ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Brock University men's basketball player Brad Rootes (Niagara Falls, Ont.) has signed a professional contract with Politekhnika-Galychyna Lviv in the Ukrainian Superleague.

Rootes becomes the 7th Brock player under head coach Ken Murray to sign a professional contract joining former standouts Dave Picton (Germany), Clint Holtz (Australia), Gord Wood (Europe), Jamie Duncan (Germany), Kevin French (Spain) and Morgan Fairweather (Niagara ABA).

Rootes ended his university career on top leading the Badgers to their second Canadia Interuniversity Sport (CIS) National Basketball Championship in school history where they defeated the Acadia Axemen by the score of 64-61 in front of a crowd of 8,251 in Ottawa back on March 16th, 2008. 15 days later on March 31st Rootes became just the fourth Brock basketball player to have his jersey officially retired joining Ken Murray, David Picton and Kevin Stienstra.

In his final season, Rootes was named an OUA first team All-Star for his fifth consecutive season becoming the first Brock player to be named a conference all-star all five seasons. He was also selected as the OUA West Player of the Year and a second team All-Canadian for his second straight season.

Rootes led the Badgers in five categories including scoring (17.3 PPG), assists (281), free throws made (183), minutes played (35.6 MPG) and steals (62). In the OUA, he finished 5th in scoring (18.8 PPG) and was 2nd in the OUA and CIS in assists (7.4 APG) and three-pointers made (63). Versus Carleton, he broke the Brock single game free throws made record going 20-for-23 from the charity stripe. He reached double figures in 36 games including nine double-doubles. Rootes became the all-time leader in career free throws made (732-for-922) and steals (327). He also finished his university career ranked 2nd all-time in scoring (2790), assists (1173) and three-pointers made (376-for-1059).