Amy Allen
Amy Allen is one of the greatest all-around athletes ever produced at West Middlesex High School. Amy starred in basketball, volleyball and track and field before a phenomenal career at Seton Hill University in basketball and volleyball.
For the Big Reds, she was a four-year hoop standout and was named Mercer County Athletic Conference MVP her junior and senior seasons after earning MCAC first-team as a sophomore and honorable mention as a freshman. She tallied 1,218 career points before her graduation in 1987, the first female at the school to clear the 1,000-point plateau. She was a four-year starter in volleyball, earning league MVP as a senior after a first-team selection her junior year. She was a two-year letter winner in track (program started in 1986) and a District 10 silver medalist and state qualifier in the 300-meter hurdles. To highlight her scholastic career, she was named the 1987 Pa. Scholar/Athlete of the Year and the 1987 KDKA Extra Effort recipient.
At Seton Hill, Amy was 2nd team All-District NAIA District 18 and averaged 14.4 points and 4.2 assists per game her senior year in basketball, leading team with 100 assists that season. She was fifth in the nation in 3-point shooting percentage in NAIA stats and nailed 5 treys in the national tournament, tying the tourney record. Despite her efforts, the team fell to No. 1 seed Claflin State.
In volleyball at SHU she was a four-year starter and helped lead the team to the NAIA National Tournament in Hawaii her senior year. The team finished 17th in the nation while Amy had 2nd highest blocking and passing percentages and 3rd highest percentage in digs in District 18 that season.
An inductee to both the West Middlesex and Seton Hill Athletic Hall of Fames, she had an outstanding independent softball career as well. She played women's Open Major Division ball for the Conneaut Lake Lakerettes and participated in the National Tournament for 10 years.