Alana Monique Beard is an American former professional basketball player. After playing college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils, she was drafted second overall by the Washington Mystics in the 2004 WNBA draft. She signed on with the Los Angeles Sparks as a free agent in 2012. Beard was the 2017 and 2018 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year. However, she was injured next season, only contributing a few points for the Sparks. Beard announced her retirement from the WNBA on January 23, 2020.
Beard in 2017
Beard guarding Maya Moore during the 2017 WNBA Finals
Beard and Candace Parker during the 2017 WNBA Finals
The Duke Blue Devils are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina. Duke's athletics department features 27 varsity teams that all compete at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level. The name comes from the French "les Diables Bleus" or "the Blue Devils," which was the nickname given during World War I to the Chasseurs Alpins, the French Alpine light infantry battalion.
The 1906–07 Trinity Blue and White men's basketball team
A Blue Devils baseball pitcher in 2014
Tip off of a Duke women's basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium
Wallace Wade Stadium, home to Duke football and site of the 1942 Rose Bowl.