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Boston College commit, Palmieri, continues to reach impressive heights on CT courts
Allie Palmieri is looking forward to her final season with Greens Farms Academy High School before she plays for the Boston College Eagles next year. (Credit: John Nash/Greens Farms Academy)

Boston College commit, Palmieri, continues to reach impressive heights on CT courts

WESTPORT, Conn. (BVM) — Boston College (BC) commit Allie Palmieri described that one of the best moments of her life happened last year as a junior during a game for Greens Farms Academy (GFA). With five seconds left in the tied basketball game, she went full court and made a layup, just as the buzzer sounded, sending the team to the conference championship. 

Highlights like this are exactly why Palmieri is one of the top female basketball players in Connecticut. The 5-foot-10 guard was named as the 2019-20 Gatorade Connecticut Girls Basketball Player of the Year, making her the first athlete from GFA to ever win the award.

MaxPreps ranks Palmieri as the state’s 13th best guard in her class. As a junior, she averaged 24.2 points, 8.0 rebounds, 2.3 assists, 3.9 steals and 1.3 blocks through 25 games.

But it was not Palmieri’s impressive junior season at GFA that made her a Division I recruit.

She actually attended Trumbull High School during her sophomore year where she averaged 18 points and seven rebounds. She was also named as a 2019 Connecticut High School Coaches Association (CHSCA) All-State selection that year. Following the season with Trumbull, she gave her verbal commitment to the Boston College Eagles after two unofficial visits to meet the team and coaches. 

“The team was on the rise, it checked off all my boxes,” Palmieri said. “In terms of academics, great relationships with the coaches and players, committing to BC was something that just felt right.”

But even with her verbal commitment, Palmieri knew she would have to work harder the following year to keep her scholarship because she was transferring high schools. She transferred to GHS for her junior season and still managed to keep her GPA close to a 4.0. She also made an instant impact with her new team as she led GFA to a 23-4 record and the New England Class C semifinals.

In November, a year after her verbal commitment, she made it official by signing her National Letter of Intent to play for BC in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) beginning in the fall of 2021.

While reflecting, Palmieri said that she would tell her younger self to never stop believing. A few years ago, she had no idea what she would be capable of accomplishing in one year between her sophomore and junior seasons.

“I would have never believed you if you told me I was going to play basketball at an ACC school,” Palmieri said. “It just proves that with hard work, perseverance, and the right people around you anything is possible.”

Set to graduate in the spring, Palmieri has one more season left to compete for GFA. Palmieri said that she is going to push herself even harder this season to become a better passer and show her strengths on both sides of the ball.

“This senior season, I want to keep the same intensity and show that I’m more of an all-around player by getting after it on defense, both on and off the ball,” Palmieri said. “I think that by doing this, it will raise my team’s focus and lead us to be even more successful than last year.”

Palmieri has been playing basketball for eight years and her accomplishments until now would not have been made possible without a gesture from her late grandmother when she was in the fifth grade.

“My grandma bought my brother a hoop and he never used it,” Palmieri said. “So, I figured I needed to use it to make her feel like it was a good gift.”

That gift turned Palmieri into someone who will soon play with and against some of the best players in the country. But for now, she is concentrating on her senior season and planning her educational career; at BC she wants to study psychology and how it applies to athletes.