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University of Detroit Mercy Athletics

2026 Women's Lacrosse Roster

22 Ashley Bates

22 Ashley Bates

  • Position:
    Defense
  • Height:
    5-10
  • Class:
    Graduate Student
  • Highschool:
    Gull Lake
  • Hometown:
    Richland, Mich.

Summary

Biography

A 5-year member of the women's soccer team, joining the lacrosse team at the start of the 2026 season

Career Highlights:
  • 4x Detroit Mercy Athletic Director's Honor Roll (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • 2X Horizon League Fall Academic Honor Roll (2023, 2024)
  • 2x Horizon League Spring Academic Honor Roll (2024, 2025)
2025 (Soccer):
  • Started all 17 games she saw action in on the defensive side
  • Played the second most minutes on the team in 1,308, playing all 90 minutes in 10 games
  • Attempted seven shots on the year

2024 (Soccer):
  • Did not see any action 

2023 (Soccer):
  • 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 (Soccer):
  • Saw action in 10 games while making two starts

2021 (Soccer):
  • 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:
  • The daughter of Jenny & Bill Bates
  • Has two sisters and a brother 
  • 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.
  • An Architecture major
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2026
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