'I didn't know how he would respond,' said IndianaVB great, Ashley Benson. 'Here he is one of the greatest basketball players at Indiana... ever.' And here she was ready to tell her father the sport he loved was not the sport she loved. IndianaMBB IU
"I just remember thinking, 'I am not having fun anymore. This is not where I want to be,'" Ashley, now 33, said."'I can beYet, inside those summer open gyms for volleyball, Ashley felt alive. This was a sport she could be great at. But how could she tell her dad? He loved basketball. HeTrembling and shaking, Ashley walked in for that father-daughter talk."I struggled to get up the courage. I didn't know how he would respond," said Ashley.
And on Friday, Ashley became the first volleyball player to be inducted into the IU Athletics Hall of Fame. "People would just tell stories and just seeing that excitement he brought to those people, the joy that came from their faces. The light that just beamed off them," she said."I was like, 'I want to do what he did. I want to make something happen, to carry on his legacy.'"
Kent Benson had another idea."I struggled with her going to IU," he said. Benson wanted his daughter to play at Purdue, under legendary coach Dave Shondell. He and Benson were good friends. He saw where Shondell had taken that program. "She was a kid growing up in Indiana, her dad was an All-American here and I think she just bleeds it," Dunbar said as she coached Ashley from 2007 to 2010."She just loves Indiana. And the great thing about Ashley is that everything she does is with this program in mind and her desire to leave it better than how she found it."Kent Benson can't remember his hall of fame call, the one in 1989."It's been so long ago," he says.
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