[5] The following month, Ross partnered with Tara Roenicke to win the U21 World Championships, defeating Italy's Marta Menegatti and Viktoria Orsi Toth in three sets in the gold-medal match.

[4][5] By the end of 2010, Ross had been featured in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd[8] and was named USAV's Beach Female Athlete of the Year.

[6] Ross was also an active club indoor volleyball player and played for Carlsbad High School in her freshman and sophomore years.

[4] Regarded as one of the top high school recruits for indoor volleyball, Ross played as a right-side hitter for the Washington Huskies during her freshman year in 2011.

[6] The following year, at the respective ages of 16 and 17, Ross and partner Natalie Hagglund became the youngest team at the time to ever qualify for an AVP main draw at the 2009 Manhattan Beach Open,[13] eventually finishing in 49th place.

[citation needed] In July 2012, Ross competed with former Olympian, Nicole Branagh, at the Berlin Grand Slam, making her first main draw in an elite international tournament.

[7] The following week, Ross was granted a wild card into the Klagenfurt Grand Slam with her U21 partner, Tara Roenicke,[7] as part of the prize for winning the FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships in 2010.

[15] They reached their first World Tour podium at the $146.4K Phuket Open in November, where they were the runners-up after being beaten in the gold-medal match by China's Xia Xinyi and Xue Chen.

[18][14] Competing in seven AVP tournaments, their best result was a second-place finish at the $75K Atlantic City Open in September, in which they lost to April Ross and Walsh Jennings in straight sets in the finals.

[26] Ross played with Lane Carico for the second half of the year, posting two more fifth-place finishes at the $75K Rio de Janeiro and Sochi Opens.

[25] In the 2016 AVP season, Ross and partner Lane Carico won the $75K Seattle Open as the number two seeds, beating Fopma and Hochevar in two sets in the final match.

[30] In the 2017 AVP season, Ross won the $75K Seattle Open again with new partner Brooke Sweat, beating Betsi Flint and Kelley Larsen in straight sets.

[25] On the World Tour, they came in second at the $75K Moscow Open in June, losing to the top-seeded Talita Antunes and Larissa França of Brazil in the gold-medal match.

[36] The pair medalled in their first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour tournament the following month, winning bronze at the Espinho Open.