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. Ross qualified for the main draw at four of the five Avon Products 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.
Ross played on the University of Washington volleyball team during her freshman year in college.
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. 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. 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.
