Ashlyn Watkins

Ashlyn Watkins is an American college basketball player for the South Carolina Gamecocks of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

High school career
Watkins attended Cardinal Newman High School in Columbia, South Carolina, where she led the basketball team to four straight SCISA class 3A state titles. She was named a McDonald's All-American and the South Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year in 2022. Watkins won the McDonald's All-American Dunk Contest.

Watkins started dunking in middle school while attending Cardinal Newman.

College career
In March 2022, Watkins won the Powerade JamFest dunk contest.

On November 17, 2022, Watkins stole the ball in the closing seconds of No. 1 South Carolina's 85–31 road win against Clemson. Once in possession of the ball, Watkins dribbled the ball to the basket and slammed it, the first dunk in South Carolina women's basketball history.

College

 * style="text-align:left;"| 2022–23
 * style="text-align:left;"| South Carolina
 * 32||0||10.7||56.3||33.3||46.9||3.1||0.4||0.7||0.8||0.9||4.9
 * style="text-align:left;"| 2023–24
 * style="text-align:left;"| South Carolina
 * 38||9||20.6||55.0||0.0||55.6||7.4||1.1||1.3||2.4||1.5||9.2
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
 * 70||9||16.0||55.4||25.0||52.7||5.4||0.8||1.0||1.7||1.2||7.3
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.
 * - class="sortbottom"
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.