Head Coach Randy Crady

Coach Crady is in his third year as head coach of the Eureka College men’s and women’s soccer teams.  He was hired in the spring of 2006 to officially bring back soccer to the EC campus.  Crady built the programs from scratch, led them at the club level in the fall of 2006 and now will coach them at the NCAA level for the second season this year.

A Metamora, Illinois native, Coach Crady guided the Eureka women’s soccer team to a 7-10 record in its inaugural season in 2007.  The Red Devils’ .412 winning percentage was easily the highest among the seven first-year Division III women’s soccer programs that season.

Crady has been around the sport of soccer for many years.  He served as an official for 25 years, working the state tournament on seven occasions.  He was an assistant coach for the boy’s and girl’s squads for five years at Metamora High School and coached the Metamora Select U14 girls travel team for two years.  He has also worked at numerous camps at Bradley and Northern Illinois University.

With the rank of Sergeant Major, Crady retired in 1997 after 24 years in the U.S. Army Reserves in 1997.  He served at the Peoria Public Schools Youth Farm for 36 years prior to starting his time at Eureka.  Crady graduated from Bradley University with a bachelor’s degree in speech education and earned a master’s degree from Illinois State in 1980.  He was later inducted into Bradley’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.  As a Brave, he played basketball and track.  In 2007, he was named to the All-Centennial Team by the Missouri Valley Conference and a member of the league’s track and field team.