| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Pittsburgh |
| Conference | ACC |
| Record | 17–32 (.347) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | 1968 (age 55–56)[1] Irvine, California |
| Alma mater | Michigan |
| Playing career | |
| 1987-1990 | Michigan |
| Position(s) | Third baseman Pitcher |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1992-1994 | Iowa (asst.) |
| 1995-2023 | Harvard |
| 2024-Present | Pittsburgh |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 705–550–4 (.562) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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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.