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University of Illinois system.
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Ashley Berggren
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Her club team is the Chicago Force. Basketball Having competed at Barrington High School, she would play collegiate basketball for the Illinois Fighting Illini women"s basketball program With Illinois, she helped the squad to its first-ever Big Ten Conference Title, while earning three straight All-Big Ten honors (1996 to 1998).
Her 2,061 career points after fifteen years is still good enough for second all-time.
She was also the first women"s basketball player to have her jersey retired by Illinois. Before she would join the ranks of professional women's football, Berggren was the second round pick of the Chicago Condors in the 1999 American Basketball League Draft.
She was one of five players on the roster that had connections to Chicago and was even immortalized on a trading card. Football At the 2013 IFAF Women's Worlds, Berggren would log one touchdown in a contest versus Sweden, while ranking sixth on the United States in receiving yards.
In the gold medal game versus Canada, she would compile three receptions for 34 yards.
In the national championship versus the Dallas Diamonds (of which several Dallas players were her teammates with Team United States of America), Berggren would catch a 20-yard touchdown pass from Sami Grisafe to give the Force a 26-0 advantage at halftime. Of note, she also had the opportunity to compete in the 2012 Word Federation of Advertisers National Championship game. Contested at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, it was the first women's football game ever held in an NFL stadium.
Berggren was a 2013 inductee into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Having served as the bench boss for the Schaumburg girls basketball coach for four seasons (leading them to back-to-back winning seasons), she did not return for the 2013-2014 season as her teaching position was no longer available. Currently an assistant coach at North Central College in Napierville, Illinois.
Big Ten Women"s Basketball Player of the Year (1997).
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Of the Women"s Football Alliance Prior to her career in football, Berggren was a member of the Chicago Condors of the American Basketball League (American Basketball League).
