Ashley made an immediate impact on the softball program. At the end of her freshman season, she finished the year with the best batting average on the team and was named Third Team All-Region. In just her sophomore season, she broke the single season hits record with 55 hits, helping her team to a second-place finish in the conference and the second-highest win total in program history. She was named First Team All-MIAA, which was followed by being named First Team All-Region and Second Team All-American. She set conference records for most hits, doubles, and total bases in 2008. Thanks to those amazing numbers, she became the second Saint Mary’s softball player to earn the conference batting title with a .580 average.
Her junior season saw much of the same success. Ashley had another stellar year, finishing with a .500 batting average and 53 hits, just two shy of her previous record-breaking year’s total. She added six home runs as she closed in on the career home run record. Her efforts garnered another First Team All-MIAA award as well as her second consecutive First Team All-Region honor. She finished the year ranked in the top 35 of all Division III players in five statistical categories.
As a senior, she became the first player in program history to eclipse 200 career hits as she posted her third-consecutive season with a .500-plus batting average. She broke her own single-season hit record as she surpassed 60 hits in just 38 games and established a new single-season home run record with ten. The list of “firsts” continued as she was the first softball player to amass more than 50 runs batted in during a single season. Ashley capped off her conference career by setting MIAA records for most doubles, runs batted in, and total bases in a career, and she was named the MIAA Most Valuable Player. She ended the year in the top 45 of all Division III players in seven statistical categories – including top ten rankings in sacrifice flies, runs batted in per game, slugging percentage, and batting average. Ashley earned her third-consecutive First Team All-MIAA honor, her fourth All-Region accolade, and repeated as an All-American.
Ashley was named the Marvin Wood Outstanding Senior Athlete and the 2010 Sheila Wallace Kovalchik Award winner as a senior. At the time of her graduation, she had established 20 school and conference single season and career records. She previously set the Saint Mary’s records for single season and career totals for hits, doubles, home runs, and runs batted in and is the College’s career batting average record holder. Her single-season batting averages in her sophomore, junior, and senior years ranked twelfth, tenth, and sixth nationally among all Division III players, respectively. Additionally, she ranked among DIII leaders statistically in at least five statistical categories in 2008, 2009, and 2010. Her career batting average ranked 14th all-time in NCAA Division III softball history at the time of her graduation.
Academically, Ashley was named to the MIAA Honor Roll each of her four years, was a four-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar Athlete, and became the College’s first CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America honoree.
