Ava Lawson Stats
2020 CoSIDA Academic All-District Team
2020 Horizon League All-Academic Team
2020 Senior CLASS Candidate
2019 All-Horizon League First Team
2019 Horizon League All-Tournament Team
2019 Horizon League All-Academic Team
2018 All-Horizon League First Team
Horizon League Player of the Week (4/9/18)
2021: Named All-League Second Team, batting .300 and registering a .395 on base percentage … Played and started all 38 games at center field … Recorded a .977 fielding average, adding 82 putouts … Posted seven home runs, finishing fifth all-time at NKU with 23 career homers and added eight doubles, as well as three triples … Led the Norse with 28 RBIs and 21 runs scored … Had multi-hit games against Central Michigan, Saint Louis, Oakland, Cleveland State, UIC, IUPUI, and Youngstown State … Also led NKU in multiple RBI games with 10 total … Moved to seventh all-time in career doubles (37), sixth in triples (9) and fourth in highest slugging percentage (.523).
2020: Named a candidate for the 2020 Senior CLASS Award ... Landed on the Horizon League All-Academic Team and the CoSIDA Academic All-District Team ... Played and started in all 19 games at center field before the season was cut short due to COVID-19 … Batted .317 with 19 hits, 13 RBI, and 10 runs scored … Had nine extra-base hits with six home runs, two doubles and a triple … Moved to seventh all-time in career home runs (16), eighth in career RBI (90) and ninth in career doubles (34) … Had multi-hit outings against Western Michigan, Murray State and Stetson, and four multi-RBI games.
2019: Named to the All-Horizon League First Team, Horizon League All-Tournament Team and Horizon League All-Academic Team… Played in all 55 games, making 54 starts … Led the team with a .329 batting average, a .512 slugging percentage, 54 hits and 27 runs scored … Drove in 28 runs and had 20 extra-base hits on the year … Her 14 doubles tie for sixth on NKU’s all-time single-season list … Also ended the season tied for 10th with 32 career doubles … In league play, batted .382 with 29 hits, ranking seventh in both categories … Ranked third in the league with nine doubles during the league slate … Also top-10 in runs scored (18) and on-base percentage (.453) … Had 19 multi-hit games on the year and eight multi-RBI games, including four runs driven in against Youngstown State on April 23 … Strung together the longest hitting streak on the team, with at least one hit in nine games between April 12 and April 23.
2018: Named to the All-Horizon League First Team and was the Player of the Week on April 9 after tying NKU's Division I single-game record with six RBI against Wright State, courtesy of back-to-back homers and a double ... Batted .300 with 36 hits, 25 RBI and 19 runs scored ... Led the Norse in the Horizon League season with a .393 batting average, .672 slugging percentage, 24 hits, 19 RBI and four home runs, all of which ranked among the top-five Horizon League players ... Had eight multi-hit games and four multi-RBI games.
2017: Started all 52 games at center field … Batted .312 with 43 hits, with 11 doubles, all good for second on the team … Had the third-highest slugging percentage of the Norse at .464, and drove in 24 runs … Laced 11 doubles to rank fifth in the Horizon League and second on the NKU squad, along with a pair of triples and home runs … Boasted the highest fielding percentage of the outfielders at .977 … Was one-of-three Norse to have 11 multi-hit games on the season and one-of-two to have at least five RBI in a single game.
BEFORE NKU: A graduate of McAuley High School in Cincinnati, Ohio…in her senior year, earned First-Team All-League, First-Team All-Metro, Second-Team All-State, and received her team’s Offense Award for leading the league with a .683 batting average…in her junior season, was a member of the Girls Greater Catholic League All Conference (GGCL) First Team….during her junior year, Lawson helped lead her team to a GGCL Championship, while hitting .439 and driving in 16 runs in 66 at-bats…also during that season, she had an on-base percentage of .538 to lead the GGCL and ranked second in steals with 13.
