Randy Eaton, director of athletics at Western Carolina University, has received a four-year contract extension that will keep him at the helm of the Catamount athletics program through at least June 30, 2020. The executive committee of the WCU Board of Trustees granted the contract extension during a conference call meeting Tuesday, July 21. Since Eaton’s arrival, unrestricted donations to the Catamount Club, WCU’s athletic fundraising unit, have more than doubled, going from $433,880 for the 2010-11 fiscal year to $1.13 million for the fiscal year that ended June 30. Eaton became WCU’s director of athletics Dec. 14, 2011, coming to Cullowhee after serving as senior associate director of athletics at the University of Maryland since June 2008, where he was the No. 2 administrator for the Terrapins athletics program.
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