Stockton University Athletics

Updated 8/10/17

Ashley Parker is in her fourth year on the Stockton coaching staff and will serve as the assistant cross country coach this year after three years as head women’s cross country coach/assistant track & field coach. Last year, Parker was chosen NJAC Coach of the Year after her squad won the NJAC championship for the first time. She also led the Ospreys to their best ever at the NCAA Regionals (10th place) and helped Cassandra Hrusko and Alicia Belko become the program’s first two NCAA qualifiers.
 
Parker led the women’s cross country team to fourth place at the NJAC Championships and 20th in the NCAA Regionals in each of her first two seasons at Stockton. She moved up to the college level after six years on the staff at nearby Pleasantville High School, her alma mater. Parker was the head girls cross country, head girls outdoor track & field and assistant indoor track & field coach from 2008-14. During her first two years, she also served as an assistant boys track & field coach.
 
Parker was a highly accomplished student-athlete at Lincoln University from 2003-07. She collected a total of six All-American honors in track & field at Lincoln, highlighted by winning the 2006 national championship in the indoor 4x400 relay. Her 2006 indoor 4x400 quartet still holds the Lincoln school record of 3:51.08, which was set at the NCAA Championships.
 
Parker also was a top-three finisher in the 4x100 and 4x400 relays at the NCAA Division III outdoor meet in 2006. She was inducted into the Lincoln University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012 as part of its inaugural class.
 
Parker’s success on the track is rivaled only by her achievements as a student. In 2007, she was a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, becoming the first individual from a historically black college or university to reach that lofty status. Parker also earned ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America Third Team honors as a senior. She graduated magna cum laude from Lincoln with a degree in health science and later obtained her master’s degree in sports management/administration from Drexel University.