A Memphis native and a 2014 Mississippi State graduate now in her fourth year of veterinary school, Ashley Reeves, pictured above with head football coach Joe Moorhead and athletic director John Cohen, was scheduled for open heart surgery this afternoon, the third such procedure she’s had to undergo in her life. With her alma mater’s annual Road Dawgs tour in town the day of her operation, her friends had planned to get a football signed by Moorhead after he spoke so that they could take it to her and surprise her with it as soon she came out of surgery.