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Utah Valley University

Benjamin Ashton

Biography

Ben’s first competitive ultimate experience was The Orem Killjoys, which was the first Utah Club team to make nationals in 2021, a couple years later he joined Shrimp, which is the second Utah team to make nationals in 2024. Ben has played all 4 years on the Salt Lake Shred. Ben attended U24 tryouts in 2022. Ben has built 2 ultimate programs. 1, his high school team, Bingham had a dying program, when Ben came in, he revitalized it and even after graduating in 2019, the team is still going strong. Similarly, Ben arrived at Utah Valley University in 2021 where there was no formal team. Ben built the team and led them to the programs first regional appearance in Fall 2021. Now a few years later in 2025 UVU is a national contending team.