and prior to that was an assistant coach at Binghamton for eight years.

In 2016-17, FGCU posted a 26-8 record, matching the program’s Division-I single-season wins record and securing the first single-digit loss campaign in the D-I era. The Eagles set a D-I program record for regular-season wins with 23, and finished the ASUN slate at 12-2 for a program-best .857 winning percentage.
 
Those 12 wins were enough for FGCU to claim its first outright ASUN regular-season title in program history (second overall; shared in 2013-14), and followed it up with a second-straight ASUN Tournament Championship. The Eagles played their sixth NCAA Tournament game in five seasons after receiving a program-best No. 14 seed and fell just short to No. 3 seed Florida State – the second-tallest team in the nation in 2016-17 – 86-80.

In his first year with FGCU in 2015-16, Brenneman was part of the Eagles' third-straight 20-win season (21-14) as the Green and Blue won their second Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament Championship in four years. FGCU won its third NCAA Tournament game in four years with a 96-65 victory over 16th-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson in the First Four – with the 31-point margin of victory in that round of the tournament being the largest in NCAA history.
 
The Eagles would go on to face top-seeded North Carolina in the First Round and trailed by just one at halftime, 41-40, before falling to the eventual national runner-up Tar Heels in Raleigh, 83-67.
 
After finishing tied for 2nd place in the A-Sun regular season with an 8-6 record, FGCU received the 4th seed in the A-Sun Tournament and won three games in six days – including a 33-point rout at top-seeded North Florida in the semifinals – to win the title.

While at WKU, Brenneman helped lead the Hilltoppers to five 20-win seasons, Sun Belt Conference East Division and Tournament championships in 2009, two other tournament championships in 2012 and 2013 and wins in the 2009 and 2012 NCAA Tournaments.

Brenneman came to WKU with 20 years of experience in the coaching profession, including a dozen at the collegiate level. At Binghamton, he helped the Bearcats to 105 victories as they transitioned from the Division II to Division I level.

Prior to his time at Binghamton, Brenneman spent four seasons as an assistant at Seward County Community College in Kansas, helping the Saints to a 98-38 mark including a berth in the semifinals of the 1998 National Junior College Athletic Association Tournament. The team finished 35-3 after claiming the NJCAA Region VI Tournament Championship. The victory total is still the highest in school history.

Brenneman also has nine years of experience as a head coach at the high school level, leading Andover High School in Kansas to an 88-34 record from 1990-96, with the school qualifying for the state tournament in his final season, while posting a 48-16 mark in two years at Wichita High School. He was also an assistant coach at Tabor College in Kansas during the 1986-87 campaign, helping the school to a 19-7 finish.

A 1985 graduate of Geneva College (Pa.), Brenneman earned NAIA All-America honors on the court after being selected a Kodak All-American and all-state twice at Hillsboro High School in Kansas. He went on to earn his Master’s degree from Wichita State in 1992.