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- Title:
- Head Cheerleading Coach
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- Email:
- dmcdade@eastms.edu
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- Twitter:
- @EMCCcheer
Bio
Having been associated with East Mississippi Community College since her undergraduate days on the Scooba campus, local product Danielle D. McDade is in her fifth year of her second stint as EMCC’s head cheerleading coach.
Under McDade’s direction, EMCC’s cheerleading team has competed in the UCA and UDA College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championships during the past two years. The Lions enjoyed one of the program’s most successful seasons in program history by earning a 10th-place showing in the Small Coed Game Day division at the 2023 national championships held in Orlando, Florida. In addition, seven former EMCC cheer team members are currently competing at the four-year level, with four now cheering at Southern Miss, two competing at West Alabama and one for Mississippi College.
A DeKalb, Mississippi native, McDade had recently served as an adjunct psychology and health and physical education instructor at EMCC since 2009. After previously handling duties as Kemper Academy’s guidance counselor for 10 years, she recently became EMCC’s psychology instructor for the Scooba campus beginning with the fall 2024 semester.
McDade’s involvement with East Mississippi began during her two years as an accounting/business major while also participating as a cheerleader. After graduating from EMCC in 1994, she went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Mississippi State University in 1996.
Having completed her master’s degree in counseling/psychology from the University of West Alabama in 2006, McDade became a full-time EMCC staff member in 2003 when she worked in the business office as a student account receivable clerk. She also previously worked with EMCC’s school newspaper, The Collegian, and served as a cheer sponsor before earning her initial stint as EMCC’s head cheerleading coach and dance team coach in 2005.
The former Danielle Darnell and her husband, Wade, have one son, J.T., an EMCC graduate, and one daughter, Chaney, who is a senior at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri.