[1] She attended JC's Broadway Dance Academy, which was owned and operated by her mother Jeanette but closed permanently in 2022.
[2] Ava was a guest dancer of the ALDC "Select Team" in season 4 of Dance Moms.
[5] In 2018, she launched a social media campaign, #13Reasons4Me, that encourages people to list 13 things they love about themselves or in their lives.
[6] Cota appeared in 2013 on the television series Dance Moms and was a regular on the show for another 4 years.
Her first major role in acting came as playing the lead character in the Netflix film Tall Girl, which was released on September 13, 2019.