Ashley Ford

Position: Assistant Coach

Ashley Ford enters her second season as a assistant coach for head coach Cindy Fisher and the Torero women's basketball program. Ashley will be responsible for assisting in guard development, day to day operations and she will have a major role in recruiting efforts.

Ford comes to the Toreros after serving for two seasons as a graduate assistant at the University of Nebraska. While with the Huskers as a graduate assistant, Ford helped the Huskers reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in 2010 and helped lead them to a 32-2 overall record. During the 2009-10 season, she also helped the team win the program's first Big 12 Championship, and also helped the team achieve the schools longest winning streak, 30 games, and helped the team achieve a program record No. 3 national ranking.

Ford was a stand-out on the Huskers women's basketball team for two seasons. As a senior in 2006-07, Ford provided excellent leadership and engineered Nebraska's drive to its first NCAA Tournament appearance in seven seasons. Her efforts included a career-high 13 points on 5-of-5 shooting from the field in NU's Senior Night win over Colorado on Feb. 27, 2007. She was a perfect 3-for-3 from three-point range and dished out a career-high seven assists in her final game at the Devaney Center, and she started in all 32 games as a senior.

Ford came to Nebraska after spending her first two collegiate seasons at Cloud County (Kan.) Community College, where she averaged 14.0 points, 4.6 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 3.3 steals per game as a sophomore at Cloud County in 2004-05. She led the T-Birds in scoring, assists and steals, while ranking third on the club in rebounding.

For her efforts, she earned second-team all-conference honors and was an NJCAA Region VI honorable-mention selection. She also shot a solid 34.8 percent from three-point range by knocking down 49-of-141 shots from beyond the arc.

In her junior college career, Ford led Cloud County to a 40-23 record, including a 15-16 mark as a sophomore. She started all 63 games at Cloud County for Coach Brett Erkenbrack. Ford was one of only two players in Cloud County history to score more than 725 points, grab more than 250 rebounds, dish out more than 250 assists and record more than 150 steals.

Ford led Cloud County to an impressive 25-7 record as a freshman in 2003-04 by averaging 9.3 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game. She claimed second-team All-Jayhawk West Conference accolades and was also an honorable-mention NJCAA Region VI pick.

Ford was a third-team Super-State selection as a senior guard at Lincoln Northeast in 2002-03. She enjoyed a strong senior season despite recovering from a torn ACL suffered the summer before her senior year of high school. In her final year as a Rocket, Ford averaged 15.3 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.2 steals per game.

Ford earned second-team Class A all-state honors as a junior and senior.

Ford was born Sept. 3, 1985, in Fort Rucker, Ala. She earned her bachelor's degree in communication studies in May of 2008. She claimed a spot on the Big 12 Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll in the fall of 2007.