Brad Daugherty married wife Heidi Rost on June 30, 1990 in Daytona Beach. Brad has a daughter and son named Colton Daugherty.
The former basketball legend met Heidi while she was a college student working as a server. After their sweet encounter, their friends set them up on a date.
While they were dating, Rost didn't know the person she was in a relationship with was a basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Three years before their relationship, Daughtery was drafted as the first overall pick by the Cavaliers in the 1986 NBA Draft. And after ten seasons with the team, he announced his retirement on March 1, 1997.
Currently, he is a part owner of JTG Daugherty Racing, and the recent news highlights him as the first black owner in the Cup Series to win the Daytona 500 when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. clutched the checkered flag.
Brad Daugherty Married In Florida
Brad married Heidi Roast in Daytona Beach in June 1990. Heidi was born on December 10,1970 and is five years younger than Brad.
After reciting vows, the couple took their reception party to the next level, with Daugherty riding in a horse-pulled carriage and an aircraft overhead displaying a banner with the inscription, "Heidi, I love you!" Love Brad.
Many well-known faces attended their wedding, and the former Los Angeles Clippers forward Joe Wolf was his groomsman. T
heir lavish ceremony took place years after meeting at an Ormond Beach restaurant as Heidi cherished the moment with photos.
Heidi was working the breakfast shift when Daugherty arrived with his friends, smeared in grease from working on his friend's car.
It was their first meeting, and they were later set up on a date by their pals. Walking on the beach, Rost and Daugherty had a normal conversation about their living.
Brad didn't tell her about his career in the NBA; instead, he said he hung out with his racing friends and worked on their cars.
When Rost expressed her feelings for the new guy in her life, she received conflicting counsel from her father, who advised her to forget the man without a steady job, while her mother encouraged her feelings for him.
They had been dating for months, but Heidi had no idea what Brad did for a living.
Heidi confessed to The Baltimore Sun that she learned about Brad from a stranger next to her seat on a flight to North Carolina to meet her family.
Nevertheless, instead of a gift for Christmas 1996, Brad penned a five-page love letter full of emotions, reliving all the beautiful occasions they experienced and expressing how much he loves her.
Brad and Heidi have already parted ways. She divorced Brad and remarried to Kevin Geagan, a resident of Asheville, NC.
On the other hand, Heidi has a Facebook page that has been dormant since 2015. The Facebook account was created under Heidi Rost Geagan (Heidi Daugherty), and the profile photos is herself with Kevin.
Brad Daugherty Has Two Kids
Brad has two children with Heidi, a son named Colton Daugherty and a daughter. Heidi has a daughter named Stella from her second marriage to Kevin.
Heidi's Facebook profile includes images of their children. Rost's first Facebook post was a photo of herself with her daughter.
During a family occasion in August 2008, the mother-daughter combo struck a pose in their stunning ensemble.
According to a snapshot uploaded on Rost's Facebook account on February 2, 2010, Colton resembles his father Brad.
Similarly, on June 3, 2011, the pleased mother shared a photo of her children on the day her daughter graduated from high school. Colton hugged his sister, who looked stunning in her gown and graduation coat.
Brad Daugherty Family Life
Brad Daugherty parents are named Roy Daugherty and Dorothy Daugherty. They raised him in a small town Black Mountain in North Carolina.
Brad was surrounded by motorsport memorabilia from birth, as his father and grandfather were also avid race fans.
They had a small speedway in the neighboring town of Ashville, and Brad frequently went there to watch races with his father. His dad and uncles had talked about racing cars since he was a youngster, so learning to work on race vehicles came naturally to him.
Apart from race tracks, Brad excelled in baseball, basketball, footbal. Brad wanted to go to college when he was younger and thought the only way to do it was through an athletic scholarship.
Although he ended up attending North Carolina and playing for coach Dean Smith, he still wanted to hang out at racing tracks and construct late model stocks.
