Alaina Woo finished her sixth season with Pomona-Pitzer in 2025-26, continuing to elevate Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Basketball since taking over the program in 2019.
The 2025–26 season marked another winning campaign for the Sagehens, highlighted by a return to the conference postseason. The year marks one of the program’s strongest seasons in recent memory and builds on its most successful stretch since the early 2000s. Following the effort, Woo was named Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Coach of the Year. Jadyn Lee earned First Team All-Conference honors, while junior Abby Homan and senior Emily Lee were named to the Second Team. Jadyn Lee, Abby Homan, Emily Lee, and Kayla Malek also received Academic All-District recognition.
This success reflects a remarkable program turnaround that Woo has helped drive—as a Pomona-Pitzer student-athlete, alumna, assistant coach, and now head coach. Since joining the staff in 2018, the Sagehens have produced their first five winning seasons since 2002. As an assistant coach in 2018–19, Woo helped guide the program to its first winning season since 2002, along with its first conference championship and NCAA Tournament. She has since added four more winning seasons since taking over as head coach.
Woo began her coaching career at Tufts University, under 2015 U.S. Marine Corps/Women's Basketball Coaches Association Division III National Coach of the Year, former Princeton head coach, and current Northwestern head coach, Carla Berube. She assisted Tufts to a 26-5 record, including appearances in the NCAA Elite 8 and NESCAC championship. Woo returned to Pomona-Pitzer in 2018-2019, assisting head coach Jill Pace to a historic, 20-win year for the program. This was a remarkable turnaround after achieving only 1 win in 2016-2017.
Woo graduated from Pomona College with a degree in Public Policy Analysis and a concentration in Science, Technology and Society. She later earned her Master’s in Education (Educational Evaluation & Data Analysis) from Claremont Graduate University. As a Sagehen, Woo was a four-year starter and two-year captain. During her senior season, she led the conference in scoring with 16.7 points per game and earned First Team All-Conference honors. She also surpassed 1,000 career points and graduated as the program’s all-time leader in career three-pointers. Her three-point record was later broken by two of her former players—Madison Quan in 2023 and Emily Lee in 2025.
Off the court, she served as chair of the NCAA's Student-Athlete Engagement Committee, Vice-Chair of the NCAA's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and President of the Pomona-Pitzer Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She also acted as the Division III student representative on the NCAA's Committee on Women Athletics, and the NCAA's Commission to Combat Sexual Violence.
Woo has served in various professional roles, including as the SCIAC's Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) representative for NCAA championships in women’s basketball from 2022-2025, and as chair of Pomona-Pitzer’s DEI Committee from 2022-2024. Currently, she chair’s the SCIAC women’s basketball coaches’ committee.
She is a native of San Carlos, CA.
