Ashley Edinger comes to Valpo as a graduate assistant next year.
Former Michigan City H.S. standout and University
of Illinois all-time digs leader Ashley Edinger will join the Valparaiso volleyball
staff next year as a graduate assistant, head coach Carin Avery announced today.
Edinger started every match in her career at Illinois at libero until
suffering a career-ending injury in late October against Purdue. Despite the injury, she concluded her Ilini
career as the school’s all-time digs leader with 1,921 career digs, good for
ninth all-time in Big Ten history. She
holds the top two spots on Illinois’
single-season digs chart, including a record 564 digs during her sophomore
year. A five-time Big Ten Defensive
Player of the Week, Edinger earned Academic All-Big Ten honors in each of her
seasons with the Ilini.
Prior to playing at Illinois,
Edinger was named one of the Top 50 “Senior Aces” and the top libero nationally
in her class out of high school by prepvolleyball.com. A three-time First Team All-State and
All-Area Player of the Year selection, she played for the USA Volleyball Youth
National Team that traveled to Chicago
in the summer of 2005 to play in the U18 World Championships. She also earned All-America honors stateside
at the USA Junior Olympic National Championships. Edinger concluded her career at Michigan City as the
school’s single-season and career record holder in kills, hitting percentage,
digs and service aces.
“We are so lucky to have found such a great person and
player like Ashley to help us out next season,” said Avery. “She will be a huge asset to this program and
hopefully will help our team get to the next level.”
Edinger majored in
molecular and cellular biology at Illinois and
plans to pursue a master’s degree in education at Valparaiso.
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