Highlanders Quicken to Hire Three: Radford head coach Byron Samuels has announced the hiring of three new assistants to his Highlanders’ staff: Frankie Allen, Jeff Maher, and Nathan Stewart. Allen comes to Radford with 29 years of D-I coaching experience, most recently as former head coach at Howard for the past five seasons. Allen was also the head coach at Tennessee State for nine seasons, and at Virginia Tech for four seasons, after coaching the Hokies for 11 seasons as an assistant. Allen was national coach of the year in 1993 at Tennessee State after leading the Tigers to an Ohio Valley Conference title and their first NCAA tournament appearance.
Maher also brings over two decades of coaching experience to the Highlanders, as he was most recently an assistant at Jacksonville State, and also served as an assistant at UCLA, UNC Wilmington (where he worked with Samuels), and at Duquesne. A Penn State grad, Maher actually was an undergrad at Radford for two years before transferring to Penn State. Stewart joins the RU staff after spending the previous two years as a graduate assistant on the Marshall University men’s basketball staff under head coach Ron Jirsa. Stewart is a Roanoke College grad, and was co-captain his senior season. [9/3/05]
