Ashley Huston is far and away the top performer in the short history of the HSU track program.
She only competed on the track team for one season, the first season of the HSU women’s track program. She brought home three national titles and five all-American medals on the year.
She won the indoor pentathlon with an NCAA record of 3,725 points and the outdoor heptathlon with another NCAA record of 5,242 points. Both records still stand. She also claimed the outdoor high jump NCAA Championship. She was also an All-American in the indoor high jump and the outdoor long jump.
Huston was named the Honda Award Winner as the top Female Athlete in Division III in 2009 and was also the ASC Female Athlete of the Year.
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.
Her track career started at UTSA where she was a standout multi-eventer.
She came back to Hardin-Simmons for the 2007-08 school year to play on the basketball team. She led the Cowgirls to a 21-6 record in her one season. She was a second-team all-ASC selection but tore her anterior cruciate ligament at the end of basketball season in the 2007-08 school year.
After her knee was not ready for the start of basketball the next season, she decided to go out for the new track program.
