The Real Deal: Ava Galligan of LSU Soccer Talks Historic 2025 Season & More
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Junior forward Ava Galligan scored 11 goals this season during LSU Soccer's historic Sweet 16 run. Galligan, the Ashburn, Va. native, joins the latest episode of The Real Deal to look back at the 2025 season, look ahead to the future, and give listeners more information about herself off the pitch. Watch the full show on LSU Plus.
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| 0:00.0 | On July 1st, we didn't ask it a profit off name, image, and lightning. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay. |
| 0:07.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Real Deal podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your host, Jamar Lincoln, Assistant Director of NIL, and we got us a very special guest with us this afternoon. |
| 0:22.4 | She's a junior for the LSU soccer team. |
| 0:24.8 | Prior to LSU, she attended Independence High School where she thrived as a four-star recruit and played club ball for St. James, FC in Virginia. |
| 0:32.6 | As a freshman at LSU, she made an immediate impact, earning all SEC freshman team honors and a spot on a mid-season top drawer soccer top 100 freshman list since then she has continued to elevate her game earning multiple all SEC selections all Southeast region honors SEC academic honor roll and SEC all tournament team from Ashburn, Virginia. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Ava Galligan. Woo! Ava, how are we doing? I'm good. How are you? Good, fresh. You got a haircut and everything. Got you a little deal. We'll talk about that off-camera. But you're really one thing, Ava, that really jumped off in me, obviously, you know, excellent personality. |
| 1:13.8 | I mean, you're a tremendous soccer player, but one thing came to find out was that your love for |
| 1:19.7 | oatmeal cream pies. Now, two-part question, but I asked the first part, is that. Where did that love come from? |
| 1:28.1 | I had a friend in elementary school who used to bring him like for lunch every day. I never had |
| 1:34.7 | him at my house, but he would split him with me and then I was like, these are really good. |
| 1:39.4 | You were locked in ever since? Yeah, pretty much. So is that, so your top three, like, Little Debbie cakes, oatmeal cream pie one? I don't have, like, another. Whoa. Like, I like them, but not as much as oatmeal cream pies. Not like a zebra cake, you don't think? No. Like, I couldn't go top three. I would just go for an oatmeal cream pie. Hmm. Also, shout out Laura and Tiger Life. she made homemade ones. She baked homemade ones for my brand. What? They were so good. Laura's top notch, Tiger Life. We got to get them on. We'll get Tiger Life on for sure. Homemade, was it better than the store brought Debbie once? It's got to be, right? Like, because it's homemade. Yeah. They were really good. |
| 2:19.1 | And you don't have a top three. |
| 2:19.7 | Dang, Eva. |
| 2:20.2 | Okay. |
| 2:24.3 | I'm always honest. |
| 2:27.0 | So oatmeal cream pies are not in my top three. |
| 2:28.1 | They're not in my top 30. |
| 2:29.5 | Top 40. |
| 2:30.0 | Hold on. |
| 2:31.0 | It's not necessary. |
| 2:33.0 | You could just say your top three. |
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