A former standout for Bradley Men's Golf, the 2025-26 season marks Ethan Brue's second full season and third overall as an assistant coach with the program.
Brue returned to Bradley in January 2024 as an assistant coach before adding duties as the program's Recruiting Coordinator before the 2025-26 season.
After his graduation from Bradley in 2018, Brue has played professionally while pursuing his PGA Tour Card. During that time, he won six times on various mini tours across the country. Brue also served as the Assistant Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at Illinois Central College for three seasons from 2018-2021 under former Bradley Golf Head Coach Bo Ryan.
Brue played two seasons at ICC before transferring to Bradley. He was a two-time NJCAA All-American performer while leading the Cougars to two national championship berths in 2015 and 2016. Brue won a school record seven times at ICC and owns the ICC career scoring average record of 73.5 strokes per round.
Coming to the Hilltop prior to the 2016-17 season, Brue won a school record five times in two seasons, including winnign a record-tying three tournaments in 2016-17, and helped lead the Braves to the program's only Missouri Valley Conference title in 2018. Brue earned All-MVC honors in both seasons for the Braves and won MVC Newcomer of the Year award for the 2016-17 season. Brue also holds the second-lowest career scoring average in program history of 73.31 strokes per round. Brue also won six MVC Golfer of the Week awards in his brief tenure.