Career Highlights:
- Four-time Detroit Mercy Athletic Director Honor Roll selection
- Three-Time Horizon League Fall and Spring Honor Roll selectionÂ
- 3x IWLCA Scholar-Athlete Award (2024, 2025, 2026)
2024:
2023:
• Started in all 15 games played
• Tied for third on the team in goals (3) and ranked sixth in points (6) from her defensive position
• Helped anchor the back line to four shutout wins on the season.
• Posted first goal of the season in 3-3 draw against CMU (8/17).
• Scored the game-winning goal in 4-2 win against Chicago State (9/8).
• Third goal came at RMU (9/30)
2022:
• Saw action in 10 games while making two starts
2021:
• Didn't see action
High School:
• A 2021 graduate of Gull Lake High School.
• Lettered in all four years in soccer and two years in basketball for the Blue Devils.
• Tabbed Most Improved Player, All-Conference and All-District as a sophomore, helping her team reach the state semifinals.
• Played club with Kalamazoo Kingdom for most of her prep career and guided her team to a first-place finish in the MSPSP P1 in 2019 and second the following season.
• Part of National Honors Society and Spanish National Honors Society.
Personal:
Full name: Ashley Nicole Bates
Parents: Jenny & Bill Bates
Siblings: Ali, Kyle and Kayla
• Has several family members play collegiately, including her father, who was a pitcher at Eastern Michigan and both of her grandfathers, one who played professional baseball for Atlanta and another who was a quarterback at Western Michigan.
Major: Architecture
