Chartiers Vally’s second-year coach Ashley Battle, is a North Side Manchester, native who attended high school at Linsly School in Wheeling, W. Va., and played professionally in the WNBA and Europe. She won three national championships at UConn and was Big East Defensive Player of the Year in 2002-03.
The former first round draft choice in the WNBA has played at the highest level and with and against some of the sport’s greatest players and the game has taken her all over the world.
“I first heard about Ashley Battle from Carl Kohlman, who ran the Ozanam Basketball League and AAU teams,” said sports historian Eddie Jefferies. “One year Carl had Guards Karen Hall and Suzie McConnell Serio on the same team and opposing coaches complained that their teams couldn’t get the ball across half court.”
In high school Battle played on an undefeated team and she set school records in points, rebounds, assists, steals and was named to the All-American team.
In college she won three national championships and was part of a core of freshmen that was dubbed the “Fab Three” made up of Battle, Marla Conlon and Diana Taurasi.
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