Girls Basketball, Girls Track & Field

Lakeview and Stephen Decatur High School

1974 -

Inducted September 2022

Clark, an EIU graduate, was teaching in a California junior high when the Lakeview job came open and she took it. The girls basketball program in Decatur was just starting, so she stepped in as coach for Lakeview in its first season and coached eight seasons until the school closed, going 87-42.

Clark won regional and sectional titles in 1980 with Lakeview, becoming the first coach to lead a girls team to the Sweet 16 in Decatur. After Lakeview closed, Clark went to Stephen Decatur. With the Runnin’ Reds, Clark — as co-coach with Jean Gift — won regional and sectional titles in the 1983 season. Clark was Macon County Coach of the Year in 1980 and, along with Gift, in 1983.