Alaina Woo enters her sixth season as head coach in 2025-2026, continuing to elevate Pomona-Pitzer Women’s Basketball since taking over in 2019.
In 2024–2025, Woo led the Sagehens to a winning season and postseason conference playoff appearance—part of the program’s best five-year stretch since the early 2000s. Sophomore Jadyn Lee earned First Team All-Conference honors, junior Emily Lee broke the program’s career three-point record, and Jadyn Lee and Emily Lee, along with Abby Homan, received Academic All-District recognition.
This success continues a remarkable program turnaround Woo has helped drive—as a Pomona-Pitzer student-athlete, alum, assistant, and now head coach. Since 2019, the Sagehens have posted multiple winning seasons, four SCIAC playoff appearances, a SCIAC championship, and an NCAA Tournament berth. As an assistant coach, Woo helped guide the 2018-2019 team to the program’s first winning season since 2002, and has since added three more 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, UConn alum and current Princeton 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 year for the program. The team won their first conference tournament championship in program history and made their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2002. 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 went on to earn 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. She sits top-10 on the all-time scoring list as a 1,000 point scorer, and currently holds the all-time record for career three-pointers. As a senior, Woo led the conference in scoring with 16.7 points per game, and was a first team all-conference selection. Off the court, she served as chair of the 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.
She is a native of San Carlos, CA.
