Walton’s Ava Besson named an Under Armour Girls Lacrosse All-American

Boston College bound star will compete against the nation’s best on June 30th
Walton’s Ava Besson named an Under Armour Girls Lacrosse All-American
Walton’s Ava Besson named an Under Armour Girls Lacrosse All-American /

Marietta, Ga. native Ava Besson has been named a 2022 Under Armour Girls Lacrosse All-American and will play in the Under Armour All-American game on July 30th in Baltimore at Johns Hopkins University’s legendary Homewood Field.

Besson, who played for George Walton Comprehensive High School, was a four-year starter for the Raiders and has committed to play at Boston College, which won the 2021 NCAA Women’s Division I National Championship and played in the 2022 title game last weekend, falling one goal short of a second straight crown in a 12-11 loss to North Carolina.

A left-handed attacker, who also played for the Eagle Stix Club, Besson played in the 2019 Brogden Cup as a member of the US U15 National Team and has played in two previous Under Armour Underclassmen tournaments.

Inside Lacrosse has rated Besson as the fourth overall player in the Class of 2022 and the second best attacker.

The Under Armour Girls All-American game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on July 30th and will be broadcasted live to a national audience on ESPNU.


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Gary Adornato
GARY ADORNATO

Gary Adornato began covering high school sports with the Baltimore Sun in 1982, while still a mass communications major at Towson University, and in 2003 became one of the first journalists to cover high school sports online while operating MIAASports.com, the official website of the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association. Later, Adornato pioneered market-wide coverage of high school sports with DigitalSports.com, introducing video highlights and player interviews while assembling an award-winning editorial staff. In 2010, he launched VarsitySportsNetwork.com which became the premier source of high school media coverage in the state of Maryland. In 2022, he sold VSN to The Baltimore Banner and joined SBLive Sports as the company's East Coast Managing Editor.