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Article: Ashton: Just your run of the mill, one-of-a-kind athlete.
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- Sun Journal (New Bern, NC)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2006
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Byline: Mandy Schulz
Jun. 29--You just don't find many people like Erin Ashton. Heather Henson realized that when she coached Ashton -- for the first time -- on the U-13 soccer team for the North Carolina Olympic Development Program. On the ODP team, which boasts the best players in the state, a skinny but scrappy kid caught Henson's attention. "She was one of the littlest ones," Henson said. "She was the feistiest little player."
Eventually, Ashton would play for Henson again. This time, it would be on the East Tennessee State University soccer team, where Ashton rewrote the record books by the time she graduated in 2006.As a midfielder and a ...