Ashley Luke is Academic All-America of the Year

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It was mentioned elsewhere, but thought it deserved it's own post.
Ashley Luke Named Capital One Academic All-America of the Year

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This in addition to her academic honors (including being named the University's Lincoln Laureate last fall) as well as her athletic honors (league player of the week 5 times, female athlete of the month for december, etc.)

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She's a great student, a great athlete, and a great representative of Western Illinois University.

And....she's only a Junior (in terms of athletic eligibility.)
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Definitely agree that Ashley deserves her own thread here! If she repeats next year, she'll be on par with Maya Moore from Connecticut. In my book though, way ahead, as be the end of next season she will have completed her Master's.
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Today has been named "Ashley Luke Day" in Macomb:

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Ashley probably won't trust me with the key to the City. Drats, would be fun to borrow :D
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Story about Ashley Luke as seen on WGEM Sports with Ben Marth:
http://www.wgem.com/story/28254024/2015 ... nt-athlete

Story about Ashley Luke as seen on KHQA Sports with Will Wilson:
http://www.connecttristates.com/sports/ ... PZ3Qmc5Bjo
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And the awards keep rolling in. Not surprisingly, Ashley was named the Summit League Women's BBall player of the year.
http://www.thesummitleague.org/sports/w ... _allleague
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The season may be well over, but that doesn't mean Ashley Luke isn't getting even more recognition.

She's featured in this week's Sports Illustrated in the "Faces in the Crowd" section:
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Well deserving. And glad to see WIU billboards taking advantage of the perfect poster child.
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