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2025-26 Women's Basketball Roster

33 Ava Bates

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Sophomore
  • Highschool Ovid-Elsie
  • Hometown St. John's, Mich.

Biography

2024-25 (Freshman)
  • Played in 12 games in her first season with the Wildcats
  • Scored her first career points with a 3-pointer against Ashland on 12/22/24
  • Recorded a season-best 7 points on 3-5 shooting vs. Davenport on 2/1/25
  • Pulled down four rebounds in her first career game on 11/9/24 against Lewis
  • Finished the season averaging 3.3 minutes, 1.3 points, and 0.9 rebounds per game

Before NMU
  • Two-time Detroit Free-Press All-State Honorable Mention
  • Three-time MMAC First Team All-Conference
  • Two-time LSJ Mid-Michigan All-Area First Team
  • Three-time Argus Press All-Area First Team
  • MMAC Conference Girls Bball Player of the Year
  • Holds the Ovid-Elsie school record for most 3-pointers in a season (46)
  • A member of two MMAC Conference Championship teams 
  • Two-time District Champion and one-time Regional Champion
  • Also played soccer at Ovid-Elsie, where she was a 2024 All-State First Team Goalkeeper 
  • All-State Honrable Mention in 2023
  • Four-time All-Conference and All-District First Team
  • Two-time All-Region First Team honoree
  • Four-time MMAC League Champion
  • District Champion in 2024
  • Three-time Argus Press All-Area First Team
  • Two-time LSJ Mid-Michigan All-Area First Team
Personal
  • Daughter of Courtney and Andy Bates
  • From St. John's, Michigan
  • Hobbies include playing piano and fishing

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 33

    2024-25Freshman

    F
    6'0"
    33
  • 33

    2025-26Sophomore

    F
    6'0"
    33