Bella Alarie

Isabella Augustine Alarie (born April 23, 1998)^[1] is an American former professional basketball player. She played her entire career for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is the daughter of Mark Alarie, a retired professional basketball player who played in the NBA for the 1986–1991 seasons.

Bella Alarie

Personal information
Born	(1998-04-23) April 23, 1998 (age 27) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Career information
High school	National Cathedral School (Washington, D.C.)
College	Princeton (2016–2020)
WNBA draft	2020: 1st round, 5th overall pick
Drafted by	Dallas Wings
Playing career	2020–2023
Position	Center / power forward
Career history
2020–2022	Dallas Wings
2020	Galatasaray
2020–2022	Avenida
Career highlights
AP All-America Honorable Mention (2020) Ivy League Tournament MVP (2018, 2019) 3× Ivy League Player of the Year (2018–2020) 4x First-team All-Ivy (2017–2020) Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2017)
Stats at Basketball Reference
Medals Women's basketball Representing  United States Pan American Games 2019 Lima Team FIBA Under-19 World Cup 2017 Italy Team

College career

Alarie played college basketball for the Princeton Tigers. She was the three-time Ivy League Player of the Year (from 2018 to 2020)^[2] and was selected to All-America Honorable Mention by the Associated Press (AP).^[3] Alarie started in all 106 games during her career in Princeton from the 2016–17 to 2019–20 seasons. In her junior year (2018–19 season), she averaged a career best double-double of 22.8 ppg and 10.6 rpg. Alarie is a career 34.8% 3-point shooter who also averaged 1.2 steals and 2.3 blocks per game. Following the 2019–20 season, Alarie was named an Honorable Mention All-American by the Associated Press. She graduated from Princeton with a bachelor's degree in history.^[4]

WNBA career

Alarie was selected as the 5th overall pick by the Dallas Wings in the 2020 WNBA draft, and proceeded to play a reserve role for the Wings for two seasons.

Alarie sat out the entire 2022 season due to "personal reasons".^[5] She officially announced her retirement from professional basketball on February 2, 2023, citing desires to want to explore the business side of basketball as opposed to playing.^[6] Her final WNBA game was the First Round Playoff Game between Dallas and the Chicago Sky on September 23, 2021, where Dallas would be eliminated after losing to Chicago 64–81. Alarie played for 4 minutes and recorded 3 rebounds and 1 assist in her final game.

Post-retirement

In June 2024, Alarie joined the Georgetown Hoyas as the director of player development and experience.^[7]

Career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

College

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2016–17	Princeton	30	30	30.6	.432	.379	.667	8.0	2.1	1.1	1.7	1.7	12.6
2017–18	Princeton	30	30	30.7	.489	.328	.789	9.4	2.3	1.3	2.6	1.7	13.3
2018–19	Princeton	23	23	32.1	.515	.295	.829	10.6	3.4	1.2	2.8	1.9	22.8
2019–20*	Princeton	23	23	29.8	.474	.356	.744	8.6	2.3	1.2	2.3	1.7	17.5
Career		106	106	30.8	.480	.348	.761	9.1	2.5	1.2	2.3	1.7	16.1

* 2020 NCAA tournament cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
Source: goprincetontigers.com^[8]

WNBA

Regular season

Source^[9]

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2020	Dallas	22°	3	14.0	.364	.077	.833	2.9	0.5	0.6	0.8	0.5	2.7
2021	Dallas	31	11	13.1	.500	.000	.850	3.3	0.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	2.6
Career	2 years, 1 team	53	14	13.5	.431	.067	.844	3.1	0.5	0.6	0.7	0.5	2.6

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2021	Dallas	1	1	4.0	.000	.000	.000	3.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0

Personal life

Bella Alarie is the daughter of Mark Alarie and Rene Augustine. She has two brothers, Christian and Alexander. Mark Alarie was a two-time All-ACC first-team selection at Duke and was drafted in the first round of 1986 NBA draft. Rene Augustine was appointed the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice in 2019^[10] and the Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice in 2020. Bella's grandfather, Norman Augustine, graduated magna cum laude from Princeton and was a professor at Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1997 to 1999, and is the former CEO of Lockheed-Martin Corp.