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...another decade later, Allard is the winningest active coach in the Ivy League and has the highest overall winning percentage in program history. The Crimson has finished in either first or second place in each of Allard’s eight years at the helm and the easy-going skipper led Harvard to its first of three Ivy titles and its first of two NCAA Tournament appearances. It would not be a stretch to consider Allard one of the nation’s finest coaches...
Raised in Southern California, an area she describes as the “hotbed of softball,” Allard played many sports growing up, primarily focusing on softball and soccer. Asthma forced her to ultimately quit soccer in favor of softball, but looking back, that decision was probably for the best...
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...
...Allard settled on Michigan—a school that had yet to win a conference title and was far from the nationally successful programs of UCLA and Cal State-Fullerton—because, as she describes it, it “just felt right.” Landing Allard was a big coup for the Wolverines, as she was the first big-time recruit to leave the cozy confines of California to take a chance on a program out east...
...chance paid off for both Allard and Michigan, as the Wolverines soared into contention for the Big Ten crown on a yearly basis. And though Allard did not win a conference title at Michigan or make the NCAA tournament as a player (she would later make her first visit as Harvard’s coach in the 1998 tourney), her decision to leave California was significant...