Ron Bradley - Head Baseball Coach Head Baseball Coach Ron Bradley is a member of Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association (OBCA) Hall of Fame, Class of 2003.
Bradley’s Hillcats have posted a 134-105 record in five seasons as an NAIA-member institution. He and his wife Jill reside in Claremore. They have two grown children; Ryan, who is the associate athletic director for external relations at RSU, and Kayla, an elementary school teacher in Lawrence, Kan.
He began his collegiate coaching career at RSU in 2004 after compiling one of the most successful high school baseball coaching resumes in Oklahoma history. Most recently, Bradley was named the Oklahoma College Baseball Coach of the Year by his peers in January 2009. His career accomplishments include four state championships in four different classifications (2A, 4A, 5A, 6A), one state runner-up, and 11 regional championships. He tallied nearly 500 career victories in his 21 years as a head coach at the high school level and holds the unique distinction of winning the first baseball state championship at West Fork (Ark.), Claremore (Okla.), and Jenks (Okla.) high schools. Bradley took Claremore to the state championship game three different times and reached at least the semi-final round in all three seasons he coached at Class 6A power Jenks High School. Bradley has been selected Oklahoma Coach of the Year three times by The Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa World. He has also been honored with two National Region Coach of the Year Awards and is a five-time OBCA Coach of the Year. In 1998 he led the Oklahoma Senior Sunbelt team to its first ever Sunbelt Series Championship. Bradley also has been honored with coaching duties in the Oklahoma All-State game, Sooner State games, and numerous other all-star competitions. More than a dozen of Bradley’s former players have been selected in the Major League Baseball amateur draft, two of which have reached the big leagues. Bradley has been a keynote speaker at the state and national level and is highly regarded in the baseball coaching community for his philosophies on hitting and his ability to build championship programs. Bradley laid the foundation for athletics at RSU when he introduced club sports to the campus as the director of physical education in 2004. He later served as interim athletic director and remains instrumental in the development of RSU athletic programs. Bradley guided the Hillcats to their first winning season in 2007 with a 28-23 record. He followed that up with a 35-16 record in 2008 and a fourth place finish as a first-year member of the prestigious Sooner Athletic Conference. He achieved his 100th collegiate coaching victory in 2009 while leading RSU to its third consecutive winning season.
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