Evangel University of the Assemblies of God

Evangel Women's Basketball head coach Madi Wallace enters her second season at the helm in 2026-27.

Wallace enjoyed immediate success in 2025-26, coaching Evangel to their highest national ranking (#12) since the early 2000s and earning a NAIA National Tournament bid for the first time since 2019-20. The Valor broke several school records in 25-26, including opening the Wallace era with a 133-30 win over Crowley's Ridge College. Heaven Shockley, Cassidy Hambelton, and Carson Dillard all earned All-American honors for their efforts in 25-26.

Getting her start as a collegiate head coach in 2022, Wallace took over a second-year program at Mission University. Wallace turned an 8-win team into a 19-win team in her second season finishing sixth at the NCCAA National Tournament.  

During the 2024-25 season, she led the Patriots to a 25-7 record and an 18-4 mark in the program's first season in the AMC finishing third. Mission advanced to the AMC Quarterfinals falling to tournament Champion Columbia College, however, the Patriots earned a national runner-up finish in the NCCAA National Tournament. 

After graduation, Wallace was an assistant coach at Springfield Central High before working at her alma mater Ash Grove High School.  

She began her playing career at Avila University before transferring to Evangel from 2015 to 2018, she was an NAIA Scholar-Athlete and led EU in three-point shooting as a junior before an injury during her senior season cut her time short.  

As a prep standout at Ash Grove, she led the Lady Pirates to a Final Four appearance in 2014 and was a two-time MBCA Class 3 all-state selection and four-time all-district player. 

Wallace graduated from Evangel in 2018 with a degree in communication studies and earned her master's degree in organizational leadership from Drury University in 2020. Wallace and her husband, Ben, live in Ash Grove.