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May the best woman win.Tattoo artist Ryan Ashley said those words to fellow tattooer Kelly Doty after both women were named to the live, three-finalist Ink Master finale.Ink Master is a competition show on Spike that pits tattoo artists against one another in different challenges involving human canvasses (in other words, people who sign an exhausting amount of paperwork in order to get tattooed on television.) The artists are whittled down week by week, until only the final three remain. This season, the artists were split draft-style into two teams: Team Peck and Team Nu?ez -- named for Chris Nu?ez and Oliver Peck, the shows judges and famed tattooers.Basically, Ink Master is the ring where tattooers come to box.For seven seasons of the reality show, no woman had ever won the title of Ink Master. Only one other woman -- Sarah Miller in Season 2 -- even made it to the finale, making Ashleys win in Season 8 all the more sweet. Heres the winning tattoo she inked (which, by the way, she completed in 24 hours):Ashley grew up in a trailer park in Dallas, Pennsylvania, a small town about 20 miles west of Scranton. She was raised by a single mom who juggled a job at McDonalds with night school, where she eventually earned her degree in accounting.We were really poor for a really long time, Ashley said. We never had cable or the internet. My mom is an artist, and when we were bored she would ask us to draw her things. If I couldnt do it, shed show me how.Always a talented artist, Ashley moved to New York City after high school to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She landed at a private-label company, but after nearly five years, she decided she needed to get out of her cube and away from her screen. She found her way into tattooing.Tattoo artists arent made overnight. They do apprenticeships at shops and with other artists. Ashley worked with Nick Malasto at his private studio focusing on custom tattoos, not dissimilar from the ones on Ink Master. She now owns her own private studio nestled within the collectibles shop she co-owns in Kingston, Pennsylvania: The Strange and Unusual Oddities Parlor.Street shops, where people typically walk in to get ink, arent really her style, she says. I had to do a tri-color Rastafarian ankle band on half-off day, Ashley said. It was the worst day of my life, and since that specific tattoo I decided I could never work in a street shop again.Though the finale began with three artists -- Ashley, Doty and Gian Karle -- by the end it was only Ashley and Karle standing. Ashley was awarded the title in a 2-1 split decision by the judges with host Dave Navarro making the final call.One of the more staggering parts of her victory is that Ashley has just entered only her fifth year of tattooing. Her win marks the second consecutive year that a relatively new artist has triumphed over the field, following in the shoes of Season 7 winner, Anthony Michaels.Older tattooers only want to do what they want to do, judge Peck said in a phone interview. Young tattooers are eager. They feel like they have a great opportunity to do something and are willing to jump through any hoops that come their way.Ink Master is hard. The contestants often tattoo for extended periods of time and compete in challenges that require both physical and mental stamina. Tattooing for long amounts of time -- while not classically athletic -- is still physically demanding. The artists hunch over, gripping vibrating machines, while creating permanent art on another person in whatever conditions theyre given.Ashley says she was able to thrive in the competition because of the support given by the other women in the house: Doty, Nikki Simpson and Gia Rose. The four of them formed an alliance that crossed Team Peck and Team Nu?ez and landed two of them in the finale.?We want the best artist to win, Ashley said before the finale. We dont want the easy road, we dont want anything to be handed to us just because were girls. All of us, collectively, had the same hope that it would finally be a girl this season.This season, the best woman did win. She was also just the best. No qualifier needed. China Shoes Black Friday . He just needed to be his best twisting, turning acrobatic self. "I didnt need to be anybody else, I just needed to be myself and be aggressive," said Burks, who scored a career-high 34 points to spark the Utah Jazz to a 118-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night. Cheap Shoes Black Friday . 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(STATS) -- Theres little doubt Campbell University football and the Big South Conference are a perfect fit together.Already a Big South member in 18 other sports, Campbell will move to the scholarship level and begin play in the conference with the 2018 season, the university announced Monday.Campbell returned to football in 2008 after a 58-year hiatus and has played in the non-scholarship Pioneer Football League ever since. The Camels will play one more year in the PFL, which has 10 other members.The Big South will get a much-needed boost from Campbell, moving from six to seven members. 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