A familiar face returns to Northwestern women's basketball. Allison Guth joins Carla Berube's staff, bringing championship experience to rebuild the Wildcats.
As Carla Berube formalizes her crew before the new Northwestern women’s basketball head coach’s inaugural season in Evanston, she brought back a familiar one who witnessed the Wildcats’ first prime.
According to the team’s announcement, the ‘Cats hired Allison Guth as Chief of Staff on Tuesday, which wrapped up Berube’s coaching-staff recruitment for the ‘Cats’ 2026-27 season. After searching as the team’s assistant coach from 2012 to 2015 under Joe McKeown, Guth returned to Evanston with 21 years of coaching experience.
"I have always held Northwestern University, the athletic department, and the women's basketball program in the highest regard," Guth said to NU Athletics. "I look forward to using my experience to add value to the already proven success that Coach Berube has brought to every institution with which she has been affiliated. I am also thrilled to learn from her incredible staff and to work alongside some of the finest colleagues in our profession here in Wildcat Nation."
Before coming back to Northwestern, Guth spent the last four seasons as Loyola Chicago's head coach, where she began her coaching career as an assistant coach from 2005 to 2007. This past season, she led the team to its first Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) appearance and reached the Super 16 stage.
Both teams clashed in December at Welsh-Ryan Arena, where the ‘Cats were upset by the Ramblers 69-68 through Clara Djoko’s paint jumper with 21 seconds to go.
"Allison is an outstanding addition to Northwestern Women's Basketball," Berube said. "She will play an important role in shaping the program's overall strategy and daily operations. Having served as a head coach at Loyola Chicago, Allison understands what it takes to build and sustain a successful program, and that experience will be invaluable in this position."
Guth garnered most career success at Yale, where she head-coached for seven years. The Bulldogs achieved two program-breaking seasons with 19 wins in 2017-18 and 2019-20 under her tenure. In 2017-18, Yale also became the first Ivy League team to win a national postseason women's basketball tournament, securing the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) title.
As an Arlington Heights, Ill., native, Guth attended Buffalo Grove High School and played varsity basketball for the Bison, leading her school to an Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Class 2A state title. Earlier in her first Northwestern job, after those assistant-coaching stints at Missouri (2007-08), DePaul (2008-10) and Yale (2010-12), she helped the ‘Cats, led by future WNBA standout Nia Coffey, finish 23-9 (12-6 B1G) in the 2014-15 season, where Northwestern also made its first NCAA Tournament appearance in nearly two decades.