Lindenwood University Athletics

Ashley Lawson enters her second year for the 2019 season.
 
Lawson was previously a member of the Southeast Missouri State University women’s gymnastics coaching for one year. As an assistant coach at Southeast Missouri, Lawson was the head balance beam coach that helped coach three gymnasts to qualify for the 2010 NCAA Regionals. Also while acting as the head balance beam coach, Lawson turned SEMO’s weakest event into its second-best event in just six months.

Prior to her time at Southeast Missouri, Lawson was a gymnastics coach for three years at Suncoast Gymnastics Academy out of New Port Richey, Florida and three years at Southern Starz Gymnastics out of Cape Coral, Florida. Her time at Suncoast was spent coaching levels 5-9 on all events and teaching beginner gymnastics to children ages 3-7. At Southern Starz, Lawson coached levels 4-10 on all events as well as coordinated strength and conditioning exercises for the gymnasts.

From 2001-2004, Lawson competed on the Redhawks gymnastics squad at Southeast Missouri. She holds the school record in four of the five individual event titles. She holds the bars (9.925), beam (9.975), floor (10.000), and all-around (39.550) records. She is one of just three gymnasts in school history to record a perfect ten in an individual event.

During her time at Southeast Missouri as a gymnast, she earned the team’s Most Valuable Gymnast all four seasons, and was named the Southeast Missouri State University Female Athlete of the Year in 2004.
 
Lawson graduated in 2005 from Southeast Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. She and her husband, David, have two sons, Chase and Bryce.