Bella Alarie

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Bella Alarie
Personal information
Born (1998-04-23) April 23, 1998 (age 26)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Listed height6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Career information
High school National Cathedral School
(Washington, D.C.)
College Princeton (2016–2020)
WNBA draft 2020: 1st round, 5th overall pick
Selected by the Dallas Wings
Playing career2020–2023
Position Center / power forward
Career history
20202022 Dallas Wings
2020 Galatasaray
2020–2022 Avenida
Career highlights and awards
  • AP All-America Honorable Mention (2020)
  • Ivy League Player of the Year (2018–2020)
Medals
Women's basketball
Representing Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States
Pan American Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Lima National team

Isabella Augustine Alarie (born April 23, 1998) [1] is an American former professional basketball player. She played her entire career for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is the daughter of Mark Alarie, a retired professional basketball player who played in the NBA for the 1986–1991 seasons.

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College career

Alarie played college basketball for the Princeton Tigers. She was the three-time Ivy League Player of the Year (from 2018 to 2020) [2] and was selected to All-America Honorable Mention by the Associated Press (AP). [3] Alarie started in all 106 games during her career in Princeton from the 2016–17 to 2019–20 seasons. In her junior year (2018–19 season), she averaged a career best double-double of 22.8 ppg and 10.6 rpg. Alarie is a career 34.8% 3-point shooter who also averaged 1.2 steals and 2.3 blocks per game. Following the 2019-20 season, Alarie was named an Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press.

WNBA career

Alarie was selected as the 5th overall pick by the Dallas Wings in the 2020 WNBA draft, and proceeded to play a reserve role for the Wings for two seasons.

Alarie sat out the entire 2022 season due to "personal reasons". [4] She officially announced her retirement from professional basketball on February 2, 2023, citing desires to want to explore the business side of basketball as opposed to playing. [5] Her final WNBA game was the First Round Playoff Game between Dallas and the Chicago Sky on September 23, 2021 where Dallas would be eliminated after losing to Chicago 64 - 81. Alarie played for 4 minutes and recorded 3 rebounds and 1 assist in her final game.

Career statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game SPG  Steals per game BPG  Blocks per game PPG Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game FG%  Field-goal percentage 3P%  3-point field-goal percentage FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold Career best°League leader

College

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2016–17 Princeton 303030.6.432.379.6678.02.11.11.71.712.6
2017–18 Princeton 303030.7.489.328.7899.42.31.32.61.713.3
2018–19 Princeton 232332.1.515.295.82910.63.41.22.81.922.8
2019–20* Princeton 232329.8.474.356.7448.62.31.22.31.717.5
Career10610630.8.480.348.7619.12.51.22.31.716.1

* 2020 NCAA tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
Source: goprincetontigers.com [6]

WNBA

Regular season

Source [7]

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2020 Dallas 22°314.0.364.077.8332.90.50.60.80.52.7
2021 Dallas 311113.1.500.000.8503.30.50.60.60.62.6
Career2 years, 1 team531413.5.431.067.8443.10.50.60.70.52.6

Playoffs

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2021 Dallas 114.0.000.000.0003.01.00.00.01.00.0

Personal life

Bella Alarie is the daughter of Mark Alarie and Rene Augustine. She has two brothers, Christian and Alexander. Mark Alarie was a two-time All-ACC first-team selection at Duke and was drafted in the first round of 1986 NBA draft. Rene Augustine was appointed the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice in 2019 [8] and the Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice in 2020. Bella's grandfather, Norman Augustine, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton and was a professor at Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1997 to 1999, and is the former CEO of Lockheed-Martin Corp.

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