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Allison Boevers is in her fifth season as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan track and field team in 2025-26, working primarily with the Wolverine throwers.
Boevers by the Numbers
• Has coached or assisted in coaching 13 different student-athletes to a combined 23 NCAA All-America honors, including eight at Michigan
• Has coached or assisted in coaching eight conference champions
• Has coached or assisted in coaching eight school record-holders, including four at Michigan
At Michigan
• In 2025 Elizabeth Tapper had a breakout sophomore season, setting the indoor and outdoor shot put program records and advancing to the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. She finished third at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, setting the program record (18.26m) for the fifth straight meet, before finishing 12th (16.90m) at the NCAA Indoor Championships for Second Team All-America honors. Tapper took silver at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, setting the program record (17.65m) for the second time. Tapper finished fourth at the NCAA East First Round (17.28m) and 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (16.97m) for Second Team All-America honors. Emma Yungeberg had another successful season, setting the program record and finishing fourth in the javelin throw (53.08m). She nearly topped the record at the NCAA East First Round with a mark of 52.97m, advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and finishing 17th (50.88m) for Honorable Mention All-America honors. Freshmen Abigail Russell and Josh Huisman both advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the shot put, both earning Honorable Mention All-America citations.Â
• In the 2024 season, three Wolverines were named NCAA Outdoor Championships selections (Zane Forist, discus throw; Corinne Jemison, discus throw; and Emma Yungeberg, javelin throw) from the throws squad. Yungeberg finished second at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships (50.89m), setting the program record for the first of three-straight meets. At the NCAAs, Yungeberg finished 14th with a program record-setting mark of 52.36m to earn Second Team All-America honors. Jemison took third in the discus throw at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships before finishing fifth at the NCAA Championships with a program record mark of 60.07m to earn First Team All-America honors. Jemison also earned bronze at the Big Ten Indoor Championships with a program record mark of 16.82m. Forist finished 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, the best finish on the men's side, and earned Second Team All-America honors.
• In the 2023 season, the throwers saw several record-breaking performances on the way to sweeping the Women's Indoor and Outdoor Big Ten Championships. Corinne Jemison won the Big Ten Outdoor discus title while breaking the program record she set the previous year. Emma Yungeberg threw for the No. 3 javelin mark in program history while Jemison also came away from the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with the U-M shot put record. On the men's side, freshman Zane Forist threw for the No. 5 discus mark in program history at the NCAA East Preliminaries. After qualifying for the NCAA Championships, Forist finished in 24th place.
• In her first year, Boevers coached the then best duo of women’s shot putters in program history with Corinne Jemison and Amanda Schaare. Jemison also had a breakthrough campaign, breaking school records in the outdoor shot put (16.92m / 55- 6.25) and also in the discus (57.40m / 188-4) on the way to both second-team All- America honors and a sixth-place finish at the USATF Championships in the discus.
Before Michigan
Boevers came to Ann Arbor via Oklahoma, where she coached and assisted Sooner student-athletes to All-America honors and seven individual Big 12 titles between 2017 and 2021.
During her time with the Sooners, Oklahoma was a near-constant presence on the national stage in the throws. Sooner student-athletes she worked with earned All-America honors at eight of the 10 NCAA Championship meets held since her arrival in Norman in 2017, combining for 12 honors along the way.
Among the student-athletes she worked with was Jess Woodard, who earned four top-eight shot put finishes at the NCAA Championships -- including a silver medal during the outdoor season in 2018 and bronze during the indoor season -- to go along with a pair of NCAA Championships appearances in the discus. Jess Woodard also won three Big 12 shot put titles under her tutelage.
Boevers also coached Meia Gordon (shot put), Cooper Campbell (shot put) Payden Montana (shot put) and assisted with Ashley Bryant (weight throw/hammer throw) and Bailey Campbell (hammer throw) to multiple All-America honors at Oklahoma.
Before Oklahoma, she served as an assistant coach at Miami (Ohio) from 2014-2016, focusing primarily on the throws but also assisting with the pole vault. While in Oxford, she coached Amelia Strickler to All-America honors.
Boevers (née Liske) still ranks among the best throwers in Michigan program history, coming in at No. 4 in the indoor shot put all-time list and No. 5 outdoors over a decade after her Wolverine career came to a close. She qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds in both the shot put and discus in 2010, 2011, and 2012. She graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in English.
Boevers has coached alongside her husband, Colin Boevers, dating back to her time at Miami (Ohio). Colin presently also serves as an assistant coach for the Wolverines in the throwing events.
