WBB: Ashley Joens wouldn’t trade her time at Iowa State for anything

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Ashley Joens’ profession in Ames has come to a detailed.

The three-time all-American, four-time all-Massive 12, two-time Cheryl Miller Award, the 2023 Massive 12 Event’s Most Excellent Participant and 2023 Massive 12 Participant of the Yr has performed her final recreation in an Iowa State uniform.

“I wouldn’t change it for the world,” Joens mentioned. “I really like Iowa State, my teammates and my coaches. I’ve been blessed to be right here and get the chance to play together with this group.”

She’ll be remembered as probably the greatest basketball gamers to ever go well with up for Iowa State.

That’s on each the ladies’s and males’s sides.

“Ash is actually probably the greatest basketball gamers I’ve ever coached, ever been round or ever seen,” Iowa State coach Invoice Fennelly mentioned. “She’ll go down as one of many best school girls’s gamers ever. The honors, the data… we may sit right here all day and discuss them.”

On high of the overarching and prolonged checklist of accolades Joens collected, she was as a lot of part of the very best moments this system has seen in her 5 years in Ames.

“She’s been somebody that confirmed up daily and did every thing we requested her to do,” Fennelly mentioned. “She put this group on her again, particularly after (Stephanie Soares) bought harm. It’s simply been a pleasure to be round her. She’s an amazing individual and he or she’ll be very profitable it doesn’t matter what she finally ends up doing in life.”

Behind a Candy 16 run, five-straight NCAA Tournaments (with one canceled on account of COVID-19), and quite a few wins in opposition to rivals Texas, Baylor and Iowa, Joens helped ship some nice nights to be a Cyclone.

The highest of the checklist might have come per week in the past in Kansas Metropolis.

“Enjoying with this group, clearly profitable a Massive 12 championship was a purpose we had and to have the ability to do this was actually enjoyable and an ideal success,” Joens mentioned of her favourite reminiscence.

What’s up subsequent for Joens – apart from making ready for April’s WNBA draft – hasn’t been determined but.

“I’ll determine it out, I don’t know, tomorrow,” Joens mentioned in the identical concise phrases she had for 5 seasons.

She simply needs to go work and after the sting of this loss fizzles out, she’ll be on to a brand new job.

“Not the way in which we needed the season to finish, however wanting again it was an ideal 5 years,” Joens mentioned. “I wouldn’t change it for the world.”