Ava Fountain
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- Height:
- 5-3
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- Hometown:
- Lake Placid, FL
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- Year:
- Sophomore
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- High School:
- The King's Academy
Bio
2023: Had a record breaking freshman season, paired with Abbey Hildenbrand at the no. 2 seed. The duo went 23-4 on the seaon, starting off with a 22 game winning streak. Recorded the largest win margin in school history against Bob Jones by defeating their opponent 21-1. Fountain and Hildenbrand as a pair earned an American Volleyball Association Top Flight award.
High School: Fountain finished her high school career with 246 sets played, 420 digs, 538 service receptions, 11 kills, and 29 aces. Her high school, The King's Academy, launched their beach program in 2022 and went undefeated earning the number two seed in post season play. Fountain earned national honor society, science national honor society, and social studies national honor society awards as well as serving in the Key Club and the Quill and Scroll honor society.
Personal: Daughter of Kara and Jeremy Fountain. Fountain's cousin, Drew Beno, plays baseball at Richmond University where he has six hits in just six starts. Fountain is a nursing major at Carson-Newman
News mentions
Carson-Newman beach volleyball concluded their 2024 season in Tavare, Fla on Sunday morning after a 3-0 loss to Palm Beach Atlantic and a 3-1 loss to Tusculum.
Carson-Newman concluded their second day at the AVCA Small Beach Championship 1-1, with a 2-2 overall tournament record before they take on bracket play on Sunday morning.
The Eagles went 1-1 on opening day at the AVCA Small Beach Championships in Tavares, Fla.
The Carson-Newman beach squad fell twice to the Tusculum Pioneers this Tuesday. The first match finished 3-2, and the second 4-1, in favor of the Pioneers.
Carson-Newman finished their weekend in Chattanooga 1-3 after dropping matches against Austin Peay and UTC on day two of the competition.
After their opening day at the UTC invitational, the Eagles finished with one win and one loss.
Despite heavy winds across Mossy Creek, the Carson-Newman Beach team sent their seniors out in style, completing back-to-back 5-0 victories over the Liberty Flames.
After poor weather postponed Friday's match with Mercer to Saturday, the Eagles faced a stacked day with three matches on the agenda. To begin the morning, C-N completed the postponed match against Mercer, then followed with a match against LaGrange and closed with another against Mercer.
At day one of Mercer's Invitational, the Eagles completed a sweeping victory over LaGrange College but were unable to play their match against Mercer scheduled at 3 pm due to weather complications.
After a Friday and Saturday spent in Florence, Alabama, Carson-Newman beach closed the weekend out with a 0-4 record.
Carson-Newman beach volleyball finished 0-2 after day one of the UNA Invitational. They went 1-4 against North Alabama, the hosts of the weekend, and also 1-4 against Austin Peay.
The Carson-Newman sand Eagles go 4-0 after a weekend spent on the banks of Mossy Creek, and record their 10th and 11th straight wins of the season
On a rainy Mossy Creek Friday, Carson-Newman beach secured their eighth and ninth straight wins of the season after home matches against Catawba and Erskine.
Carson-Newman beach showed dominance over their Georgia competition this weekend, finishing with a perfect 4-0 record after Saturday's matches.
Carson-Newman beach began their weekend hot, securing wins against Erskine and LaGrange in day one of the Berry Beach Bash tournament.
The Eagles add two more sweeps to the record this season after their second day in Laurinburg, NC.
The Eagles dropped their season opening match to the Liberty Flames 3-2 on Friday afternoon before completing a perfect 5-0 sweep over Spartanburg Methodist in their second match of the day.