A three-time Ivy League Player of the Year and four-time first-team All-Ivy selection, Allison Feaster is inarguably one of the greatest women’s basketball players to ever don an Ivy League uniform. She was tabbed the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 1994-95 and set numerous career records at Harvard including points (2,312), rebounds (1,157), offensive rebounds (440), steals (290), field goals made (771) and free throws made (475). She also sits second all-time in points and third all-time in rebounds and steals in Ivy League history.
Feaster led the Crimson to three-straight Ivy League titles in 1995-96, 1996-97 and 1997-98. Though her senior year, in which she led the nation in scoring, was highlighted by arguably her greatest on-court accomplishment. Feaster and her Harvard teammates pulled off the greatest upset in NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament history, when the sixteenth-seeded Crimson beat top-seeded Stanford in the first round of the tournament, 71-67. The feat is still the only time that a sixteen-seed has upset a one-seed in either men’s and women’s NCAA Division I basketball tournament history.
The four-year letterwinner was the 1998 Radcliffe Prize Recipient, awarded to Harvard’s most outstanding female senior student-athlete. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in economics, Feaster was drafted in the first round of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft—fifth overall—by the Los Angeles Sparks and went on to a 10-year WNBA career with the Sparks, Charlotte Sting and Indiana Fever. She also played professionally in Europe for teams in Portugal, France, Spain and Italy from 1998 until her retirement from professional basketball on August 8, 2016. Feaster is currently participating in the NBA’s inaugural Basketball Operations Management Development Program.