Naval Academy Athletics

2024 // Junior Year
• Closed out the year tied for 2nd on the team with 5 extra-man goals
• Scored a goal and dealt out an assist in the Mids’ Patriot League Semifinal game against Lehigh
• Scored a pair of goals in Navy’s Patriot League Quarterfinals game against Loyola, including his 5th man-up goal 
• A sharp-shooting specialist on extra-man, he targeted both man-up shots he took in Navy’s overtime win against Bucknell
• Made the start at #12 Army for an injured Tommy Hovivian ... scored his second extra-man goal of the year on his only shot of the game
• Punched in a pair of goals in Navy’s win over Holy Cross, including his first-career extra-man goal ... his 2 goals were scored on 2 shots
• Dealt out an assist in the Mids’ 16-8 win over Hofstra

2023 // Sophomore Year
• Played in 8 games (3 starts) in 2023, scoring a goal in each of the first 5 games he played
• Closed out the year with 12 points on 8 goals on 4 assists, while also grabbing 8 ground balls and posting 2 caused turnovers
• Punched in a goal in Navy’s game against #9 Johns Hopkins
• Made his first-collegiate start in the Mids’ road game against Colgate where he scored 2 goals, added a pair of ground balls and recorded a caused turnover
• Scored off an assist from Xavier Arline in the Mids’ league opener against Lehigh ... it marked his first collegiate points against a Patriot League team ... also recorded his second-career caused turnover
• Punched in his fourth goal of the season on his only shot at High Point
• Was sensational against Queens where he led the team with a career-high 7 points on 3 goals and 4 assists ... he came into the game having scored just 1-career point ... scored his 3 goals on 5 shots

2022 // Freshman Year
• Made appearances in 6 contests, including making his collegiate debut in the Mids’ win over Mercer where he scored his first-career goal
• Recorded his first-collegiate caused turnover in the Mids’ regular-season finale against Bucknell
• Saw significant action at Lafayette as a member of the Mids’ second midfield

High School 
• 2021 graduate of Riverside High School in Lansdowne, Va.
• Majoring in Quantitative Economics
• Two-sport athlete who lettered in football (2) and lacrosse (4)
• Also played for the DC Express Lacrosse Club
• Two-time (2020, ‘21) All-District and All-Region lacrosse standout who garnered first-team accolades his senior year
• 2021 First-Team All-Loudoun County selection, he was named the LoCo Player of the Year, District Player of the Year and Region Player of the Year as a senior
• Earned 2021 US Lacrosse All-America honors
• Named the Riverside High School Scholar Athlete of the Year
• Led Riverside HS to the district and region titles his freshman, sophomore and senior years
• Riverside HS claimed the 2019 and ‘21 Virginia Class 5 State Championships
• Garnered All-District honors as a punter his junior year

Personal
• Son of Will and Kristan Ash
• HIs service assignment is Navy Pilot
• Major in Quantitative Economics, he owns a 3.13 grade-point average
• Has earned Commandant’s (F2021, F2022, S2023, F2023, S2024, F2024) and Dean’s (F2023, F2024) List accolades multiple times, while also being named to the Superintendent’s (F2022) List
• Also considered Bucknell and Lehigh
• Cousin, William Fitzkee, is a 2003 graduate of the Naval Academy
• Father, Will, is a graduate of Gettysburg College where he was a member of the lacrosse team
• Mother, Kristan, is a 1993 graduate of Gettysburg College where she was a member of the lacrosse team ... she was a four-year starter, multiple-year team captain and the team’s leading scorer
• Sister, Sydney, was a two-year (2019, ‘20) member of the Virginia Tech women’s soccer team before transferring to Ole Miss where she is a senior defender on the Rebels’ soccer squad ... did not play soccer in high school (played club), instead playing lacrosse where she was an All-State (Va.) performer