{"id":7043,"date":"2024-07-16T10:16:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7043"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:16:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:16:41","slug":"bradley-lecroy-officially-announced-as-liberty-head-baseball-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=7043","title":{"rendered":"Bradley LeCroy officially announced as Liberty Head baseball coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Liberty University officially announced former VCU baseball coach Bradley LeCroy as its new head coach Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post to the Flames\u2019 athletic website, Liberty announced that LeCroy would become the eighth head coach in program history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside the announcement, Liberty athletic director Ian McCaw released this statement. \u201cBradley is an outstanding baseball coach who thoroughly impressed us during the search process, he has excelled as a top assistant in the SEC and ACC before leading a remarkable turnaround at VCU. 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