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Dan Radakovich made only a negligible impact during his time at IUP. But as the athletic director at Clemson University, he has led the Tigers to unprecedented heights.
Most prominent among the 19 teams Radakovich oversees is the football program, which won national championships in 2016 and 2018, earned runner-up honors in 2015 and 2019, has claimed the last six Atlantic Coast Conference titles and produced the NFL’s No. 1 draft pick, quarterback Trevor Lawrence, in April.
Clemson stident-athletes have also excelled in the classroom under Radakovich’s watch. They had a graduation rate of 93 percent in 2020 and a record 3.57 grade-point average in the spring of 2020.
Since taking over at Clemson in 2012, Radakovich has helped complete more than $180 million in facility upgrades and more than doubled athletic department revenue. For his efforts, Sports Business Journal named him its Athletic Director of the Year in 2017. He was honored by IUP with a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2009.
Radakovich earned a letter as an IUP sophomore tight end for coach Bill Neal’s team in 1977, when he caught five passes for 48 yards and a touchdown. His junior season was cut short by injury and he spent his senior year serving as a student coach.
Radakovich graduated from IUP in 1980 with a degree in finance and earned a master’s in business administration from the University of Miami in 1982.
He held various positions in the athletic departments at Miami, Long Beach State, South Carolina and American University before landing at LSU in 2001 as associate director of athletics. The Tigers won the national title in football (2003) during his tenure there. Radakovich later spent six a half years as athletic director at Georgia Tech before moving on to Clemson.
He resides in Seneca, S.C., wife his wife, Marcie. They have two sons, Christian and Grant.
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