Ava Rose Townsend, or as her dad calls her, “Scooby,” moved from Hurley, South Dakota, to Madison at the age of three. She is the daughter of Amy and Ryan Townsend and the younger sister of Mady Townsend. At home, she has one dog named Sophie and a cat named Jingles. Sophie is a Miniature Schnauzer that Ava received after her grandma Phylis sadly passed away in 2020.
Ava’s favorite movie is Shrek; she believes that “It is the best movie in the whole entire world!” Her favorite color is blue and her all-time favorite food is mac-and-cheese. One of Ava’s motivations in life is to be rich. After all, being poor is what she is most afraid of. Making money pushes Ava to work as hard as she possibly can. When asked what superpower she would most like to have, she responded with reading minds, “to see what everyone's thinking.”
Ava is currently working at Gaylen’s Gourmet Popcorn and says the most rewarding part is the community of people she works with. When she is not at work, you’ll see her driving around town with her friends or boxing in Tea. When Ava graduates, she intends to start a job doing tile setting. If Ava could live anywhere in the world for a year, she would live in Hawaii because “it’s tropical.” In ten years, she would like to be as rich as possible, and with one child. Her advice for underclassmen is, “the Golden Rule; treat others the way you want to be treated!”