Summer Ross
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| Full name | Summer Noel Ross | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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December 20, 1992 San Diego, California, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Carlsbad, California, USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Summer Noel Ross (born December 20, 1992) is an American volleyball player and FIVB 2010 Youth Under-19 and Junior Under-21 world champion, the only player to win both titles in the same year. She was named 2010 USA Volleyball Beach Female Athlete of the Year.
Summer is the daughter of Tony Ross, an airline pilot, and Kathy Ross. Her older brother Chase was a member of the men's volleyball team at Pepperdine University.[1]
Sports Illustrated featured Ross in its Faces in the Crowd section on the October 4, 2010 issue.[2]
Ross played on the University of Washington volleyball team during her freshman year in college.[3] On December 28, 2011, shortly after the end of her freshman season at Washington, Ross announced she was transferring from Washington in order to pursue beach volleyball.[4]
Spring semester, 2012, Ross joined the Pepperdine sand volleyball team. She led the team to the first AVCA National Sand Volleyball Championship in Gulf Shores, Alabama in 2012. She also won the 2012 AVCA National Sand Championship Pairs Competition with partner, Caitlin Racich. Earlier that same month, Pepperdine won the 2012 USAV Collegiate Challenge at Hermosa Beach, and Summer and Caitlyn placed 1st in that pairs competition as well.
In July 2012, in Berlin, Germany, 19 year old Summer Ross competed with former Olympian, Nicole Branagh, in her first FIVB Beach Tournament. Meeting up in Berlin and having never practiced together, Summer and Nicole beat Poland and Berlin in pool play to place 17th in the event. The next week, Summer was granted a wild card into the Klagenfurt, Austria event with U21 partner, Tara Roenicke, as a reward for winning the U21 event in 2010.
In September 2012, Summer won the FISU World University Championship in Maceio, Brazil, with partner Emily Day. This was her 4th Gold Medal at the International level.
AVP
Despite her young age and amateur status, Ross qualified for the main draw at four of the five AVP tournaments she entered during the 2010 season, placing as high as 13th before the league folded.
Ross and teammate Natalie Hagglund, ages 16 and 17 at the time respectively, became the youngest team to ever qualify for an AVP main draw at the Manhattan Beach Open on July 17, 2009.[5]
Awards
- 2010 - USA Volleyball Beach Female Athlete of the Year
References
- ↑ http://www.pepperdinesports.com/sports/m-volley/mtt/ross_chase00.html
- ↑ "Faces in the Crowd". Sports Illustrated. October 4, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.gohuskies.com/sports/w-volley/mtt/ross_summer00.html
- ↑ "Summer Ross transfers from Washington volleyball team". The Seattle Times. December 28, 2011.
- ↑ Monahan, Terry (August 5, 2009). "PREP VOLLEYBALL: Dream duo: Despite low expectations, teenagers Ross, Hagglund emerge as darlings of pro beach volleyball tournament". North County Times.