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CORPUS CHRISTI, TX – Floyd County native Royce Chadwick has signed a contract extension with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Athletics through the 2024-2025 season.
Chadwick is Head Women’s Basketball Coach and just completed his 10th year at the helm, with a 19-10 record in 2021-2022. The Islanders finished second in the Southland Conference (11-3) and scored the school’s first-ever undefeated home season (14-0). The team also holds the sixth-longest active home winning streak in the nation, which will carry over into the 2022-2023 season.
Chadwick comes by winning naturally.
As the son of the late Kelly Chadwick, a member of the NHRA Hall of Fame (1976) and two-time winner of the Coca-Cola Cavalcade of Stars (1969 & 1970), Royce became the winningest coach in Southland Conference history this past season with 211 career league wins while also reached the 700 career wins total (708-268 record in 38 seasons as a collegiate head coach).
In 2019-20, Chadwick guided the program to its first-ever regular-season conference title in program history with a 23-7 (17-3 SLC) record. The Islanders claimed the No. 1 seed in the SLC Tournament, but A&M-Corpus Christi did not get the opportunity to compete for an NCAA Tournament bid due to COVID-19. Chadwick was distinguished as the 2019-20 SLC Coach of the Year.
