Jessica Lynne Allister was born on October 7,1982 and is an American softball coach and former catcher who is the current head coach at Stanford.
15 Facts About Jessica Allister
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From 2011 to 2017, Jessica Allister was head coach at Minnesota, where she had 290 wins and five consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances from 2013 to 2017.
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Jessica Allister then returned to Stanford to become head coach at her alma mater.
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Jessica Allister was born in 1982, when her father Derek Jessica Allister was a graduate student at the University of Idaho and assistant basketball coach at Moscow High School in Moscow, Idaho.
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Jessica Allister spent her childhood in the Palouse, San Francisco Bay Area, and Reno, Nevada, when her father was an assistant men's college basketball coach at Washington State, California, and Nevada.
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At Stanford University, Jessica Allister had a stellar playing career for the Stanford Cardinal softball team.
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Jessica Allister holds the school record for games played with 266.
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Jessica Allister was the starter for the Cardinal from day one to the end of her playing career.
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Jessica Allister earned second-team NFCA All-American honors and first-team All-Pac-10 honors in 2004, her senior season during which Stanford again made the Women's College World Series.
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Jessica Allister graduated with her name all throughout the program's record book, including top-three in many offensive categories and top-ten in several others.
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Jessica Allister played the 2004 and 2005 summer seasons as a member of the New England Riptide of National Pro Fastpitch.
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Jessica Allister's first coaching job was with the University of Georgia under coach Lu Harris-Champer in 2005 and 2006, helping lead the Georgia Bulldogs to consecutive NCAA tournament appearances as well as an SEC championship.
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Jessica Allister was a part of the 2009 West Regional Coaching Staff of the Year, as awarded and honored by the NFCA.
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Jessica Allister was the Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2017.
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On July 18,2017, Jessica Allister began her third stint with Stanford softball, this time as head coach.