Year: 2023

Height: 5-10

Position: G

High School: Montverde Academy (FL)

Recruiting Status: Verbally committed to Illinois.

Notes: transferred from Hillsboro HS (Nashville, TN) following 2020-21 school year; her father, Corey Allen, played basketball at Tennessee (1991–1993)

Recruiting Summary for Cori Allen

September 2017 offers: Ole Miss (previous staff), Middle Tennessee

June 2018 offer: Ole Miss (new staff)

offers in 2019:

• June: Vanderbilt
• July: Georgia Southern, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan, Old Dominion, Penn State, Virginia Tech
• August: Georgia
• September: Texas Tech, Western Kentucky

offers in 2020:

• April: Clemson, Tennessee
• July: Arkansas, Mississippi State, North Carolina
• August: Alabama, Tennessee State
• September: UCLA, Florida State, Ohio State, West Virginia (previous staff)

*A report in 2020 also mentioned a UL Monroe offer

offers in 2021:

• March: Virginia
• April: Auburn, Florida, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame
• June: Arizona
• July: Memphis, Miami (FL), Xavier
• September: Rutgers

offers in 2022:

• May: Illinois
• July: Houston, West Virginia (new staff)

September 2022 official visit: Illinois

October 20, 2022: committed to Illinois

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Cori Allen, a Hillsboro basketball star with Lady Vols offer, transfers to Montverde Academy (Nashville Tennessean, 6/1/2021)

Allen averaged 14.7 points and 5.1 rebounds as a freshmen. The Lady Burros played just eight games during the 2020-21 school year because of Metro Nashville Public School’s decision to play a shortened season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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