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...assistant coach at nationally-ranked Iowa, Allard eventually grew dissatisfied with the growing intensity of sports and the imbalance between athletics and academics...
...really didn’t like where I saw big-time athletics heading,” Allard says. “There was a lot of compromising of academics, a lot of focus on their four-year collegiate careers and nothing beyond that...
...Allard, always a good student herself and an Academic All-American in her last year at Michigan, decided to keep her eyes open for a more suitable opportunity to put her teaching skills to better...
That opportunity came in the spring of 1994 when Allard saw a job posting for the Harvard head coaching position. Though initially unsure of the idea of applying to be a head coach, a few colleagues encouraged Allard to pursue...
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...