Jenny Allard

Jenny Allard
Current position
TitleHead coach
TeamPittsburgh
ConferenceACC
Record17–32 (.347)
Biographical details
Born1968 (age 55–56)[1]
Irvine, California
Alma materMichigan
Playing career
1987-1990Michigan
Position(s)Third baseman
Pitcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1992-1994Iowa (asst.)
1995-2023Harvard
2024-PresentPittsburgh
Head coaching record
Overall705–550–4 (.562)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
  • Ivy League Regular Season Champions (1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2018, 2019, 2023)
  • Ivy League Tournament Champions (2023)

Jennifer Lynn Allard (born 1968) is a former All-American softball player at the University of Michigan and the current head coach of the University of Pittsburgh softball team.[2] Allard played for the Michigan Wolverines softball team from 1987–1990, where she was named an All-Big Ten player four straight years. She was a third baseman as a freshman and sophomore and a pitcher as a junior and senior. In 1989, Allard was named the Big Ten Player of the Year and a nominee for the Honda-Broderick Cup. She 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. In 1997, Allard told her team that she was a lesbian, becoming one of the first major college coaches to openly announce her homosexuality. In 2008, Allard was inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.

  1. ^ "Women's History Month Q&A: How Jenny Allard Won $1 from Hutch". University of Michigan Athletics. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  2. ^ "Jenny Allard". PittsburghPanthers.com. University of Pittsburgh Athletics. Retrieved February 15, 2024.