2015 (Senior Year): Earned the team’s Most Improved Player award … Repeated as the NSU Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year … Also garnered a spot on the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete team and the Virginia Sports Information Director’s (VaSID) Academic All-State team for the third year in a row … Member of the MEAC All-Academic Team and the AD’s Honor Roll … Posted a 5-14 overall singles record, including 1-4 in MEAC play … Played in all but one match at No. 2 singles, with wins over Delaware, Hampton and North Carolina A&T … Won three of his last four singles matches of the season … Also posted a team-best 9-6 doubles record, which included a perfect 4-0 MEAC mark … Dropped his first six doubles matches of the season before winning the last nine … Picked up victories over tandems from Florida A&M, Bethune-Cookman, Richmond, Longwood, Hampton, North Carolina Central and N.C. A&T … Went 5-3 at No. 3 doubles as well as 3-3 at No. 2 and 1-0 at No. 1 … Won all five of his matches teamed up with Daniel Grauel, three of them in conference … Posted a 4-3 record with Shaheed Mourillon-Swift, including victories in the last four matches … Also played in three matches with Alex Killam at the beginning of the year.
2014 (Junior Year): Named to the MEAC All-Academic Team and the AD’s Honor Roll … Earned a spot on the ITA Scholar-Athlete team and the VaSID Academic All-State team for the second straight year … The NSU Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year … Posted a 9-9 singles record, including a 2-2 mark in conference play … Picked up wins against Georgetown, Longwood, North Carolina Central and Bethune-Cookman twice … Won four of the last five singles matches of the season … Went 0-1 at the No. 2 position, 5-5 at the No. 3 spot and 4-3 at the fourth singles position … Was 10-6 in doubles competition, competing mainly at the No. 2 spot with teammate Robin Riethmueller … Had wins over Binghamton, Longwood, James Madison, Georgetown, Hampton and Bethune-Cookman twice … Went 7-6 at the No. 2 position and 3-0 at the No. 1 slot … Also posted a 1-2 record in conference play.
2013 (Sophomore Year): Named to the ITA Scholar-Athlete team … Also garnered a spot on the VaSID Academic All-State team and the AD’s Honor Roll … Went 8-11 overall singles record, including 2-1 in conference play … Posted wins over Hampton, South Carolina State, Bethune-Cookman, Coppin State and UMES … Competed at the No. 1 (2-5), the No. 2 (4-3) and the No. 3 (2-3) spots in singles play … Also had an 11-9 doubles mark, including 1-2 in MEAC play … Went 11-8 competing with teammate Robin Riethmueller … Also competed with Samuel Lemberger once during the season … Had an 8-8 mark at the No. 2 doubles slot … Also went 2-1 at the No. 1 and 1-0 at the No. 3 position … Earned victories over Hampton (twice), North Carolina Central, Coppin State, UMES, Richmond and Florida A&M … Won his last six doubles matches of the year.
2012 (Freshman Year): Named the MEAC Rookie of the Year, the first for NSU since 2006 … A two-time MEAC Rookie of the Week selection, on Feb. 9 and then again on March 22 … The team’s Rookie of the Year … Posted a 13-12 overall singles record, including 2-2 in conference play … Also had a 7-14 doubles mark, 0-4 in MEAC play … Went 10-10 in singles action at the No. 3 position and 3-2 at the No. 2 spot … Won four matches in a row and 8-of-11 at one point during the season … Posted wins over Drexel, Hampton, North Carolina Central, LaSalle, Rider, Bethune-Cookman and Morgan State in singles play … Had a 2-7 mark at both the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles positions and also played in three matches at the No. 1 slot … Competed in nine matches with teammate Shaheed Mourillon-Swift … Also competed with Daniel Grauel, Christian Romanzini, Arsenio Culver and Kent Austin at various points during the year.
High School: Made the qualifying finals of an International Tennis Federation (ITA) futures event in 2009 … Won the championship at the Academia de Tenis Resort in Brasilia in 2007 … Also captured the title at the Itamirim Open in 2010.
Personal: Full name is Igor Henrique Nicacio Braga … Born on Nov. 29, 1992 … Son of Carla and Benoni Braga … Has one sister, Daniela … Member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), the NSU Honors College and Phi Alpha Sigma … Majoring in computer science with a minor in mathematics … Wants to become a software engineer … Enjoys going out, travelling and heading to the beach.
Braga's Career Record| Singles | Dual | MEAC | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 2012 | 13-12 | 2-2 | -- | 3-2 | 10-10 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2013 | 8-11 | 2-1 | 2-5 | 4-3 | 2-3 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2014 | 9-9 | 2-2 | -- | 0-1 | 5-5 | 4-3 | -- | -- |
| 2015 | 5-14 | 1-4 | -- | 5-13 | 0-1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Totals | 35-46 | 7-9 | 2-5 | 12-19 | 17-19 | 4-3 | -- | -- |
| Doubles | Dual | MEAC | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 7-14 | 0-4 | 3-0 | 2-7 | 2-7 |
| 2013 | 11-9 | 1-2 | 2-1 | 8-8 | 1-0 |
| 2014 | 10-6 | 1-2 | 3-0 | 7-6 | -- |
| 2015 | 9-6 | 4-0 | 1-0 | 3-3 | 5-3 |
| Totals | 37-35 | 6-8 | 9-1 | 20-24 | 8-10 |
