Ashley McCoy

By Decherica King

Ashley McCoy Houston junior, revealed an interesting fact about herself.While conducting an interview of Ashley McCoy in MCM 103, I was told a surprising detail about her.

Ashley McCoy was born In Wurzburg, Germany, a very long way from the city where she is considered a citizen of, Houston. Her dad became apart of the military at the age of 18, then he married her mother when they were 19 and they have been married for 27 years.

She lived in Germany with her parents until she was four years old. They then returned to the United States and lived in Watertown, New York. From there, Ashley’s parents moved to Temple, Texas, and finally relocated to Houston, where most of her mother’s relatives are from. Her parents opted for dual citizenship once they arrived to the United States. Ashley and her family have obviously traveled quite far during that span of their lives.

Ashley said that she “has faint memories, very faint memories,” of her living experience in Germany, since she was only four years old. Yet, she does have a bit of knowledge of the German culture and language.

In Houston, Ashley attended North Shore Senior High School and graduated in 2009. She is now a junior at SFA majoring in Political Science with a minor in Journalism.

She is also the ambassador for People to People, an organization that allows children to travel to various places during their summer breaks. This organization persuaded Ashley to pursue journalism because she would have to write about her different experiences while traveling with the children.