Dartmouth College, 1982
• 1981 Women's Basketball First Team Academic All-America®
• 1982 Women's Basketball First Team Academic All-America®
Boudreaux has spent her career in healthcare administration and in 2017 was named the chief executive officer of Anthem, a provider of health insurance and the largest for-profit managed health care company in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Boudreaux is the only women’s basketball player to be recognized as the Ivy League Player of the Year three times from 1978-82. She scored 1,933 points, grabbed 1,635 rebounds and averaged 21.7 points per game during her career, which are among the 23 school records she still holds today for the Big Green. A four-time All-Ivy first team selection, she led the NCAA in rebounding during the 1979-80 season.
Boudreaux was a two-time Academic All-America selection and a third-team All-American. She also participated in track and field for Dartmouth, winning Ivy League titles in the shot put and discus and achieved 1982 All-American honors in the shot put. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and an MBA from Columbia.
Among her numerous honors, Boudreaux was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003. She was recognized with the NCAA’s Silver Anniversary Award in 2007 and, in 2022, was awarded the association’s highest honor, the Theodore Roosevelt Award. Professionally, Boudreaux has been named as one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business and featured by Forbes as one of 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. She has been named by Modern Healthcare as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare and one of the Top 25 Women Leaders.
She also received the 2018 Billie Jean King Leadership Award from the Women’s Sports Foundation for outstanding leadership and significant contributions to the advancement of women through achievements in sports and the workplace.
Gallery: (4-6-2022) Gail Boudreaux, 2022 AAA Hall of Fame
Updated April 2022