Alabama A&M women’s basketball coach to step down

Alabama A&M College Director of Athletics, Dr. Paul A. Bryant, introduced on Tuesday that girls’s basketball head coach Margaret Richards has stepped right down to pursue different alternatives.

“We’re grateful for the dedication and energy that Coach Richards has proven throughout her tenure with the Alabama A&M College girls’s basketball program,” Bryant mentioned. “Her dedication to our student-athletes has been unwavering, and we want her the perfect in her future endeavors.”

Throughout her eight seasons in Huntsville, Richards has compiled a 97-125 file, with six journeys to the SWAC Event. As well as, she compiled a 69-70 mark in convention play. Throughout the 2021-2022 season, Richards elevated this system to a second-place end within the convention, notching a program-best 13 convention wins.

This season, Richards’s squad received 15 video games, together with going 10-4 on the AAMU Occasion Heart and had non-conference victories over Tennessee Tech, UAH, North Alabama, South Carolina State and Chicago State.

She coached All-SWAC Freshman of the Yr Kaylah Turner and All-Second Workforce performer Amiah Simmons. Notably, Richards is the one coach in program historical past not solely to comb rival Alabama State but in addition to do it twice.

A nationwide search will start instantly, the college mentioned.

Courtesy: Alabama A&M athletics