Women's Basketball . February 4, 2026

Women's Basketball Alumnae Updates

South Carolina women’s basketball celebrates National Girls and Women in Sports Day by catching up with just some of its more than 200 alumnae. These snapshots show how girls who play sports become women who lead!

Careers in Sport

These six Gamecocks are just some of those who have have built various careers in sport.

Now retired from a career as a counselor, teacher and coach, Marsi McAlister was the 1999 Region 4A High School Basketball Coach of the Year and the 1994 and 1995 Region 5-AAA High School Softball Coach of the Year. She was also a women’s basketball assistant coach at USC Aiken.

Leaders in Medicine, Business and More

Like many college student-athletes, most of our alumnae have pursued careers outside of sport. These are just some of the many women who took what they learned as athletes and applied it to fields ranging from medicine and technology to human resources, management, and entrepreneurship … just to name a few!

A few more details of the stories some of these women shared with us…

In addition to her role as instructional technology manager right here at the University of South Carolina Darla Moore School of Business, Brit (Canty) Wilson was the first female president of the USC Association of Lettermen.
After a successful career in retail leadership, Beverly (Hawkins) Anderson got her master’s degree in computer information services and pursued a second career in the technology sector. Now an entrepreneur, her ventures include ownership of 22 vending machines, multiple investment properties and a food service company that supports military operations at Fort Jackson.
Melanie Johnson is part of Rotech Healthcare in Sarasota, Fla., which provides comprehensive respiratory treatment and home medical services. She provides operational leadership, staff development, compliance with healthcare standdards and ensuring timely, high-quality respiratory care services that improve patient outcomes across the region.
As an endoluminal sales associate, Sancheon White works alongside physicians during robotic assisted lung procedures to help maximize diagnostic yield. The larger mission of her role is early detection that can improve lung cancer survivability from 30 percent today to as high as 90 percent.
Suzanne (Woolston) Bossert’s work with Just Horizons, a Boston-based non-profit that supports leaders across multiple sectors in navigating rapid societal transformation, especially on the ethical use of AI, includes using her journalism degree to serve as imprint editor at Wildhouse Publications, a subsidiary of Just Horizons.