Charles "Cheeto" Bradley joined the Queens baseball program as an Assistant Baseball Coach and Recruiting Coordinator in August 2020.
Bradley joined the Royals after serving one year as an assistant coach at Ouachita Baptist University where he was responsible for Junior College recruiting and instructed the team defense and base running development. Bradley has also served as the Head Coach of the Gastonia Grizzlies, a summer league team that competes in the Coastal Plains League, where he led the team to a CPL Championship in 2017 and a First Half Western Division Championship in 2019.
The Charlotte, N.C. native was also an assistant baseball coach at fellow South Atlantic Conference member Lenoir-Rhyne University from 2012-2015 and spent an additional two years in the Mount Collegiate Baseball League as the Head Coach for the Loveland Blue Jays in 2012 and the Fort Collins Foxes in 2013, where he led the Foxes to a runner-up finish in the MCBL Championship Game.
As a player, Bradley was a shortstop for Harding University. In 2011, the Bisons’ won the Gulf South Conference West Division, setting the school record for wins in a season (42) and earning the first NCAA Regional appearance in school history. He left Harding as the program’s all-time leader in sacrifice hits, while finishing second in career double-plays turned and fourth in assists.
Bradley earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in sport management from Harding in 2011 and received a Master of English degree in liberal studies from Lenoir-Rhyne University in 2015.
