Allison Coleman was named Sage's women's basketball coach in the summer of 2014 and hit the ground running since arriving on campus. Since that time, she has produced a career record of 119-74 in eight seasons and is the program’s most successful coach boasting a .617 career win percentage at Sage.

She earned her 100^th career win on February 8, 2020 as the Gators beat Houghton College, 64-47.

A year ago, the Gators returned to the Empire 8 Tournament and by year's end had produced the 2021-2022 Empire 8 Women's Basketball Rookie of the Year as newcomer Syrita Faraj announced her presence at RSC. She was also honored by RSC as the Female Rookie of the Year on a Team Sport. Faraj helped to lead her team to the 2021-2022 Empire 8 Women’s Basketball Semifinals. At season’s end, she was voted the Empire 8 Conference Rookie of the Year. The guard also earned second-team All-E8 honors, as bestowed by the conference's head coaches. She finished the year averaging 13.8 points on 39.4 percent shooting and 7.9 rebounds. She's netted 25+ points on four occasions, including a season high 30 in a November win vs. Albertus Magnus, and registered ten double-doubles. Her efforts garnered her four E8 Rookie of the Week selections. She also finished her first season scoring the most points by a rookie in the women’s basketball program’s history as she scored 372 points.

Another major honor for RSC's women’s basketball team and coach Coleman on the campaign, they were recognized by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Academic Top 25 Team Honor Rolls. The Gators were named to the WBCA’s Special Mention list for having compiled a team grade point average of 3.635, which stands 27^th best among the nation’s Division III programs. 

Additional honors were bestowed to the Gators as senior guard Sammy Pasinella was named to the Empire 8 Second Team. A threat from downtown, she scored 29 points on the season, including when she equaled a program record with eight made three-pointers on January 18 vs. Utica.

In the team's 2020-2021 Covid-19 shortened campaign, the team garnered numerous individual awards including several player of the week citations, while Madasyn Bush and Sammy Pasinella garnered a spot on the Empire 8 Women's Basketball First Team, while Kyra Oeffler was named to the Empire 8 Sportswoman Team.

Her 2019-2020 team earned the program’s second Empire 8 post-season berth after a 15-12 campaign, while individual honors were bestowed to several players over the course of the year. Sage made the program’s first appearance in the Empire 8 Championship game, while graduate player Megan Flynn earned acclaim as a member of the Empire 8 All-Tournament Team and was also saluted as a 2019-2020 Empire 8 First Team All-Star, all Sage firsts. She added acclaim as a 2019-2020 CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team honoree, another Sage women’s basketball first.

Flynn, who was also chosen the 2019-2020 Sage Female Athlete of the Year and the College’s Dean Robinson Female Scholar-Athlete of Year, also earned a selection as a member of the inaugural Capital District Female Athlete of the Year Team. Additional team members, Kaitlyn Bowman was named to the 2019-2020 Empire 8 Second Team, while Gessica Patregnani was named to the Empire 8 Sportswoman Team and was a national statistical leader over the course of the season having led the nation in three-point shooting throughout the month of January.

In her tenure at Sage, her teams have collected post-season appearances five times. Coleman’s teams also captured a Skyline Conference regular-season championship, a Skyline Conference Tournament Championship, an Empire 8 runner-up title, and earned an NCAA Tournament berth.

Coleman directed the Gators to an impressive campaign as rookie head coach as the team went 18-8 overall, garnering a spot in the Skyline Conference Tournament and the ECAC Semifinals. Along the way, Sage established a pair of program marks with a 12-game win streak and a record 18 victories. She coached the Skyline Conference Rookie of the Year that season in Gen Schoff.

She helped the 2015-2016 Gators to the program's first Skyline Conference regular-season crown with an impressive 15-1 regular-season record in the league, while also leading the team back to the Skyline Conference championship contest. She once again helped to produce the Skyline Conference Rookie of the Year as Emily Parslow was honored and Schoff was recognized as the Skyline Conference Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She was also honored as the Skyline Conference Coach of the Year by her peers.

In her third season with Sage, Coleman guided the Gators back to the NCAA after the team posted a record of 20-9 and mark of 13-5 in the league. Schoff capped her junior season with a selection as a first-team all-league performer, bringing the total to six under the leadership of Coleman.

Coleman and her staff were honored as the 2017-2018 Empire 8 Women’s Basketball Coaching Staff of the Year after directing the Gators to the Empire 8 post-season tournament in their first year in the league. Sage, which earned the No. 2 seed in the tournament, went 18-8, while also earning recognition from D3Hoops.com as the regional coaching staff of the year.

Coleman arrived at Sage after serving as the Assistant Women’s Basketball Coach and Game Operations Supervisor for her alma mater, Eastern Connecticut State University for the last four seasons. An assistant coach for the Warriors’ women’s basketball program for four seasons, Coleman distinguished herself as a player at ECSU as well. The most accomplished player in Division III women's basketball history, Coleman was a four-time All-American as a player for Denise Bierly at ECSU.  She spent the last four seasons as an assistant coach, working alongside her mentor, Bierly at ECSU.

A native of Jewett City, Connecticut, Coleman was named the State Farm/WBCA National Player-of-the-Year as a senior in 2003-04 and remains the only four-time All-America in women's basketball collegiate history. With 1,991 career points, Coleman holds the mark for points in school history (either ECSU men's and women's basketball history). She also shares the women's record with 1,134 career rebounds and ranks first in assists (579) and steals (369), while standing second in three-point field goals (152) and second in games (117). She is the only player in program history with as many as 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds.

As a junior, Coleman led the Warriors to the NCAA Division III national title game and a second-place finish. She averaged 17.7 points and 11.9 rebounds per game and was a finalist for national Player-of-the-Year honors.

As the national Player-of-the-Year in 2003-04, Coleman represented Division III when the WBCA College All-Star Team met the USA Women's Senior National Team in April of 2004.

With Coleman, Eastern had the winningest four-year composite record in program history, winning 101 games and losing only 17 (.856 percent). In Coleman's career, Eastern qualified for three NCAA and one ECAC tournament.

Coleman was a 2010 inductee into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, a 2012 inductee into the inaugural Little East Conference Hall of Fame and a member of the LEC's 25th Anniversary All-Star Team, and an October 19, 2013 inductee into the E-Club Hall of Fame.

Over the summer of 2015, Coleman enjoyed an induction into the New England College Basketball Hall of Fame for her accomplishments. This past summer, Coleman had the opportunity to coach a U19 USA team for the American International Sports Tours and received the silver medal during the United World Games in Klafenfurt, Germany.

In the fall of 2019, Coleman was named a regional committee member on the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Committee. Coleman serves as a regional representative for Region 2 and will serve a four-year term commencing with the 2019-2020 academic year.

In addition to her role as head women’s basketball coach at Sage, Coleman is an Assistant Athletic Director. She also served as the interim Head Women's Tennis Coach for the Fall of 2021, producing the 2021 Empire 8 Playert and Rookie of the Year.