Soccer
Herndon, Ashley
Ashley Herndon
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- ashley.herndon@mso.umt.edu
- Phone:
- 546-7926
The 2025 season is Ashley Herndon’s fifth year as an assistant coach with the Montana soccer program.
She was hired in July 2021 after spending the previous spring season as a volunteer coach at her alma mater, James Madison.
In Herndon’s first four years at Montana, the Grizzlies won the Big Sky tournament in 2021 and advanced to their sixth NCAA tournament, and won back-to-back regular-season titles in 2023 and ’24.
The 2023 and ’24 teams went 13-0-3 in league to become the first Big Sky program to go unbeaten in consecutive seasons.
With Herndon overseeing the team’s offensive attack, Montana scored 27 goals in her first season on staff, in 2021, the most goals for the program since 2014.
The Grizzlies scored 25 goals in 2022, 33 in 2023, the most for the program since 2000, and 29 in 2024. Montana was shut out only eight times in 38 matches over the 2023 and ’24 seasons.
In 2023, Herndon coached Skyleigh Thompson to Big Sky Offensive MVP honors, while Delaney Lou Schorr was the league’s Golden Boot winner. Jen Estes was the co-Offensive MVP in 2024.
Thompson, Schorr and Estes were all United Soccer Coaches All-West Region selections.
A native of Ashburn, Va., Herndon was a four-time All-Mid-Atlantic Region selection for James Madison while playing for the Dukes from 2013-16.
She was voted the Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Year in 2013, first-team All-CAA as a sophomore, junior and senior, and the CAA Player of the Year in 2016.
Herndon finished her career with 37 goals and 27 assists. Nineteen of her goals were game-winners.
Herndon was named the CAA tournament MVP in 2015 as a junior after scoring four goals in three matches as the Dukes advanced to the NCAA tournament.
Following her junior season, she was invited to the U-23 Women’s National Team training camp. She was selected to represent the U.S. that summer at the Tournament of Nations in England.
After graduating from JMU, Herndon moved to Portland, Ore., where she was a practice player for the Thorns of the NWSL for a year.
From July 2018 to July 2019 she played for SK Slavia Prague in the Czech Republic’s top league. She later played for teams in Switzerland and Iceland.
She was hired in July 2021 after spending the previous spring season as a volunteer coach at her alma mater, James Madison.
In Herndon’s first four years at Montana, the Grizzlies won the Big Sky tournament in 2021 and advanced to their sixth NCAA tournament, and won back-to-back regular-season titles in 2023 and ’24.
The 2023 and ’24 teams went 13-0-3 in league to become the first Big Sky program to go unbeaten in consecutive seasons.
With Herndon overseeing the team’s offensive attack, Montana scored 27 goals in her first season on staff, in 2021, the most goals for the program since 2014.
The Grizzlies scored 25 goals in 2022, 33 in 2023, the most for the program since 2000, and 29 in 2024. Montana was shut out only eight times in 38 matches over the 2023 and ’24 seasons.
In 2023, Herndon coached Skyleigh Thompson to Big Sky Offensive MVP honors, while Delaney Lou Schorr was the league’s Golden Boot winner. Jen Estes was the co-Offensive MVP in 2024.
Thompson, Schorr and Estes were all United Soccer Coaches All-West Region selections.
A native of Ashburn, Va., Herndon was a four-time All-Mid-Atlantic Region selection for James Madison while playing for the Dukes from 2013-16.
She was voted the Colonial Athletic Association Rookie of the Year in 2013, first-team All-CAA as a sophomore, junior and senior, and the CAA Player of the Year in 2016.
Herndon finished her career with 37 goals and 27 assists. Nineteen of her goals were game-winners.
Herndon was named the CAA tournament MVP in 2015 as a junior after scoring four goals in three matches as the Dukes advanced to the NCAA tournament.
Following her junior season, she was invited to the U-23 Women’s National Team training camp. She was selected to represent the U.S. that summer at the Tournament of Nations in England.
After graduating from JMU, Herndon moved to Portland, Ore., where she was a practice player for the Thorns of the NWSL for a year.
From July 2018 to July 2019 she played for SK Slavia Prague in the Czech Republic’s top league. She later played for teams in Switzerland and Iceland.
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