Rhodes Athletic Hall of Fame
Ashley Farrell, a four-year standout for the Lynx women’s basketball team and a two-time captain, garnered the Rebecca Rish Gay Award her senior year, after beginning her collegiate career as the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Newcomer of the Year.
As a first-year, she averaged 13.4 points per game, going 33-of-69 from beyond the arc. That year she was the only first-year player named to the All-SCAC squads.
Farrell came back firing hot her sophomore season. She led all of NCAA Division III in three-point field goal percentage and still holds the SCAC record, going 47-of-78 (.618). She averaged 14.7 points per game to help propel her team to an 18-8 season, the most wins in school history at the time, earning her first-team All-SCAC and All-Region accolades.
During her junior campaign, Farrell averaged 19.0 points per game and was first-team AllSCAC and All-Region before picking up honorable mention All-American honors by DIII News. Despite missing four games her senior year due to injury, she still averaged 18.0 points per game and earned second-team All-SCAC honors.
“Ashley Farrell is one of the greatest basketball players to ever put on a Lynx uniform, and one of the finest student-athletes in the history of the college,” says former Lynx head coach Matt Dean. “She was a tremendous leader, great teammate, and the best shooter I ever coached. Ashley was the type of player that made everyone around her better, and it was a blessing to have the opportunity to coach her for four years.”
Farrell totaled 1,622 points and was the 11th all-time leading scorer in SCAC history, and is the fourth all-time scorer at Rhodes. She is Rhodes’ all-time career three-point field goal percentage leader (.435) and is third all-time in the SCAC record books.
For achieving national recognition and etching her name in the conference and institutional record books, and for her leadership qualities throughout her career, we are honored to induct Ashley Farrell Galmish into the Rhodes College Athletic Hall of Fame this 15th day of November, 2019.
