Huston Named ASC Female Athlete of the Year

RICHARDSON, Texas — Hardin-Simmons senior track star Ashley Huston is going to have to make some more room in her already crowded trophy case as she has been named the American Southwest Conference Female Athlete of the Year.

This award goes along with her national Field Athlete of the Year and national Division III Athlete of the Year (Honda Award) awards she has won in recent weeks. Huston joins Kendra Anderson in 2002 and 2003 as winners of the ASC Female Athlete of the Year by HSU student-athletes.

Huston had a banner year for the Hardin-Simmons track program, which was in its inaugural season. She won the indoor pentathlon and outdoor heptathlon and high jump NCAA Championships. She was also an All-American in the indoor high jump and the outdoor long jump.

She also won five events at the American Southwest Conference Championships and she was named the national field athlete of the year by the National Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. She also was named an academic all-district selection by CoSIDA and was an academic all-ASC selection. She was also the American Southwest Conference Field Athlete of the Year.

All of this came on the heels of her tearing her anterior cruciate ligament at the end of basketball season in the 2007-08 school year.

Huston has already graduated from Hardin-Simmons and is working as a coach at Cisco High School. She graduated with a 3.74 grade point average as an Education major.

McMurry track athlete Hann Ollison won the award on the men’s side. HSU’s Justin Feaster finished third in the balloting.

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