Summer Ross
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Summer Noel Ross 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 is a member of the men's volleyball team at Pepperdine University
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Sports Illustrated
featured Ross in its Faces in the Crowd
section on the October 4, 2010 issue.
Ross is currently a freshman at the University of Washington
where she plays on the women's volleyball team.
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.
Summer is the daughter of Tony Ross, an airline pilot, and Kathy Ross. Her older brother Chase is a member of the men's volleyball team at Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for Seaver College, the School of...
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Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated is an American sports media company owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. Its self titled magazine has over 3.5 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men. It was the first magazine with circulation over one million to win the...
featured Ross in its Faces in the Crowd
Faces in the Crowd
Faces in the Crowd is a long-running segment from Sports Illustrated. Starting in the January 9, 1956 issue, the segment was originally titled These Faces in the Crowd. The predecessor to These Faces... was a segment called Pat on the Back. It differed in that it did not just focus on unknown or...
section on the October 4, 2010 issue.
Ross is currently a freshman at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
where she plays on the women's volleyball team.
AVP
Despite her young age and amateur status, Ross qualified for the main draw at four of the five AVPAssociation of Volleyball Professionals
The Association of Volleyball Professionals, or AVP, is a beach volleyball tour which takes place throughout the United States. The summer tour starts in April and continues almost every weekend until the end of October....
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.