ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Ashley Schnell ran cross-country and track at UNCG, competing from 2010-12. Schnell never lost a race at a Southern Conference Championship, resulting in six individual conference titles (two in cross-country, two in indoor track, and two in outdoor track), two relay conference titles, and UNCG’s first women’s conference team title in cross-country.
She is just one of seven runners in Southern Conference history who has won the individual title more than once and remains the only woman in UNCG history to win a SoCon cross country individual title.
Schnell is a two-time track NCAA qualifier and a one-time cross country NCAA qualifier. She remains the only UNCG woman to ever qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Championships, where she was just seconds away from All-America honors.
Schnell was selected SoCon Runner/Athlete of the Week nine times, SoCon Runner/Athlete of the Month four times and SoCon Runner of the Year two times.
In 2011 when she won the SoCon Cross Country Championship for the second straight year, her time set a new school record by 46 seconds and a new league record by 20 seconds.
At the time of her graduation, Schnell held 11 UNCG records and three SoCon Championship records. She still stands #1 all time at UNCG in the cross country 5k and 6k; Indoor 800m, mile, 3,000m, and DMR; Outdoor 800m, 3,000m, 5,000m, and 10,000m. Schnell is also the only woman in UNCG history to hit an Olympic Trials qualifying time (10,000m).
Schnell graduated with a May 2012 with a 4.0 as a music performance major (violin). She was Second Team CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-America (2012) and third team (2011), USTFCCCA All-Academic Honoree, SoCon Academic All-Conference Team, NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship, SoCon Dorothy Hicks Graduate Scholarship and 2012 NCAA Woman of the Year Nominee.
*All stats were as of the date of induction.
