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2018 Women's Cross Country Roster

Ashaila Bunch

  • Height 5-0
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Hampton, Va.
  • Last School Phoebus HS

Biography

Personal Records
Indoor
Long Jump: 16-9 (High School)
Triple Jump: 37-5.25 (2016 UNC Open)
Outdoor
Long Jump: 17-1 (High School)
Triple Jump: 37-2.5 (2017 Fred Hardy Invite)
 
2018-19: Member of the NSU AD’s Honor Roll for both semesters and earned a spot on the MEAC All-Academic Team. Indoor: Notched a sixth-place finish in the 60m hurdles at the JDL DMR Invitational … Also competed in the meet at VMI and Liberty. Outdoor: Placed 11th in the triple jump at the Fred Hardy Invitational and 10th in the same event at the Virginia Grand Prix … Helped the 4x200 relay team place seventh at the Colonial Relays.

2017-18: Member of the NSU AD’s Honor Roll for both semesters and earned a spot on the MEAC All-Academic Team. Indoor: Opened the season with a fifth-place finish in the 60m hurdles (9.44) and 11th-place showing in the long jump at the Jack Pyrah Invitational (15-9.75) … Earned top-20 finishes in the triple jump at the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational and VMI Winter Relays. Outdoor: Claimed a fourth-place finish in the triple jump (35-8) at the Fred hardy Invitational and an eighth-place showing at the Colonial Relays (34-9.5) … Took fifth at the VSU Trojan Invitational (35-8.75) … Season-best jump was 36-9.5 at the Virginia Grand Prix, good for 12th place.

2016-17: Member of the NSU AD’s Honor Roll for the fall semester and earned a spot on the MEAC All-Academic Team. Indoor: Earned a trio of top-five finishes during indoor season … Posted a fifth-place showing at the Art & Linda Maillet UNC Open in the triple jump (34-7) … The following week at the CNU Captains Invitational, Bunch was fourth in the 60m hurdles (9.37 finals time) and fifth in the triple jump (35-1). Outdoor: Was a MEAC Outdoor Championship qualifier in the triple jump … Jumped a season-best 37-2.5 to take fourth place in the triple jump at Richmond’s Fred Hardy Invitational, a new outdoor PR … Also earned a top-10 at the Charlotte Invitational (36-5.5).
 
2015-16: Earned a spot on the NSU AD’s Honor Roll following the spring semester. Indoor: Qualified for the MEAC Indoor Championships in the long and triple jumps … Placed 14th at the MEAC meet in the long jump (16-3.25) … Season-best long jump was 16-8.5, which earned her eighth place at the CNU Holiday Open … Was third at the same meet in the 60 hurdles (season-best 9.05) … Was runner-up in the triple jump at the Art & Linda Maillet UNC Open (37-5.25) … Named to the NSU AD’s Honor Roll for the fall semester. Outdoor: Did not compete.
 
High School: Lettered four years in track and field … Helped Phoebus win the state title in the 4x100 meter relay her senior year and finish as the team runner-up at the meet … Placed fourth at the 4A South Regional meet in the long jump (17-1) and qualified for the state meet … Was region runner-up and sixth in the state in the triple jump during outdoor season … Conference champion and indoor state meet qualifier in the triple jump earlier in her senior season … Also qualified for the state outdoor meet in the triple jump as a junior … Also played two years of volleyball.
 
Personal: Ashaila T. Bunch was born on July 21, 1997 … Daughter of Calvin and Vandisha Bunch … Majoring in social work.

Historical Player Information

  • 2017Junior

    5'0"
  • 2018Senior

    5'0"