When Tammy Butler Battaglino finished her Harvard basketball career in 1995, she was remarkably the program’s all-time leader in points, rebounds, field goals and free throws. Although others may have since surpassed her numbers, Butler’s mark on the program is etched in stone.
 
Butler Battaglino (née Butler), a three-time first-team All-Ivy selection – twice unanimously – served as team captain her senior year and led the Crimson to a 19-7 record, a 12-win improvement from the previous season. For her efforts, she was named Ivy League Player of the Year.
 
Butler Battaglino ranks among the career best in program history in a number of statistical categories, including field goals made (second, 644), field goal percentage (fourth, .511), scoring average (fourth, 15.6), points (fifth, 1,605), free throws (fifth, 301), steals (eighth, 1.7) and minutes played (10^th, 29.5).
 
She was also a two-time team Most Valuable Player and was a member of the Ivy League Silver Anniversary Honor Roll, as a part of the League’s celebration of 25 years of Ivy League women’s athletics.
 
Butler Battaglino was as good off the court as she was on, earning multiple academic honors throughout her career, including first-team District One Academic All-America, third-team National Academic All-America and Academic All-Ivy as a senior. As well as serving as a Class of 1995 Marshal, she received the Mary G. Paget Prize, awarded annually by the presidents of Radcliffe and Harvard to the senior student who has contributed the most to women's athletics, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women’s Excellence Prize, awarded annually to the senior woman who best exemplifies the qualities of excellent scholarship, character, leadership and athletic ability.
 
She received a post-graduate scholarship from the NCAA and went on to earn a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
 
Butler Battaglino was the Senior Managing Director and co-Head of Education for EY-Parthenon, a strategic consultancy company based in Boston. While at Parthenon, she was the first woman managing director and worked extensively with companies in the information and education sector, partnering with clients spanning the K12, higher education and corporate training continuum. Butler Battaglino, and her husband Paul, have two children, John and Tara.