Linda Hargrove (basketball)

Linda Hargrove (née Adams; born April 2, 1950) is an American retired basketball coach. Hargrove began coaching the women's basketball team at Cowley College from 1972 to 1989 before coaching the Wichita State Shockers women's basketball team from 1989 to 1998. As a college basketball coach, Hargrove had 429 wins and 248 losses between the 1970s and 1990s. In 1998, Hargrove went to the American Basketball League to coach the Colorado Xplosion for a year until the league closed. From 2000 to 2002, Hargrove had 37 wins and 59 losses as the head coach and general manager of the Portland Fire.

After the Fire disbanded in 2002, Hargrove remained in the Women's National Basketball Association when she joined the Washington Mystics in 2003. Hargrove started as a scout for the Mystics before being named assistant coach in 2004 and general manager in 2005. Hargrove remained as the Mystics' general manager until her initial retirement in 2008. Apart from the WNBA, Hargrove was an assistant coach for the United States women's national basketball team that won a medal at the 1990 FIBA World Championship for Women and 1992 Summer Olympics.