Despite spending just two seasons in a Columbia uniform, Ellen Bossert left an indelible mark on the Lion program. She owns two of the top five single-season scoring (598, 470) and rebounding (355, 335) marks in program history and is one of eleven 1,000-point scorers for Columbia with 1,068 career points. Her .544 career field goal percentage paces all Lions and sits second all-time in the Ivy League.
 
In Bossert’s two seasons, the Lions had a 40-13 record, including a 21-6 mark in 1985-86, when Columbia finished third in the NCAA Division III Tournament. The Lions defeated Buffalo State, 89-73, in the third place game, behind Bossert’s 38 points—one shy of her single-game program record of 39 that still stands today. A year later, Columbia would begin Division I and Ivy League play.
 
Bossert, who spent a year and a half at Hamilton College, graduated from Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1986 and went on to earn her master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University in 1992. She was awarded Columbia’s G. Bjorkwell Prize for “achievement and contribution” to the University upon graduation in 1986 and was inducted into the Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame in 2008. Bossert currently serves as the chief marketing officer for Cooledge Lighting Inc.—the global leader in luminous surface offerings—in Boston, Massachusetts.