Assistant Coach Randy Crady

No stranger to the Eureka College athletics department, Randy Crady will join the women’s basketball coaching staff for the first time in 2009-10.  Crady has served as the only head coach for the men’s and women’s soccer teams since the Red Devils began fielding a team at the NCAA Division III level in the fall of 2007.

Crady graduated from Bradley University in 1972 with a bachelor’s degree in speech education and earned a master’s degree from Illinois State in 1980.  As a Brave, he played basketball and track and was inducted into Bradley’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.  In 2007, he was named to the All-Centennial Team by the Missouri Valley Conference as a member of the league’s track and field team.

With the rank of Sergeant Major, Crady retired in 1997 after 24 years in the U.S. Army Reserves.  He served at the Peoria Public Schools Youth Farm for 35 years prior to starting his time at Eureka.

Crady resides in Germantown Hills with his wife, Trish.  They have three children, Michael (25), David (22) and Annette (19).  Michael serves as an assistant coach on Crady’s soccer staff and David will return for his third season on the EC soccer team in 2010.