As announced by the Great Midwest Athletic Conference on Monday (Nov. 2) afternoon, three Ashland University student-athletes – junior
Caden Davis, senior
Kylee Urban and sophomore
Tom Woodward – are part of the latest set of league Athletes of the Week.
Davis is the Great Midwest's men's swimming and diving Athlete of the Week for the second time in a row. In helping the Eagle men move to 3-0 in duals this season following a 177-120 win over Oberlin at the Messerly Natatorium on Friday (Oct. 30) night, Davis won the men's 50-yard freestyle (22.55 seconds) and 50 butterfly (23.25), and also was part of the victorious men's 200 medley relay (1:37.36) and men's 200 free relay (1:28.81).
Ashland's men and women will close the first semester at Davenport's three-day Don Kimble Invite on Nov. 20-22.
Urban is the fourth AU volleyball player to be named the Great Midwest East Division Athlete of the Week this season after her efforts in a 3-1 win at Malone on Tuesday (Oct. 27). She collected 28 assists, 11 digs, four service aces and four kills while splitting serving duties against the Pioneers.
The East Division-champion Eagles, who have clinched a home Great Midwest Tournament quarterfinal match on Nov. 10 at 6 p.m., will return to the Sherrill Hudson Court at Kates Gymnasium for the first time in nearly five weeks for Senior Night, Friday (Nov. 6) at 6 p.m. vs. Ohio Dominican (21-6, 11-3).
Woodward is the men's soccer offensive Athlete of the Week for the second time in 2026 after an impressive season-ending goal display in AU's 4-2 win over Ohio Dominican on Tuesday at Ferguson Field. Woodward scored four times in the fourth, 23
rd, 52
nd and 55 minutes, and ended the fall as the conference's leading goal-scorer with 12.
The Ashland men concluded 2026 at 7-10-1 overall and 5-8-1 in the Great Midwest.
2026-27 ASHLAND UNIVERSITY GREAT MIDWEST ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
AUG. 31 –
Jaime Duran (men's soccer defense),
Jenna Shedden (East Division volleyball).
SEPT. 8 – Ava Parrett (women's cross country).
SEPT. 14 – Tessa Blain (women's soccer offense),
Jenna Shedden (East Division volleyball).
SEPT. 21 – Braeden Geist (men's cross country),
Jenna Shedden (East Division volleyball),
Jack Talkington (football defense),
Tom Woodward (men's soccer offense).
SEPT. 28 – Wes Taylor (men's cross country).
OCT. 5 – Hayden Clark (men's soccer offense),
Abbey Queen (East Division volleyball).
OCT. 12 – Reese Landis (women's cross country).
OCT. 19 –
D.J. Harvey (football offense),
Mark Pillar (men's golf).
OCT. 26 – Caden Davis (men's swimming & diving),
Riley Hunt (women's swimming & diving),
Reese Landis (women's cross country),
Livi Miller (East Division volleyball),
Wes Taylor (men's cross country).
NOV. 2 – Caden Davis (men's swimming & diving),
Kylee Urban (East Division volleyball),
Tom Woodward (men's soccer offense).
