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Ashleigh Maerke

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Ashleigh Maerke
Title
Communications Graduate Assistant (FB, BSB)
Email
amaerk1@lsu.edu
Phone
(225) 578-8226
Hometown
New Orleans, La.
Alma Mater
LSU (2020)

Ashleigh Maerke (pronounced mur-key) enters her third season with Athletic Communications. Maerke is the secondary contact for the baseball team and both men’s and women’s golf.

Maerke earned a Graduate Assistantship to lead the social media efforts for baseball, men’s and women’s golf after serving as a student intern for two years.

For two seasons (2020-2021), Maerke led the social media efforts for LSU’s nationally recognized baseball team. She assisted in all media relations and social media strategy, which included the team’s Regional and Super Regional appearance in 2021.

Under her coordination, the LSU Baseball Twitter account became the first college baseball team to surpass 300,000 followers and remains the most followed program in college baseball on Twitter.

The New Orleans native graduated from LSU with her bachelor’s degree in Sociology in December of 2020 and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Liberal Arts.