The Omro guard will have her last AAU run with Playmakers/Thrive . The wing is an aesthetically pleasing scorer who can put the ball in the basket at all three levels. Koch has had injuries that have kept her from thrusting herself onto the scene in her first two seasons in high school, but the 2026 kid with the most breakout potential this summer. Coaches who find time to see her will want to keep watching her play.

Few kids can do what Koch can do consistently. She’s an oddball of a prospect with the way basketball is moving, but she makes it work. Koch is an elite mid-range scorer possessing multiple ways to find looks that work for her. She’s a physical kid and uses her footwork to create enough space to get her shots off. Koch makes things that are difficult look rudimentary. There’s a role for her at the next level.

After battling severe injuries the past few seasons, Koch has been outstanding to start her junior season. Koch scored the ball at a high level around the basket and shot the ball well from the mid-range area. Koch looks comfortable getting to her pull-up game, and she’s shot the ball well. You won’t find many kids at the high school level making pull-up jumpers efficiently enough to help their team win games, but Koch has been the outlier and been a fun player to watch.

Whenever players return from long-term injuries, you don’t know what they’ll be when they return. We have no clue what’ll happen when players return from a second long-term injury. Koch exceeded any expectation anyone could have had for her at Omro last season, and she seemed confident for someone who could barely play competitively for almost two years. She shot the ball well, got to her floater game, got downhill, and attacked the boards on both ends.

After a few years of injuries that held Koch to limited run, the thing that stood out the most when I watched her games at Omro was her motor. Koch grabbed over six rebounds per game in her 11 contests this season, and most of them felt like they came after she’d crash the glass from the perimeter. I also like the throwback style Koch has to what she does on the offensive end of the floor. Her shot looks solid from top to bottom. It’s pure form spot-up shooting, and she can get there off a dribble. There’s still plenty of skill that she has, and because I haven’t seen her play in person before, Koch is a must-watch with her Playmakers/Thrive group.

There are kids with bad injury luck, and there’s Ava Koch Ava Koch 5'7" | SG Omro | 2026 State WI ‘s injury luck. After two ACL tears, she finally got a stretch of high school games under her belt and played well for Omro. In her second game back, Koch knocked down a go-ahead floater to give the Foxes a narrow one-point win over Winneconne. If that doesn’t show confidence, I’m not sure what would. She’s got some skill around the rim and has shown flashes of her perimeter game coming around. The talent has always been there, even when the health hasn’t. She’s the kind of player you root for.