As Chad Ashley enters his 11th season as head coach of the Hampton Hornets, he hopes to lead the team to the playoffs for just the third time in school history.
Ashley has been the head coach since the school opened its doors in 2014, and the team’s only trips to the postseason were in 2019 and 2022.
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