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Pepperdine University Athletics

2025 Women's Beach Volleyball Roster

James Hanson
Kennedy Duke
Kelly Nugent

17 Ella Foti

  • Height 6-0
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Madison, Wis.
  • High School Edgewood HS
  • Prev School Marquette

Biography

AWARDS:
AVCA Top Flight award - 2025
 
PEPPERDINE 2025: Played in all 34 matches and collected a record of 24-9 … Picked up 19 wins alongside Emma Eden in position No. 3 … Foti and Eden earned three ranked wins, defeating then-ranked #1 UCLA (3/1), #1 TCU (4/4) and #10 Long Beach State (2/22) … Went undefeated at the WCC Tournament … Earned an AVCA Top Flight award. 

MARQUETTE: Played at Marquette for three years… Big East athletic awards include All-Freshman Team (2022) and Freshman of the Week (Nov. 21, 2022)…  Made the Big East All-Academic Team in 2021 and 2022… Collected two Big East Weekly Honor Roll honors while at Marquette. 

HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Edgefield High School in 2021… Earned All-State honorable mention as a freshman … Also tabbed All-State first team, All-Area and All-Conference honors as a junior and senior... Recorded 217 kills, 231 digs, 266 assists, and 23 aces her junior year... Earned a first-place finish with Wisconsin Volleyball Academy at the 2020 National Qualifier... Also lettered in basketball.

PERSONAL: Born in Madison, Wis. … Pursuing a Master of Dispute Resolution as a graduate student… Daughter of Brenda and Tom Foti… Has two sisters, Sam and Bri… Mother and father played volleyball and basketball, respectively, at North Dakota State ... Sister, Sam, played volleyball at Xavier.