Maceo Brodnax Jr.

Maceo Brodnax is truly one of Colorado's athletic pioneers. Stymied in his early attempts to become a high school coach, he took the basketball officials' test and became the first black official to work a high school or college game in Colorado. A 1948 graduate of Manual High School, Brodnax led his MHS basketball teams to three state championships from 1946-48. He was captain of the team as a senior and he was the first black scholarship athlete at the University of Denver. He later served as a principal within Denver Public Schools and was an assistant principal at Cole Middle School and Manual