Colorado Mesa University

Colorado Mesa University Athletics
1100 North Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501

Division 2 Colorado Southwest

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Ashley Delaney

Ashley Delaney was elevated to the head women's lacrosse coach during the Summer of 2023 after serving as the assistant women's lacrosse coach for the previous four seasons at Colorado Mesa.

In 2024, her first season in charge, Delaney led the Mavericks to a strong 11-6 overall record, including a second place 8-2 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference mark. The Mavs also advanced to the RMAC Tournament Championship game for the fourth straight year and had both the RMAC Attacker of the Year (Justine Anderson) and repeat RMAC Defensive Player of the Year (Kelsey Viger) lead the team.

As an assistant coach, a role she began during the 2019-20 academic year, Delaney also helped the Mavericks win a share of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference regular-season title in 2023.

Prior to her time with the Mavericks, she served a stint as an assistant coach at Muhlenberg College, a Division III school in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Delaney played collegiately at LIU-Brooklyn before moving out west to attend the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandise. During her time in California, she served as the director and head coach of TEAM Lacrosse Academy in Temecula. There she oversaw the elite high school, middle school, peewee, and developmental programs.

At CMU, Delaney also serves as an adjunct professor teaching sports marketing and intro to sport management courses.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in media art from LIU and her master’s degree in sport management through CMU. She also earned an associate’s degree in graphic design from FIDM.

Outside of lacrosse, She is an avid fan of Philadelphia teams including the Eagles and Phillies.

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Kiley Davis

Former Maverick standout midfielder Kiley Davis has returned to CMU and is in her first year as the Mavs’ assistant women’s lacrosse coach.

A native of Hampstead, New Hampshire, Davis earned IWLCA All-Midwest Region and All-RMAC honors in each of her three seasons from 2021-23 after beginning her collegiate career at Coastal Carolina University during the pandemic effected 2020 season.

She then played at Division I Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri as a graduate transfer during her fifth year of eligibility in 2024 and earned Second Team All-ASUN accolades, finishing second on the Lions’ squad with 45 goals and third with 53 points.

In her three seasons with the Mavericks, Davis scored 136 goals and recorded 167 points while starting all 48 of the Mavs’ games. Her goal and point totals are the fourth highest in program history. She also holds the CMU single-season record for shots at 120, set in 2023.

Davis was a leading member of the Maverick squad that won a share of the RMAC title that year and was named to the RMAC All-Tournament team in all three years of her CMU career. She also earned First Team RMAC All-Academic honors in both 2022 and 2023 and was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-District Team in her final season with the Mavericks.

Davis earned her bachelor’s degree in environmental science and technology at CMU and her master’s in business administration at Lindenwood.