Ashley Walden (née Hayden; born November 5, 1981, in Framingham, Massachusetts) is an American luger who competed from 1998-2011.

She won two silver medals in the mixed team event at the FIL World Luge Championships (2004, 2005).

Hayden also finished eighth in the women's singles event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

[1] In 2006, she married luger Bengt Walden, a naturalized American citizen originally from Sweden.

For NBC Sports at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she worked as a researcher for the luge events.