Ashlee Kelly ’04 finished her career at Quinnipiac as one of the most decorated and prolific players in program history. The Northeast Conference Player of the Year in 2002-03, she became the first Quinnipiac women’s basketball student-athlete to win the conference’s highest honor at the Division I level and QU’s first since Francine Perry in 1985. With career averages of 15.5 points (54.7 FG%) and 10.8 rebounds across 101 career games, she ranks fourth all-time and third at the Division I level in points (1,580) and third all-time and second at the Division I level in career rebounds (1,107). Kelly was the second player in Quinnipiac history to reach 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds for her career. As a senior, she led all NCAA Division I women’s basketball players with an average of 13.5 rebounds per game. Kelly finished her career as a two-time Northeast Conference First Team selection and also was named to the Northeast Conference 25^th Anniversary Women’s Basketball Team in 2008. Inducted into the Quinnipiac University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014, Kelly led the Bobcats to 65 victories and four straight trips to the Northeast Conference Tournament in her four-year career. An instant impact player from her first season, Kelly is one of just four players in program history to average double figures in scoring all four years at Quinnipiac. She also remains the only player in the near 40-year history of Quinnipiac women’s basketball to make at least 50 percent of her field goal attempts in all four seasons as a Bobcat. A brilliant free throw shooter, Kelly still ranks first on the all-time career record list at Quinnipiac with 476 made free throws. Following her collegiate career, Kelly became the first Quinnipiac women’s basketball alum to play professionally. After graduating in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice, Kelly starred for the Perik Jumpers in Holland, leading the country in scoring and rebounding over the 2004-05 season. Currently the associate head coach for the Iona women’s basketball team since 2009, Kelly also enjoyed a head coaching stint from 2006-09 at Mercy College where she also filled the role of Interim Co-Director of Athletics for the 2007-08 academic year.