Christi Wade currently serves her alma mater as the Associate Athletic Director for Compliance, a position she took over in 2016 after returning to West Alabama as the assistant director of compliance in August 2013.
Wade, a former student-athlete at UWA, is also the sport administrator for softball, cross country, track and soccer in the Tiger athletics department. She serves on various committees around campus as well.
Wade worked at Saint Leo University from August 1996 until May 2010 in various capacities within the Lions athletic department. She was the head softball coach from 1996 through 2010, compiling a 463-296 record on the way to five NCAA South Regional Tournament appearances. Her teams broke the school record for wins three times while she coached 45 all-conference players, along with 47 academic All-Americans, 11 all-region, six All-Americans and six Sunshine State Conference players of the year.
She served as assistant athletics director and senior women's administration at Saint Leo from 1998 to 2008 before taking on an associate athletic director/SWA role from 2008-10, where she implemented and executed the university's Athletic strategic plan. Wade was a member of the inaugural graduating class of Leadership Saint Leo University on 2005 and inducted as a member of the Saint Leo Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007. She has been a member of NACWAA since 2004,.
Prior to returning to West Alabama, she returned to the family business for two years, serving as an account manager at Wade Heating & Air, Inc before heading back into coaching for one season as an assistant at Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis. She also was project manager at Wade Heating & Air, Inc. from 2012-13.
Wade was catcher on the Tiger softball team, playing under current UWA Associate AD/SWA Janet Montgomery, for whom she also served as a graduate assistant coach. She graduated from UWA in 1994 with a bachelor of science in Physical Education (K-12) and a master's of education in Special Education in 1996.
