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#11 - Ashlee Crowder
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Class: Senior
Height: 5-11
Position: Outside Hitter
Hometown: Jenison, Mich.
High School: Jenison

Personal: Born Aug. 13, 1990...Parents are the late Donald Crowder and Kris VanTimmeren...Is a Physical Education major...Named to the Dean's List in 2010.

2010: Named First-Team All-American by the AVCA, the third Hillsdale College player in the past five years to earn the honor...Also became the third Charger to be named the GLIAC Player of the Year in the past five years...Named to the GLIAC All-Tournament Team and was AVCA First-Team All-Region and First-Team All-GLIAC for second year in a row...Ranked fifth in the GLIAC and first on the team in kills with 406...Had 10 or more kills in 27 of the team's 31 matches during the season...Had season-high 22 kills and a .513 hitting percentage in 3-1 win at Northwood Oct. 8...Ranks third on the school's career kills list with 1,230 and needs 434 to set a new school record.

2009: Established herself as one of the most highly honored players in Hillsdale College volleyball history in just her second season with the program...Named Third-Team All-American by the AVCA after earning First-Team All-Region honors by the AVCA and Daktronics...Led the Chargers to their first-ever GLIAC Tournament championship, and was named the Tournament MVP after racking up 26 kills in the tournament finals vs. Saginaw Valley State Nov. 15...Had 13 or more kills in the team's last 10 straight matches...Her 491 kills were the fifth-most in a single-season in school history and already ranks eighth on Hillsdale's career kills list with 824...First-Team All-GLIAC for the second year in a row, and was named to the Midwest Region All-Tournament Team...Named the AVCA Division II National Player of the Week on Sept. 20, the first Hillsdale player to ever earn the honor...Earned that award thanks to an incredible three-match week vs. Findlay, Wayne State and Northwood where she had a total of 56 kills and hit better than .400 for that week...Had 10 or more kills in 30 of the team's 32 matches.

2008: Named GLIAC Freshman of the Year after outstanding rookie season with Chargers...Named Second-Team All-GLIAC...First Charger to be named Freshman of the Year since Taryn Rudland in 2003...Led team with 333 kills...Finished third in the GLIAC in kills per set with a 3.43 mark...That puts her in Hillsdale's all-time top 10 list for most kills per set in a single season...Had 10 or more kills in the team's last 10 consecutive matches, and had 21 total matches with double-digit kills...Had a season-high of 17 kills on two occasions, vs. Saginaw Valley State on Oct. 11 and at Tiffin on Oct. 24...Hit a season-best .647 vs. Gannon on Sept. 6...Also led team in total points with 378.5...Tied for team lead with classmate Morgan Podkul with 25 service aces.

High School: Led Jenison High School to Class A state championship in 2007...Had 15 kills and hit .480 in state championship match...Three-year starter at Jenison and was named First-Team All-State by The Detroit News...A finalist for 2007 Miss Volleyball Award...Named honorable mention All-Conference in basketball and played softball...Member of the FaR Out Volleyball Club, one of the top clubs in Michigan...Member of the school’s honor roll, and served as a peer educator and won a leadership award from the school...Achieved 3.9 overall grade point average in high school.


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