2025 Beach Volleyball Roster
Biography
ATHLETIC HONORS:
2025 All-Sun Belt Conference First Team
2025 Sun Belt Conference Pair of the Tournament
Center Parc Student-Athlete of the Week (April 13, 2025)
Sun Belt Conference Pair of the Week (April 15, 2025)
2023 All-Sun Belt Conference Second Team
2023 Sun Belt Conference Championship All-Tournament Team
2023 2x Sun Belt Conference Pair of the Week (April 12/April 19)
ACADEMIC HONORS:
President's List- Spring 2025
President's List- Spring 2024
President's List - Fall 2024
President's List- Fall 2023
President's List- Spring 2023
President's List- Fall 2022
President's List- Spring 2022
Dean's List- Fall 2021
AT GEORGIA STATE: 74 career wins at Georgia State… Has defeated 17 ranked opponents throughout career at Georgia State… Three-time Sun Belt Conference Pair of the Week...Helped the Panthers to four consecutive conference championship victories (three Sun Belt, one Conference USA) … Was part of four NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship appearances, including a win over #7 Grand Canyon and #2 TCU in the 2022 NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship… Named to the 2023 All-Sun Belt Conference Secont Team and All-Tournament Team...Named to the 2025 All-Sun Belt Conference First Team and Sun Belt Conference Pair of the Tournament
2025: Registered a 27-11 record, earning the most wins on the team…Partnered with Aliisa Vuorinen and Aree Keller in the first and second flights…Registered a 24-10 record with Keller…Tied for most wins by a pair on the team alongside Keller…Compiled a 12-0 Sun Belt record during the season…Registered five wins over ranked opposition in No. 17 FIU, Stetson twice (No. 15 & No. 14), No. 13 Grand Canyon, and No. 20 FGCU…Named Sun Belt Pair of the Week after going undefeated at GSU Diggin Duals Invitational…Earned First Team All-Sun Belt Honors…Recorded a perfect performance at the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in the top position…Named Sun Belt Conference Pair of the Tournament… Helped the Sandy Panthers to a third consecutive Sun Belt Conference Title…Helped GSU to a fourth consecutive NCAA Championship berth in a season that saw the team ranked top-20 or better nationally each week
2024: Johnson finished the 2024 spring season with a 17-20 record with appearances at the third fourth, and fifth flights... Ayla downed three ranked opponents throughout the season… Ayla was paired with Elise Saga for the majority of the season, the pair won 10 matches together… Finished the season with an impressive 10-1 record in Sun Belt Conference play… Helped the Sandy Panthers to a second consecutive Sun Belt Conference Championship Title... Helped GSU to a third consecutive NCAA Championship berth in a season that saw the team ranked top-16 or better nationally for every week…
2023: Johnson charted a 23-13 overall final record pairing with teammate Maddy Delmonte for every dual... Finished with a 19-10 mark at the fourth flight and a 4-3 mark at the fifth flight... Earned All-Sun Belt Second Team honors for the 2023 spring after notching nine victories facing nationally-ranked foes... Reeled off a team-high 12 consecutive wins to close the season... Earned back-to-back Sun Belt Conference Pair of the Week nods alongside Delmonte after posting consecutive 4-0 performances in dual match tournament competition that included six victories over nationally ranked opponents... Was named to the Sun Belt Conference Championship All-Tournament Team after securing four straight-set wins over conference foes... Helped lead the Sandy Panthers to a Sun Belt Conference Championship Title in the league's inaugural season of beach volleyball... Helped lead GSU to a second consecutive NCAA Championship berth in a season that saw the team ranked top-14 or better nationally for every week
2022: Entered her first season with the Sandy Panthers as a true freshman and charted a 7-3 record for the spring... Opened collegiate play at the team's season opening tournament in New Orleans on Feb. 25-26; Notched her first collegiate victory against Spring Hill College on Feb. 26 pairing with Bailey Hatchett at the No. 5 flight... Saw time at the fifth flight in 10 matches for GSU and competed at the exhibition flight for the majority of dual match appearances throughout the 2022 season... Contributed to the Sandy Panthers' historic 2022 season and NCAA Tournament run highlighted by the first-ever C-USA Beach Volleyball Championship and an upset over second-seeded TCU to advance to the NCAA round of six... The win over TCU notched a school-record 28th victory for the Sandy Panthers and marked the largest upset in NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship history, the first time GSU has secured a second victory in NCAA Tournament play throughout the history of GSU athletics across all sports and tied the school record for highest-ranking victory in GSU athletics history... The team's No. 7 ranking for the final AVCA Coaches Poll marked the highest finish in a Division I Collegiate Poll for any team in GSU sports history
HIGH SCHOOL: Played volleyball at John T. Hoggard High School under head coach Ron Strickland ... Lettered two years in volleyball and one year in basketball ... Played outside hitter ... Tabbed to the Mid-Eastern Conference all-conference team and the Coastal Preps all-area team ... Led her team to a Mid-Eastern Conference championship.
PERSONAL: Ayla Johnson was born on April 22, 2003 in Wilmington, N.C. ... Daughter of Jimmy and Kelly Johnson ... Has a twin brother (Gabriel) ... Mother (Kelly) played softball at UNCW.
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