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Ashley Cathro

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Ashley Cathro
Cathro in 2025
Personal information
Full name Ashley Madison Cathro
Date of birth (2000-01-19) January 19, 2000 (age 26)
Place of birth Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Height 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)
Position Defender
Team information
Current team
 AFC Toronto
Number 19
Youth career
Prospect Lake SC
2015–2018 Whitecaps FC Girls Elite
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2023 Illinois Fighting Illini 78 (0)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018 TSS FC Rovers
2019 Vancouver Island FC
2021 San Antonio Athenians
2022 Racing Louisville FC B 9 (2)
2025– AFC Toronto 28 (0)
International career‡
2016-2017 Canada U17 7 (0)
2019 Canada U18 1 (0)
2018-2021 Canada U20 4 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of July 14, 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of July 9, 2019

Ashley Madison Cathro (born January 19, 2000) is a Canadian soccer player who plays for AFC Toronto in the Northern Super League.

Early life

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Cathro began playing soccer at Prospect Lake SC,[1] before later joining the Whitecaps FC Girls Elite and was named the 2016 BC Soccer Youth Player of the Year.[2] In 2017, she played for Team British Columbia at the 2017 Canada Summer Games.[3]

College career

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In 2018, Cathro began attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she played for the women's soccer team.[4] On August 16, 2018, she made her collegiate debut, starting against the North Carolina Tar Heels.[5] At the end of her first season, she was named to the Big Ten Conference All-Freshman Team.[6] She redshirted the 2019 season, extending her eligibility another season.[2] She was a four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection (2019 to 2022) and a Big Ten Distinguished Scholar in 2019-20.[2] Cathro holds the team's record for the most Big Ten starts with 48.[7]

At Illinois, she earned a Bachelor of Science in kinesiology and a Masters in Public Health.[1] Afterwards, she then began a PhD in Community Health.[8] She is published on a peer-reviewed academic journal publication, titled Progress in physical activity research, policy, and surveillance in Canada: The global observatory for physical activity – GoPA![9]

Club career

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In the summer during the college offseason, Cathro played with TSS FC Rovers in the Women's Premier Soccer League.[10] In 2019, she joined Vancouver Island FC in the WPSL.[11]

In 2021, she played for the San Antonio Athenians in the UWS.

In 2022, Cathro played with Racing Louisville FC B in the USL W League.[12]

In January 2025, Cathro signed with Northern Super League club AFC Toronto.[8][7] She made her debut on May 1, 2025, against Calgary Wild FC.[13]

International career

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Cathro represented the Canada U17 and Canada U20 including at the 2016 CONCACAF FIFA Women's U17 Championship in Grenada and the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Jordan. [8] The 2016 Four-Nation Youth Tournament in China PR.

The 2017 U20 Three-Nations Tournament in Australia. The 2018 U20 CONCACAF Championship in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2019, she was selected for an international series at St. George's Park in Burton, England to face Northern Ireland and England.

In February 2017 and November 2021, she was called up to a pair of training camps and friendlies in Mexico with the Canada senior team, but did not make an appearance.[14][15]

References

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  1. 1 2 "Ashley Cathro signs with AFC Toronto after impressive soccer journey". Prospect Lake Soccer Club. Facebook. February 1, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ashley Cathro Illinois profile". Illinois Fighting Illini.
  3. ↑ "Eight Whitecaps FC Girls Elite REX players named to Team BC for 2017 Canada Games". Vancouver Whitecaps FC. July 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Signed - Ashley Cathro". Illinois Fighting Illini. February 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Illini Strike First in Season-Opening Loss to No. 6 North Carolina". Illinois Fighting Illini. August 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Six Illini Honored by Big Ten Conference". Illinois Fighting Illini. October 26, 2018.
  7. 1 2 "AFC Toronto Signs Former Canadian Youth National Team Player Ashley Cathro". AFC Toronto. January 30, 2025.
  8. 1 2 3 "Cathro, Barnett sign with AFC Toronto, bringing NSL team roster to 18". Toronto Star. January 30, 2025.
  9. ↑ Cathro, Ashley; Spence, John C.; Cameron, Christine; Varela, Andrea Ramirez; Morales, Diana; Kohn, Eduardo Ribes; Pratt, Michael; Hallal, Pedro C. (October 17, 2024). "Progress in physical activity research, policy, and surveillance in Canada: The global observatory for physical activity – GoPA!". BMC Public Health. 24 (1): 2866. doi:10.1186/s12889-024-20322-1. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 11487859. PMID 39420310.
  10. ↑ McColl, Michael (April 4, 2018). "Canadian National Team players Jordyn Huitema and Julia Grosso headline first TSS Rovers WPSL roster". Away from the Numbers.
  11. ↑ Dheensaw, Cleve (May 17, 2019). "Vancouver Island FC takes first kick at Women's Premier Soccer League". Times Colonist.
  12. ↑ "Ashley Cathro USLWL Stats". USL W League.
  13. ↑ Ko, Mathew (May 2, 2025). "Match report: AFC Toronto defeat Calgary Wild FC 2-1 to earn first win of the season". Total Soccer News.
  14. ↑ Dheensaw, Cleve (February 3, 2017). "Victoria's Cathro part of youth movement on Canadian women's soccer team". Times Colonist.
  15. ↑ Dheensaw, Cleve (November 30, 2021). "Victoria's Ashley Cathro on Canadian soccer roster for Mexico games". Times Colonist.
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