Career Honors & Awards
- Big Ten Player of the Week (2/13/12)
- NFCA All-Midwest Region Second Team (2010)
- All-Big 12 First Team (2010)
- Big 12 Player of the Week (5/11/10)
- Nebraska Record Holder for Walks in a Game (4)
- Nebraska Record Holder for Runs in a Game (4)
- Nebraska Record Holder for Most Consecutive Games with an RBI (10 in 2012)
- Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Nominee (1 of 30 in 2012)
- Big Ten Sportsmanship Award (2012)
- Heart and Soul Award (2012)
- Academic All-Big Ten (2012)
- Academic All-Big 12 First Team (2011)
- Four-Time Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll Selection
Career Capsule
Ashley Guile completed an accomplished career in 2012. She was an all-conference, an all-region and a two-time conference player of the week in her career. Guile also tied two Nebraska game records (walks and runs scored) and produced the longest RBI streak in school history. She finished her career with a .309 average with 35 doubles, one triple eight home runs, 118 runs scored and 103 walks.
A five-year player who missed her first crack at a sophomore season due to injury, Guile left her mark on the Nebraska career record book. In addition to posting the 18th-highest batting average in school history, Guile ended her career ranked second in school history in hit-by-pitches (26), fourth in walks and ninth in doubles and RBIs.
In the classroom, Guile earned her degree before her playing career was over, and she was one of Nebraska's most active student-athletes in the community. Guile was one of 30 national candidates for the 2012 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, and she earned Nebraska's prestigious Heart and Soul Award. Guile was a two-time academic all-conference honoree and she earned a Big 12 Sportsmanship Award as a senior.
Senior Season [2012]
Guile started 54 of Nebraska's 55 games as a senior, with all 54 starts coming at first base. She ranked third on the team with a .314 average and 49 hits and was fourth with eight doubles, 35 RBIs and 24 walks. She produced an RBI in 10 consecutive games in February, a school record that helped her earn the first Big Ten Player of the Week award of the season. She finished the year with 11 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI contests.
Guile enjoyed a terrific start to her season as she was batting .500 through the first 11 games of the season and was hitting .420 in early March. In Nebraska's first tournament, Guile went 11-for-20 at the Kajikawa Classic with one home run, eight RBIs and eight runs scored. She recorded three multi-hit games in the tournament, including a 3-for-4 performance with two RBIs in an upset of No. 8 Arizona and a 4-for-4 effort the next day against Cal State Northridge. She tied her career high in hits and added a home run against the Matadors, while also tying the school record with four runs scored. She wrapped up the opening tournament with a double and a pair of RBIs against No. 23 Georgia Tech.
Defensively, Guile was solid at first base, committing only six errors all season while posting a .978 fielding percentage. Off the field, Guile was an academic All-Big Ten selection and she was also honored for her work in the community. Guile was one of 30 national candidates for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award and she earned Nebraska's Heart and Soul Award, while claiming a Big Ten Sportmanship Award.
Junior Season [2011]
Guile was expected to be Nebraska’s primary designated player in 2011, but the junior ended up making a position move to first base, where she started 48 games. Overall, Guile started 54 of Nebraska’s 55 games, making her six other starts as the designated player. Guile began the year as one of 50 players nationally selected to the USA Softball Player of the Year preseason watch list after earning all-conference and all-region honors as a catcher in 2010.
Guile was a .283 hitter in her junior season with six doubles and 23 RBIs. She continued to find her way on base, posting a .380 on-base percentage thanks to 19 walks and six hit-by-pitches. She posted a career-long nine-game hitting streak in mid-March, going 14-for-29 during that stretch with eight RBIs. Guile finished the year with 11 multiple-hit games and five multi-RBI efforts, including a pair of four-RBI contests.
During the non-conference schedule, Guile batted .336 with 20 RBIs in 36 starts. Although her numbers dipped in conference play as Nebraska faced an All-America pitcher in 10 of its 18 league games, Guile ranked second on the team with 10 walks. She also struck out only eight times in conference play, as she was the only Husker to record more walks than strikeouts in Big 12 action.
Defensively, Guile adjusted well to her new position, committing only three errors.
Sophomore Season [2010]
After sitting out the 2009 season due to injury, Guile returned in a big way in 2010. The sophomore led the team with a .382 average, 15 doubles, 42 RBIs, 35 walks and a .520 on-base percentage. Guile’s breakout season was one of the top years for a sophomore in school history, as her doubles were the most ever by a Husker sophomore and her average ranked third.
The totals Guile put up as a sophomore also ranked among the best in Husker history, regardless of class. Her .382 average ranked eighth in school history – the highest mark since All-American Anne Steffan batted .388 in 2005. Steffan and Guile were the only two Huskers to hit .380 during the first decade of the 21st century. Guile also tied for fourth in the Nebraska record books with 15 doubles, while tying teammate Julie Brechtel for the single-season hit-by-pitch record (11). Guile also showed patience at the plate, drawing 35 walks, the sixth-highest total in Husker history. In a doubleheader with Central Michigan on Feb. 19, Guile walked seven times, including four times in game two to tie the Nebraska record for walks in a game. She delivered a two-run single in her official at bat against CMU.
Guile began the season as NU’s starting catcher, but the elbow injury that kept her out of the 2009 season forced her to move into the designated player role for most of the last month of the year. She started 39 games behind the plate, while also starting 10 games as the designated player and 10 games at first base. Guile, who hit .480 with a .594 on-base percentage and a .680 slugging percentage as the designated player, ranked among the top five Big 12 hitters in on-base percentage (third), average (fifth) and walks (fifth).
In league games only, Guile ranked third in doubles (five), fourth in hits (21), seventh in average (.404) and ninth in on-base percentage (.492). Her .404 average in Big 12 play was the fifth-highest mark ever by a Husker and the highest in six years.
Defensively, Guile committed only five errors in a team-high 359 chances to post a .986 fielding percentage, despite dealing with the elbow injury.
Guile’s standout season earned her first-team All-Big 12 honors and a spot on the NFCA All-Midwest Region second team. She was the first Husker catcher to earn first-team all-conference honors since Jenny Smith in 1997, and the first to earn a spot on the all-region squad since Smith in 1998.
Redshirt Season [2009]
Guile was expected to be a major contributor for Nebraska in 2009, but never saw the field. Guile was slowed early in the season while recovering from offseason elbow surgery on her throwing arm, and she elected to sit out the season as a redshirt. Although the injury limited her ability to work on certain aspects of her game, Guile focused on her conditioning and mental training.
Freshman Season [2008]
Guile immediately stepped into the middle of the Husker order, while earning starts at catcher (25 games), third base (3 games), first base (1 game) and designated player (21 games). She started the first 36 games before a concussion sidelined her in the middle of April and caused her to miss her only three games of the year.
Guile led the team with 25 walks, the most by a Husker freshman since three-time All-American Jennifer Lizama walked 26 times in 1997. Guile’s .383 on-base percentage ranked third on the team and was first among non-slappers. She drew more walks (25) than strikeouts (22) and was the only Husker to accomplish that feat. In clutch situations, she hit .294 with two outs while producing six RBIs. Guile finished the year with seven multi-hit games and three multi-RBI contests.
She recorded NU’s first walk, hit and RBI of the year against California in the season opener, then added NU’s first extra-base hit the same day against Idaho State. She hit safely in the first four games of the NFCA Leadoff Classic, adding a pair of doubles, three RBIs and the first three runs scored of her career. Guile enjoyed a breakout performance in seven games in Las Vegas, finishing with a .444 average (8-for-15) in the desert with five RBIs and a .600 on-base percentage. She recorded her first three multi-hit games in Las Vegas and also drove in a career-high three RBIs against Southern Utah.
Guile burst onto the scene in Big 12 play, recording three of NU’s six hits in a two-game series at Texas in the opening weekend of conference play. She hit safely in both games as part of a career-best six-game hitting streak where she went 9-for-19 with four RBIs. Later in the league slate, she hit her first career home run, a game-tying, seventh-inning solo shot against Kansas. Defensively, Guile committed only two errors in 180 chances, including only one at catcher.
Before Nebraska
Guile is the third Olathe East player to sign with Nebraska since the 2003 season. She was a four-time state champion at Olathe East and was named a 2006 first-team high school All-American by the NFCA. Guile was a repeat selection as a first-team All-American in 2007.
As a sophomore, Guile’s .624 on-base percentage in 2005 was an Olathe East record, a notable accomplishment for a program that has produced more than a dozen Division I players. She also boasts two of the top four season averages in school history, the top on-base percentage (.624 in 2005), the fourth-best slugging percentage (.864 in 2006), second-most RBIs (35 in 2006), third-most hits (45 in 2006), second-most doubles (14 in 2006 and 2007) and fourth-most triples (4 in 2006 and 2007).
Guile enjoyed an outstanding junior season in 2006, hitting .556 with 14 doubles, 35 RBIs, a .556 on-base percentage and an .864 slugging percentage. As a senior, she hit .507 with 14 doubles, four triples, 30 RBIs and an .826 slugging percentage while striking out just once in 69 at bats.
Personal
The daughter of Tony and Glenda Guile, Ashley Nicole Guile was born on June 30, 1989, in Overland Park, Kan. Ashley has one brother, Anthony. Ashley earned her degree in special education with a coaching endorsement in December of 2011.
|
Year |
Avg. |
GP-GS |
AB |
R |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
RBI |
BB |
SO |
OB% |
SLG% |
SB-ATT |
FLD% |
| 2008 |
.250 |
51-50 |
136 |
9 |
34 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
18 |
25 |
22 |
.383 |
.316 |
2-2 |
.989 |
|
2009 |
DNP |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|
2010 |
.382 |
59-59 |
157 |
18 |
60 |
15 |
0 |
4 |
42 |
35 |
18 |
.520 |
.554 |
0-0 |
.986 |
|
2011 |
.283 |
54-54 |
159 |
12 |
45 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
23 |
19 |
23 |
.380 |
.352 |
1-1 |
.987 |
|
2012 |
.314 |
54-54 |
156 |
28 |
49 |
8 |
0 |
2 |
35 |
24 |
16 |
.414 |
.404 |
2-2 |
.978 |
| Total |
.309 |
218-217 |
608 |
67 |
188 |
35 |
1 |
8 |
118 |
103 |
79 |
.428 |
.410 |
5-5 |
.985 |
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