Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, July 4, 1995 TAG: 9507050100
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B-3 EDITION: HOLIDAY
SOURCE: BOB TEITLEBAUM STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Pulaski County's Rod Reedy, one of Timesland's most successful girls' basketball coaches in the 1990s, is taking a position as an assistant women's coach at Radford University.
Reedy built one of the state's most successful Group AAA girls' basketball starting in 1990 when the Cougars went 16-5 and advanced to their first Northwestern Region tournament.
In the past six years, Pulaski County has gone 116-35 and played in two Group AAA championship games.
Reedy was out of town on a recruiting trip for Radford on Monday and unavailable for comment. His wife, Debbie, who also was his assistant coach with the Cougars, confirmed Reedy had given up his position at Pulaski County.
Debbie Reedy said she planned to apply for the opening. She is working on her degree in education and, if she is hired, would be a part-time employee at Pulaski County.
Rod Reedy played basketball for Pulaski High School before it was merged with several other schools to form Pulaski County, then went on to Radford University.
He became the Pulaski County coach for the 1981-82 season. He In the 1980s, Reedy's team, when the Cougars were struggling to win games. The program arrived in 1990 and reached its peak in the next two years, when the Cougars went 48-9 and lost twice in the Group AAA championship game, first to James Madison then to Phoebus.
``The job [as Pulaski County coach] was offered to me by [athletic director] Carl Lindstrom,'' Reedy said a few years ago in talking about how far his program had come. ``He was pretty straightforward about the situation and told me what I was getting into.'' .
The Cougars posted their second-best record ever during the past season, going 22-5. Center Kim Cruise signed a letter of intent with Radford, where she will be reunited with Reedy.
Pulaski County became the top challenger to Cave Spring when Salem and Northside dropped out of the Roanoke Valley District and into the Group AA Blue Ridge District in the late 1980s. The Knights and Cougars quickly became a top Timesland matchup in which the girls' games drew some of the biggest crowds of the winter season for both schools.
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