{"id":761512,"date":"2026-07-14T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761512\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T02:14:09","slug":"varsity-4-high-school-football-countdown-no-25-ponte-vedra-kicker-noah-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/761512\/","title":{"rendered":"Varsity 4 high school football countdown No. 25: Ponte Vedra kicker Noah Ash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ponte Vedra kicker Noah Ash ranks as the No. 25 player in the Varsity 4 News-4JAX countdown to 2026. (News4JAX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The countdown to the high school football season is on. Each weekday from July 13 to Aug. 15 Week 0 opening night, News4JAX will count down its list of top 25 players. The list is heavily weighted towards recruiting and projecting the top players in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Varsity 4 top 25 player countdown25. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Noahash1117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Noah Ash<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Position\/school: Kicker, Ponte Vedra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Class: Senior. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Height\/weight: 5-11, 190.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Recruiting: Committed to Auburn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Why he\u2019s here: A placekicker among the area\u2019s top players? You got that right. Ash is the area\u2019s best player at his position, and one of the top recruits in the nation. He booted 11 field goals for the state semifinalist Sharks last year and had 74 touchbacks in 85 chances. Depending on the recruiting outlet, Ash ranks between fourth (247 Sports Composite) to sixth (Rivals\/On3). <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorJustin Barney headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/YZYINYEDP5DTPJQ7HZSUC3AOWM\/\" title=\"View Justin Barney&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Barney<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Justin Barney joined News4Jax in February 2019, but he\u2019s been covering sports on the First Coast for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ponte Vedra kicker Noah Ash ranks as the No. 25 player in the Varsity 4 News-4JAX countdown to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,26584,3,171849,452,453,171848],"class_list":["post-761512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-high-school","tag-news","tag-sports4jax","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-varsity-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}