Ashton Taylor Locklear (born January 13, 1998) is a retired American artistic gymnast from North Carolina.

She was a member of the gold medal-winning United States team at the 2014 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and is a two-time national champion on the uneven bars (2014, 2016).

[5] At a young age, Locklear watched her older sister's gymnastics lessons and began imitating her.

[4] When she was eleven years old, she began training at Everest Gymnastics in Huntersville, North Carolina, with coaches Qi Han (a former member of the Chinese men's national team and a graduate of Beijing Sports University)[2] and his wife, Yiwen Chen.

Because of the distance between Huntersville and Locklear's hometown of Hamlet, North Carolina her family maintains a second household near the gym.

[4] Locklear competed at the Nastia Liukin Cup in 2013 where she placed seventh in the all-around and on balance beam, first on uneven bars, and ninth on floor exercise.

[6] Later that year Locklear suffered a stress fracture in her back, which limited her to conditioning for approximately four months and forced her to stop competing on the floor exercise and vault.

A week after the competition, Locklear was named to the senior national team and invited to the 2015 Worlds selection camp.

[14] Locklear initially committed to the University of Florida, but on September 10, 2015, the information was changed on her USA Gymnastics athlete profile to "undecided", prompting speculation that she had uncommitted.

In April, at the 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, Locklear helped the U.S. win the team competition.

[19] Locklear was named to the 2016 U.S. National Team and qualified for the Olympic Trials in San Jose, California.

[21] Ashton began the 2017 season at the City of Jesolo Trophy in Jesolo, Italy, winning the team gold medal with the U.S. team and the bronze medal on the uneven bars, behind Russia's Elena Eremina and fellow U.S. teammate Riley McCusker.

[22] In September Locklear was selected to represent the United States at the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal alongside Ragan Smith, Morgan Hurd, and Jade Carey.

[27] After undergoing shoulder surgery in the fall, Locklear relocated to Spring, Texas to train alongside Simone Biles at World Champions Centre.