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Summer Ross
Personal information
Full nameSummer Noel Ross
Nationality United States
Born (1992-12-20) December 20, 1992 (age 31)
San Diego, California, U.S.
HometownCarlsbad, California, U.S.
Height6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Beach volleyball information
Current teammate
Years Teammate
2012-present Lane Carico
Honours
Women's beach volleyball
Representing the  United States
Australia Youth Olympics Under-19
Gold medal – first place 2009 Beach
FIVB Youth Under-19 World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Beach
FIVB Junior Under-21 World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Beach
FISU World University Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Beach

Summer Noel Ross (born December 20, 1992) is an American volleyball player. She was FIVB 2010 Youth Under-19 and Junior Under-21 world champion, the only player to win both titles in the same year and was named 2010 USA Volleyball Beach Female Athlete of the Year. As of 2016, her partner is Lane Carico.

Career

Ross and teammate Natalie Hagglund, ages 16 and 17 at the time respectively, became the youngest team to ever qualify for an Association of Volleyball Professionals main draw at the Manhattan Beach Open on July 17, 2009.[1]

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 suspended operations for the season. 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 Caitlin placed first in that pairs competition as well.

In July 2012, in Berlin, Germany, 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, Ross 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.

Awards

  • 2010 – USA Volleyball Beach Female Athlete of the Year[5]

Partners

Ross has posted results in professional beach tournaments with several partners, including: Lane Carico, Emily Day, Nicole Branagh, Caitlyn Murphy, Jane Croson, Angela Bryan, Petia Yanchulova, Jazmin Machado, Tara Roenicke, Heather McGuire, Sara Hughes, Brittany Hochevar, Kelly Schumacher, Jennifer Fopma, Morgan Miller, Tealle Hunkus, Kimberly Hill, Kim DiCello, and Geena Urango.

Personal life

Summer is the daughter of Tony Ross, an airline pilot, and Kathy Ross, who died of cancer in 2014. Her older brother Chase was a member of the men's volleyball team at Pepperdine University.[6]

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Faces in the Crowd". Sports Illustrated. October 4, 2010.
  3. ^ http://www.gohuskies.com/sports/w-volley/mtt/ross_summer00.html
  4. ^ "Summer Ross transfers from Washington volleyball team". The Seattle Times. December 28, 2011.
  5. ^ Hoeptner Evans, B.J. (December 9, 2010). "Summer Ross Named Beach Female Athlete of the Year". Team USA. Retrieved August 18, 2015.
  6. ^ http://www.pepperdinesports.com/sports/m-volley/mtt/ross_chase00.html