Jenny Allard

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