Returning Little East Conference Player-of-the-Year... fourth-team selection to the D3Hoops.com pre-season All-America team... needs 40 points to become the 11th player in program history to score 1,000 points in an Eastern uniform...
Coach Bierly: “Ashley is really the complete package. She's our No. 1 option, offensively. We've worked a lot in practice with the double team because we know that it's coming. Ashley is a lot stronger with the ball this year. Offensively, she can make shots that I don't know who taught her, and she's improved her defense. I think that she can have a monster year.”
Career-highs (thru 2007/08) : 40 min., 28 pts., 17 rebs., 4 assists, 5 blocks, 4 steals, one 3-pter...
2007/08: Became the fifth different Eastern player and eighth player in all (Allison Coleman was a four-time winner) to be named Little East Conference Player-of-the-Year in the 22-year history of the conference... named to the All-Northeast District team and repeated as a first-team all-conference selection and as a member of the All-Defensive Team... MVP of the conference tournament and an all-tournament selection at the Eastern Tip-Off Tournament... led the conference in scoring (15.4), FG percentage (.530), blocked shots (46) and average blocks (1.64) and was third in rebounding (8.5)... Eastern's Female Athlete-of-the-Year... named to the inaugural women's basketball conference academic honor roll and earned an Eastern/E-Club Scholar-Athlete Award in her first season of eligibility... in mid-February, became the 14th player in program history to record 500 rebounds... in three conference tournament games, averaged 18.0 points, and 8.3 rebounds, shot 50 percent from the floor and blocked seven shots... recorded her 100th career blocked shot in the championship game win over Southern Maine... in the NCAA tournament game, had 19 points and ten rebounds with four blocks... scored at least ten points in all but three games and recorded ten double-doubles... hit at least 60 percent of her shots 11 times... had at least one blocked shot in nine straight games, averaging 2.1 rejections in that span... named LEC Player-of-the-Week Jan. 7 after a 20-point, 15-rebound effort that included three blocked shots Jan. 3 against visiting Middlebury College... named to the weekly LEC honor roll five times... started all 28 games in which she appeared, missing only one... registered season career-highs in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots... blocked at least two shots in 15 games and had four three times... season-highs (p-r-a-b): 22-15-3-4
2006/07: Became only the fourth Eastern player in the 21-year history of the conference to be named first-team All-LEC as a sophomore... also earned a spot on the LEC All-Defensive Team... named team's Most Improved Player... despite coming off the bench, opened the season by earning a spot on the Eastern Tip-Off all-tournament team with two-game totals of 35 points and 14 rebounds... was 13-for-22 from the floor and 9-for-12 from the stripe and had only one turnover in 42 minutes in two tournament wins... named to the LEC honor roll on the final two reports of the season in February... missed only two games despite playing much of the season with broken bones in both hands... in her first season in a regular role, was second on the team in scoring (13.9) and rebounding (7.4) and first in blocked shots (42), and FG pct. (.559)... in the LEC, ranked first in FG pct., blocked shots (42) and blocks per game (1.68), fifth in scoring and rebounding, and tenth in FT pct. (.713)... scoring average never dipped below double figures after the ninth game of the year... posted double-figures in points in 15 straight games prior to the final game of the season... recorded double-doubles all five times she finished with at least ten rebounds... against UMass Boston Jan. 20, had a career-high 28 points, added 13 rebounds, was 9-for-16 from the floor and 10-for-12 from the foul line... had nearly a third of her blocked shots with a total of nine in consecutive games in mid-January... missed only one of 14 shots from the floor en route to 27 points Feb. 6 against Keene State in a game where she scored half of the team's points... hit all nine of her attempts in the second half of that game... beginning in mid-January, led or shared the team lead in rebounding eight times in a nine-game span... season-highs (p-r-a-b): 28-17-4-5
2005/06: The only post player among the four prominent freshmen... played in 25 of 28 games with one start... fifth on the team in FG attempts (138)... shot 52.2 per cent from the floor and 78.3 from the foul line... despite averaging only 14.2 minutes per game, averaged 7.2 points (tied for fourth on the team) and 4.8 rebounds (fourth on the team)... second on the team with 17 blocked shots... named LEC Rookie-of-the-Week Feb. 6... ranked in a tie for seventh in the conference in blocked shots per game (0.68) and tied for ninth in offensive rebounding (2.00)... began her career with a bang by scoring a season-high 22 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and blocking a season-high (later equalled) four shots in 24 minutes against CCNY in the opening game of the Eastern Tip-Off Tournament... recorded two additional double-doubles later in the season... season-highs (p-r-a-b): 22-15-1-4...
High School: Four-year starter on basketball team…fourth all-time school leading scorer…member of all-state team in ’04 and ’05…all-conference in ’04 and ’05…conference leading scorer during senior season…conference all-star team member in ’05…three-time team MVP…captained team as a junior and senior…team advanced to conference tournament quarter finals during junior season and second round of state tournament …four-year member of softball team…team made it to second round of state tournament all four seasons…captained team during senior season…three-year member of soccer team and one-year member of field hockey team…received student-athletic award for academic accomplishments…
Other: Played this past summer in the Springfield (MA) Women's Pro-Am League... has also played in the Plainville Summer League and for Northwest Express AAU basketball team...
PERSONAL: born Ashley N. McFetridge March 11, 1987 (21)…major: Sport and Leisure Management…minor: Communication…career plans: Public Relations... parents: Cynthia and Keith…residence: Canton, CT…
Career Statistics Thru 2008/09
ASHLEY...REVEALED
Your personal goal for the season: LEC champs, All-America
Favorite activity other than sports: Watching football
Keep one thing about Eastern: Student Center
Favorite movie: Dazed and Confused
Favorite actor: Jim Carrey
Favorite Olympic sport to watch: Women’s beach volleyball
What should be the penalty for athletes who test positive for drugs?:
End their season for that year
If you had a key to the world, where is the first place you would go: White House
Most difficult aspect of your sport: Mental toughness
Your choice as best athlete (any level) of all time: Michael Jordan
Your choice as greatest song or CD of all time: Don’t stop believin' by Journey
Favorite pro team: Boston Red Sox
If anyone could be your life coach, who would you choose?: Ellen
One thing you would like to do before you die: Meet Tom Brady
Greatest coach (any level) of all time: Pat Summit
Your favorite moment of all time (not necessarily sports-related):
Winning the Little East Conference
Most embarrassing moment of all time: Breaking both my hands
Something you would never be caught dead doing: Steroids
Favorite smell: Christmas Tree
Smartest animal: Monkey
Who were you or who do you hope you were in your first life? Wife of Tom Brady
Your greatest attribute: Height
What would you like to get paid to do for a living? Model
Job you consider the hardest or worst to do for a living: Port-o-let cleaner
Parent’s favorite entertainer: Pink Floyd
The word you always misspell: Definitely
What will be the price of gas a year from now? $3
Automobile you would buy tomorrow if you had the money: BMW 7 Series
Your contribution to the Green Movement: Shower with my roommates
Back to Women's Basketball Roster
Back to Women's Basketball |
