2024 Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 12
Ava Samuelson
- Year:
- Senior
- Position:
- D
- Hometown:
- Louisville, Colo.
- Previous School:
- Monarch HS
2024 (senior season):
2023 (junior season):
2022 (sophomore season):
2021 (freshman season):
Career Highs
Goals: 1, three times
Assists: 2 (Idaho, 10.1.23)
Points: 3, two times
Shots: 5, five times
Shots on goal: 3, four times
Minutes: 110 (Idaho, 11.4.22)
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Prep: A 2021 graduate of Monarch High ... BoCoPreps.com honorable mention all-region as a freshman in only season competing for the Coyotes ... A three-year member of state ODP team, two years made regional ODP team ... A five-year member of Real Colorado ... Played one season of ECNL, three DA, then another ECNL ... Made nationals all five years.
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Personal: The daughter of Andy and Lisa Samuelson ... Has an older sister, Aubrey, and an older brother, John ... An integrative physiology major.
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
- Academic All-Big Sky Conference
- First-team All-Big Sky Conference
- Big Sky Conference All-Tournament Team
- Played in all 19 matches, made 19 starts
- Averaged more than 75 minutes per match
- Tied for seventh on team with four points
- Finished season with one goal, two assists
- Ended career with 14 assists, tied for seventh in program history
- Scored equalizer in 3-3 draw at Wyoming as Montana came back from a 3-1 deficit
- Assisted on Jen Estes’s goal that started the rally against the Cowgirls
- Also assisted on Carly Whalen’s game-winner in 4-0 home win over North Dakota
- Took team-high 48 shots, put 23 on goal
- Five times took five shots, four times put three shots on goal
- Part of defensive unit that allowed 10 goals, posted a program-record 14 shutouts
- Twice played all 90 minutes
- Played 105 minutes in Big Sky semifinal match against Sacramento State
2023 (junior season):
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
- Academic All-Big Sky Conference
- Third-team United Soccer Coaches All-West Region
- First-team All-Big Sky Conference
- Played in all 19 matches, made 15 starts
- Ranked sixth on team in points (8) at outside back
- Scored one goal, totaled six assists
- Tied for second in the Big Sky in assists
- Scored lone goal in 4-0 win over Utah Tech in Spokane
- Four of six assists came from header goals by Delaney Lou Schorr
- Assisted on Kathleen Aitchison’s game-winner in 1-0 victory over Oklahoma in Spokane
- Took 25 shots, put eight on goal
- Member of defensive unit that allowed a Big Sky-record nine goals
- Helped Montana post 11 shutouts
- Played 90 minutes in Montana’s victory over Oklahoma
2022 (sophomore season):
- Academic All-Big Sky Conference
- Second-team All-Big Sky Conference
- Started all 20 matches, averaged 80 minutes per match
- Tied for third on team with six points
- Had one goal, ranked second with four assists
- Tied for fourth in the Big Sky in assists
- Tied for third on team with 23 shots
- Scored first collegiate goal in 2-1 road win at Idaho State
- Four assists went to four different goal-scorers
- Took season-high four shots in home draw with Wyoming
- Put a shot on goal in seven of 20 matches
- Played every minute in six matches, four of season’s last five
2021 (freshman season):
- Academic All-Big Sky Conference
- Played in all 20 matches, made one start … Averaged 43 minutes
- One of team’s 18 point-scorers … Totaled two points on two assists
- Collected first collegiate point assisting Skyleigh Thompson’s first collegiate goal in 6-0 home win over Texas Southern
- Assisted on Bella O’Brien’s game-winner in 1-0 road victory at Southern Utah
- Tied for fifth on team with 20 shots … Put five on goal
- Took at least one shot in first four collegiate matches, in 11 of 20 matches overall
- Played 64 minutes at Cal Poly, 62 in home draw with Portland State
- Part of a defense that allowed 15 goals in 20 matches and had 11 shutouts
Career Highs
Goals: 1, three times
Assists: 2 (Idaho, 10.1.23)
Points: 3, two times
Shots: 5, five times
Shots on goal: 3, four times
Minutes: 110 (Idaho, 11.4.22)
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Prep: A 2021 graduate of Monarch High ... BoCoPreps.com honorable mention all-region as a freshman in only season competing for the Coyotes ... A three-year member of state ODP team, two years made regional ODP team ... A five-year member of Real Colorado ... Played one season of ECNL, three DA, then another ECNL ... Made nationals all five years.
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Personal: The daughter of Andy and Lisa Samuelson ... Has an older sister, Aubrey, and an older brother, John ... An integrative physiology major.
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