Rogers State University Athletics

Ron Bradley began his time at RSU as the director of physical education for the university in 2004 and coached the school's club baseball team. After it was announced in 2006 that the university would be creating an athletic department that would field teams to compete in the NAIA, Bradley was named the first head coach of Hillcat Baseball and would become the architect of the program over a nine-year span beginning with the program's first season in the NAIA in the spring of 2006. Bradley built a program that saw near instant success as they put together an impressive stretch of seven-straight winning campaigns in the first eight years. He put the Hillcats on the map in 2011 after capturing the program's first Sooner Athletic Conference Tournament Championship and reaching the NAIA National Championship Opening Round as the No. 11 team in the NAIA Coaches' Poll, the team's first ranking in school history. He would continue building on that success in 2012 as he guided RSU to a program record 49 wins and a runner-up finish in the NAIA World Series finishing the season ranked No. 2, the highest ranking in program history. Bradley guided the Hillcats back to the NAIA World Series in 2013 with a record of 36-24.
 
With a career record of 281-188, he remains the all-time winningest coach in program history. In his nine years, Bradley was named a two-time Rawlings-NAIA Regional Coach of the Year and coached 19 all-conference selections, 11 conference gold glove award winners, four Daktronics-NAIA Scholar Athletes, two NAIA All-Americans, one ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American and had three players selected to the NAIA World Series All-Tournament Team in 2012. More than a dozen of Bradley's former players were selected in the Major League Baseball amateur draft, two of which reached the big leagues.
 
Before arriving on the Hill, Bradley put together one of the most illustrious high school coaching careers in the history of the state of Oklahoma. A 2003 Oklahoma Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductee, Bradley holds the distinction of winning 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 honor 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 tournament 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 was selected as the Oklahoma Coach of the Year three times by The Daily Oklahoman and Tulsa World. He was also honored with two National Region Coach of the Year Awards and is a five-time OBCA Coach of the Year.