Margaret Wade (basketball coach)
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Lily Margaret Wade (born December 30, 1912 in McCool, Mississippi, USA; died February 16, 1995) was an American basketball player and coach. She played high school basketball for Cleveland High School and college basketball for Delta State University in 1930-1932, but the women's basketball program was discontinued at that college after she graduated. She coached Cleveland High School's girls basketball team for 25 seasons with a 453-89-6 record. Her teams won the Bolivar County Championships and entered the North Mississippi tournament fourteen out of her last fifteen years, and came in second in the state championships three consecutive years by a cumulative total of four points. Her 1959 girls track team won the state championship. When Delta State restarted the women's basketball team in 1973, Wade became the coach for them. They won three consecutive AIAW Championships in 1975, 1976 and 1977. Those seasons included a 51-game winning streak. She coached a future hall of famer Lusia Harris-Stewart. Cleveland High School's Margaret Wade Gymnasium on the campus of Margaret Green Junior High School was named in her honor in 1977. Top women's collegiate player is now awarded Wade Trophy named after her. She was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985 and in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999.
