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There’s a reason that team pictures and article clippings vastly outnumber any awards on Allard??s walls—the accolades were, and continue to be, far from her main objectives of winning as a competitor on the field and as a mentor and teacher...
After various successes in high school and stints on the national under-18 and Junior Olympic teams, Allard found herself heavily recruited by a host of powerhouse programs in her home state. It was a visit to a fledgling program in the Midwest, though, that caught Allard??s fancy...
Having shared the field with the likes of eventual Olympians Lisa Fernandez, Michelle Granger and Julie Smith, it’s hard to argue with Allard??s take. Then again, it is also clear that softball’s migration eastward and the diffusion and diversification of talent—a trend that Allard embodied in her own playing career—helped the sport catch on and grow at places like Harvard...
...Allard??s playing career has symbolized the rise of softball’s national popularity and its gradual evolution as a sport, so too has her coaching career come to symbolize the fundamental premise of Ivy League athletics...
Much like her campus visit that “just felt right,” Allard??s trip to Harvard that summer was all that was necessary to seal the deal. Allard became the fourth coach in program history in time for the 1995 season and began what she figured would not be a terribly long stint...