
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, June 11, 1994                   TAG: 9406140040
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From staff reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

RU EXTENDS COACHES' DEALS

Ron Bradley, whose teams have won 20 games in two of his three seasons as the men's basketball coach at Radford University, was given a contract extension through the 1995-96 season.

Bradley received the extension shortly after he interviewed for the head coach's job at Old Dominion in the spring. ODU hired former North Carolina A&T coach Jeff Capel to replace Oliver Purnell, also a former Radford coach.

"It's nice to have a couple of years of security," said Bradley, who has a 55-33 record at Radford. "It's nothing I was overly concerned with."

Terms of the contract call for Bradley to be paid $65,000 annually.

Bradley, who began the past season in the final year of a three-year deal, was given a one-year extension during the season.

Radford women's coach Lubomyr Lichonczak, who guided the Highlanders to the NCAA women's tournament last season, also received an extension through 1996. Lichonczak came to Radford in 1990 after working as an assistant at Texas A&M, where he is currently a candidate for the head coaching job. He will make $45,000 a year at Radford.

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