“Ray Gaddis doesn’t take days off,” Union assistant coach BJ Callaghan said recently. Callaghan has coached Gaddis for years now – sometimes Gaddis was starting every game at right or left back, and sometimes the West Virginia product was a spot starter, always in the 18 but rarely in the first eleven.
What Callaghan means is that if he gave you footage of a Gaddis training, you’d never know if it was from a season he was a full-time starter or one in which he spent most of his time on the bench. Gaddis is a leader among Union players first and foremost because he represents the club’s internal culture: Hard work, character, belief in yourself and those close to you – this is what Ray Gaddis represents among his teammates, and in turn it is what those teammates seek to emulate as their careers develop.