UWEC Athletics Hall of Fame
Alison Hover was a six-time WIAC singles and doubles champion and played on the first three Blugold tennis teams to qualify for the NCAA team tournament including the 2000 squad which reached the NCAA quarterfinals. Hover ranks among the premier women's tennis players in UWEC history. She posted a 91-18 career singles record, winning the conference No. 3 singles crown as a freshman and sophomore and the league's No. 1 crown as a junior and senior. In doubles, Hover was 74-23 with a No. 3 conference championship as a freshman and a No. 1 title as a senior. In between, she was the No. 1 runner-up both years. Hover was a member of the Blugolds’ last four conference championship teams from 1999 through 2002. The Blugolds were an NCAA team qualifier in three of those seasons with a quarterfinal finish in 2000 when she played alongside fellow Hall of Famers Molly Cope and Coralie Lockner. Hover also competed in the 2002 NCAA individual singles competition at nationals. Hover was a Blugold Super Six recipient as well as a First Team Academic All-American. She was one of four Blugolds named to the WIAC All-Centennial women’s tennis team in 2012.
A mathematics and finance major, Hover has worked for Travelers in St. Paul since graduation and at the time her induction was Second Vice President and Actuary. She earned her master’s in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota Carlson School. She attained Fellowship in the Casualty Actuarial Society in 2007 and received a Travelers Chief Actuary Award in 2016. At her induction, she was serving as the Executive Co-Chair of the Travelers employee resource group, Women in Actuarial & Analytics, a Co-Chair of St. Paul Academy Lower School Parent Association Diversity & Inclusion committee and a Children’s Museum of Minnesota Playmaker. She had been a volunteer for the Casualty Actuarial Society Exam Committee since 2007. She was Co-Chair of the first Travelers Actuarial Case competition and spent six years as a Hayden Heights Elementary Reading Buddy volunteer. At the time of her induction, she and her husband Imran, a former Blugold men’s tennis letterwinner, were parents of two children.
