Wofford women’s basketball head coach Jimmy Garrity announced today the addition of Ashley Raley-Ross as a new assistant coach to his staff. Raley-Ross comes to Wofford after serving as a coach and trainer in Hong Kong for the past year.
“We are really excited to have Ashley join our coaching staff and program,” said Garrity. “She has so much experience in the sport of basketball. She’s been a head coach in AAU, high school and at the collegiate level. Everywhere she’s been she has had tremendous success in developing athletes both on and off the court. Relationships are extremely important to Ashley, and I know she’s going to be a great fit for our program and the Wofford community.”
Raley-Ross has been in Hong Kong since May 2021 when she began working with C2Sports. She has served as the head coach of the U16 New Generation 2nd Division team and as an assistant coach with the U25 Tsuen Wan 2nd Division team and the Division 2 Tsuen Wan men’s pro team. In addition to these coaching duties, Raley-Ross has served as a trainer. With Tsung Tsin Primary School, she has been a teacher, trainer and coach, aiding young students with learning both basketball and English.
Before leaving the United States, Raley-Ross served as the head women’s basketball coach at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte, N.C. from 2019-20. Her squad tied for first place in the EMAC conference and featured two USCAA All-Americans and two players who were named EMAC Co-Player of the Year.
Raley-Ross began her coaching career with Providence Day School in Charlotte as the head girl’s junior varsity coach in 2011. Since then, she helped coach multiple high school and AAU teams in the Charlotte area before leaving the United States for the first time in 2018 to become an assistant coach and trainer for the U15 and U17 teams with ŽKK Trešnjevka 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia. She then returned to Charlotte to join Johnson and Wales in 2019.
Ashley Raley-Ross earned her Bachelor of Science in Corporate Communications in 2010 from Queens University in Charlotte where she was also a student-athlete on the women’s basketball team. She now returns to the Carolinas to assume her new duties with the Wofford women’s basketball team.
