Jennifer Lynn Allard was born on 1968 and is a former All-American softball player at the University of Michigan and the current head coach of the University of Pittsburgh softball team.
21 Facts About Jenny Allard
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Jenny Allard was a third baseman as a freshman and sophomore and a pitcher as a junior and senior.
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In 1989, Jenny Allard was named the Big Ten Player of the Year and a nominee for the Honda-Broderick Cup.
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Jenny Allard has been the head coach at Harvard since 1995, where she led the Crimson to its first Ivy League championship in 1992 and has followed with three more Ivy League crowns.
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In 1997, Jenny Allard told her team that she was a lesbian, becoming one of the first major college coaches to openly announce her homosexuality.
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In 2008, Jenny Allard was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.
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Jenny Allard began at Michigan as a third baseman, but became a pitcher in her junior and senior years.
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Jenny Allard led the team in batting average in 1988 and 1989 and was named an All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year in 1989.
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Jenny Allard was a four-time All-Big Ten Conference selection, earning Academic All-Big Ten honors as a senior.
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In 1989, Jenny Allard was nominated for the Honda Broderick Award.
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Jenny Allard was the recipient of Michigan's Conference Medal of Honor, an award given to the highest-achieving female student-athlete.
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In 2008, Jenny Allard was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor, only the fourth softball player inducted into the Hall.
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In 1992, Jenny Allard accepted a full-time coaching position as an assistant coach at the University of Iowa.
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In 1995, Jenny Allard accepted the head coaching position for the Harvard University softball team.
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Jenny Allard has been Harvard's coach during each of its four 30-win seasons and its eight NCAA Championship berths.
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Jenny Allard has coached 33 first-team All-Ivy League players selections, seven Ivy League Players of the Year, eight Ivy Pitchers of the Year and seven Ivy Rookies of the Year.
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In 2000, Jenny Allard's team won its second Ivy League championship and NCAA tournament berth.
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Jenny Allard earned a master's degree from the Harvard School of Education in 1999 and a master's in psychology from the Harvard Extension School in 2003.
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On June 19,2023, Jenny Allard was named the head coach of the Pittsburgh Panthers softball team.
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In 1997, Jenny Allard told her team that she was a lesbian, becoming one of the first major college coaches to openly affirm her homosexuality.
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Jenny Allard made the announcement to her players in an email.