Irish: Ashleigh Chiaf signs with Missouri...
Posted November 11, 2010 by Bob Przybylo
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By Robert Przybylo
BPrzybylo@opubco.com
Bishop McGuinness senior Ashleigh Chiaf signs to play tennis for Missouri.
It’s like a tennis factory there at Bishop McGuinness. They take them from the assembly line, teach them and send them off to a Division I school.
OK, maybe that’s overstating it, but what the Irish girls program has done there is incredible. Twelve consecutive team championships and most of them haven’t even been close.
It will be weird to not see Mia Lancaster, Emily Conrad and Whitney Ritchie out there, but Ashleigh Chiaf still remains.
As a freshman, she never once corrected the spelling of her first name. I had it ‘Ashley’ the entire way. I don’t make that mistake anymore as many times as I’ve typed it.
She’s a three-time champ, gunning for No. 4 this spring.
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