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Jenny Allard
(? - living) U.S.A.

Jenny Allard

Softball head coach<

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Jenny Allard, one of the game's finest young coaches, enters her eighth season as head coach of Harvard softball. She has an overall record of 176-134-1 and an exceptional 70-16 mark in Ivy League opponents, making her the winningest active Ivy League softball coach.

In 1989, Allard was chosen the Big Ten Player of the Year and a Division I All-American who was nominated for the Honda Broderick Award. She was the recipient of the school's Conference Medal of Honor, an award given to the highest achieving female student-athlete. Named to the 1992 Big Ten All-Decade Team, Allard graduated in the top four all-time in 15 hitting and pitching categories at Michigan.

A 1990 graduate of the University of Michigan, Allard began her collegiate career as a third baseman, but was called upon to pitch during her junior season. She became her team's Most Outstanding Player and Most Outstanding Pitcher, she was a four-time All-Big Ten Conference selection, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors as a senior, and was twice named to the Mideast Region First Team.

In 1998, Allard led the Crimson to the best season in the history of the program, as the team recorded a 34-22 record, captured its first-ever Ivy League Championship with a perfect 12-0 League record, and earned a first-ever bid to the NCAA Tournament. The team then marched into its third post-season appearance in four years, earning a win over Boston College in the NCAA Regionals. In 1995, just her first season at the helm, Allard guided the Crimson to one of its best seasons ever with a 28-14 overall record, a second-place finish in the Ivy League (9-3) and its first-ever post-season appearance in the ECAC Tournament. The team again qualified for the ECAC Tournament in 1997, when the Crimson notched a 32-19-1 record.

In her short tenure at Harvard, Allard has produced 23 First Team, 15 Second Team and 15 Honorable Mention All-Ivy players as well as three Ivy League Players of the Year, an Ivy League Pitcher of the Year and an Ivy League Rookie of the Year.

In addition to the degree she earned from Michigan, Allard earned a master's degree from the Harvard School of Education in 1999.

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