The 6-foot, 155-pound senior distance talent led the Danes to third place as a team at the GHSA 7A State Cross Country Championships this past season, breaking the tape with a time of 15:45.78. Ashley also won the Eastbay South Regional in a personal-best 15:00.31 and finished 23rd at national Eastbay Cross Country Championships in 15:52.30, earning Second Team All-American honors in the process. He also won the Championship race at the prestigious Coach Wood Invitational (15:01.39). The state’s top finisher at both Eastbay South and Eastbay nationals, Ashley was the Atlanta Track Club All-Metro Boys Runner of the Year. He concluded his prep career as a 2021 MileSplit50 Honorable Mention selection and ranked No. 57 in the national Dyestat Top 100.
Ashley has maintained a 4.19 weighted GPA in the classroom. He has been admitted to the United States Air Force Academy, where he will compete in track and cross country beginning this fall.
A leader in his local Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter and vice president of his school’s National Honor Society program, Ashley is also a member of the Future Business Leaders of America. He has served for three years as a Dane Director, a community-service team of school leaders selected by teachers, as well as on the Superintendent’s District Advisory Board. He has volunteered locally on behalf of a local food pantry, served two years in the children’s ministry of his church community and founded a middle school cross country team to which he donated his time as coach.
