In basketball, point guards are generally known for one of three
skills - passing, scoring, or defense. Allison Wing was outstanding
at all three.
Not only does Wing repeatedly appear in the WPI Women’s
Basketball career record book, but she was nationally ranked in her
sophomore, junior, and senior seasons for assists. She finished as
high as 12th with 5.7 per game in her second season, while climbing
to 12th in steals in her final campaign.
“This is a well-deserved honor for a very special player
and person,” remarks head coach Cherise Galasso. “I
knew from the first minute I saw Alli compete, she would be sitting
here one day. For me, as her coach, the thing I loved about Alli -
not only was she our best player, but she was our hardest worker
and toughest competitor. As a point guard, she could drop 30 points
and 5 assists, and get 4 steals in a game, but the next day she was
back in the gym trying to get better and working to make her
teammates better.”
Wing averaged 5.0 helpers over her four-year career and led the
Crimson and Gray in the category all four years. She also left the
program as the eighth leading scorer in program history, with 1,171
points. Currently the Brewer, Maine, native sits 10th while holding
the record for career steals with 306 - including 11 in a game in
2000-01 for the single-game mark. She remains in the top six in
five other categories: career assists, assists in a season, average
assists per game, points in a game, and steals in a season.
In addition to a pair of winning seasons, Wing helped the
Engineers to a trio of winning NEWMAC campaigns and victories over
Coast Guard and Babson in the conference tournament.
She paced the Engineers in scoring, assists, and steals in her
inaugural campaign and followed it up by finishing her sophomore
season first in assists, second in steals, and third in scoring -
and garnered All-NEWMAC laurels.
Wing’s junior year yielded a spot on the WPI Holiday
Invitational All-Tournament team and the #22 NCAA ranking with 5.3
assists per game. The 2003-04 All-NEWMAC first team member repeated
as an All-Tournament team honoree and added an ECAC Player of the
Week selection to her resume as she ranked 14th in assists per game
and 12th in steals per game in her final season.
“Alli and I came to WPI in the same year and I think that
helped create the strong bond we formed,” continues Galasso.
“We both brought that same desire to win and we built that
culture together. She made it okay for her teammates to want to
win. When they saw her playing with such passion every day, they
knew anything was possible with her on our side.”
Since graduation, Allison has pursued her love for the outdoors.
She currently spends her summers in northern Maine managing a
rafting company on the Penobscot River. During the winter she lives
and works at Sunday River, a ski resort in western Maine, as a ski
patroller. She spends her free time backcountry skiing, rafting
across the country, and skydiving.
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