One hundred Ashland University student-athletes have earned 2018-19 Academic Achievement Awards from the Division 2 Athletics Directors Association (D2 ADA).
Even before students return to the Ashland University campus for the start of the 2019-20 academic year, the Eagle women’s basketball team will get a head start on a new season.
It happens every August – coaches and student-athletes begin the path toward a new season, and members of athletic departments prep themselves for the nine-month marathon which is the new academic year. It happens every June – coaches, student-athletes and members of athletic departments begin their summers following a reflection of the season that just concluded.
Former Ashland University guard Maddie Dackin isn’t done playing basketball, having recently signed a contract with Lemvig Basket of Denmark’s Dameligaen, the premier league for women’s hoops in the country.
Ashland University’s women’s basketball team will play host to its Day Camp, for girls entering grades 2-9, on Monday-Thursday (June 10-13) from 3-6 p.m. each day.
The Ashland University claimed a second-place finish in the 2018-19 race for the GLIAC Presidents’ Trophy, the league’s all-sport competition to measure general excellence across athletic departments.
Ashland University’s student-athletes will start Finals Week in a few short hours. Prior to that, however, hundreds of Eagles had the chance to dress up and reflect on the 2018-19 athletic year at the fourth ASHPY awards on Sunday (April 28) night in the Upper Convocation Center.
The end of the 2018-19 Ashland University athletic year is approaching, and with that, the fourth annual ASHPY Awards, presented by AU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, will be Sunday (April 28) at 7 p.m. in the Upper Convocation Center.
For their achievements in competition and in the classroom, Ashland University juniors Jodi Johnson (women’s basketball) and Nick Zak (men’s indoor track and field) each have earned 2018-19 winter Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Commissioner’s Awards, as announced by the GLIAC on Saturday (April 6) afternoon.
Twenty-five points each from men’s and women’s basketball has put Ashland University’s athletic department in 13th place in the 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Directors' Cup standings in NCAA Division II, as the final winter report was released on Thursday (April 4) morning.
Ashland University’s women’s basketball team is ranked No. 11 in the final Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II Top 25 Coaches’ Poll of the 2018-19 season.
It’s been a little more than one full calendar year since former Ashland University All-American forward/center Laina Snyder has played competitive basketball. Snyder now will get a chance to begin her professional career, as she has signed a contract with the State Basketball League’s Willetton Tigers in Willetton, Western Australia. The SBL is a league which sits under the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL).
For the second season in a row, Ashland University junior guard/forward Jodi Johnson is a Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-American.
Thursday, March 21 is the 2019 Ashland University Day of Giving! More information on how you can support Ashland athletics is found in this press release.
Ashland University’s athletic department has had a big year on the fields of competition so far in 2018-19, and that success continues to carry over into the classroom, as well.
In the first round of the 2019 NCAA Division II Midwest Regional tournament at Drury University on Friday (March 15) night, Ashland University’s women’s basketball team lost to Northern Michigan, 64-57, in the third matchup of the season between the two Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference rivals.
On the eve of the start of the 2019 NCAA Division II women’s basketball Midwest Regional at Drury, a pair of Ashland University players earned All-Midwest Region honors from the Division II Conference Commissioner’s Association (D2CCA).
For the fifth season in a row and ninth time overall, Ashland University’s women’s basketball team will play in the NCAA Division II postseason. For the first time since 2015, however, the Eagle women will be playing in a regional away from Kates Gymnasium.
Winning teams make winning plays at winning times. The No. 6-ranked Ashland University women’s basketball team made many winning plays down the stretch of a 77-61 win over Michigan Tech on Saturday (March 9) night in a 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament Semifinal at Grand Valley State.
At the banquet on Friday (March 8) night prior to the start of the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament Final Four, four Ashland University women’s basketball players earned all-conference honors.
The game notes for the Final Four of the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament for the 2018-19 Ashland University women's basketball season.
Prior to Tuesday (March 5) night’s opener in the 2019 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament, Ashland University’s women’s basketball team moved up a spot to No. 6 in the latest Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Division II Top 25 Coaches’ Poll.