The Real Deal: California Native Lauren Brooker of LSU Volleyball Talks Transition to Louisiana, NIL Internship, 2026 Season & More
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4.9 • 537 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Get to know LSU junior setter Lauren Brooker ahead of the Purple and White scrimmage inside the PMAC. Brooker, the Calabasas, Calif. native, played in 102 sets and started in 17 of the 27 matches she appeared in during the 2025 season, leading the offense with 6.27 assists per set (640 total) and contributed 29 kills, 31 blocks, 11 aces and 142 digs.
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| 0:00.0 | On July 1st, it will ask you can profit off name, image, and lightning. |
| 0:06.0 | Okay. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Real Deal podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm your host, Jamar Lincoln, Assistant Director of NILIL. We got us a very special guest with us today. |
| 0:21.9 | She's a junior center for the LSU volleyball team. |
| 0:24.4 | Prior to LSU, she started at Marymount High School before beginning her collegiate career at UC San Diego, |
| 0:29.8 | where she earned Big West All Freshman Team honors, and she was a three-time Big West freshman in the week's selection. |
| 0:36.1 | Now at LSU, she has played a pivotal role in key wins this season and continues to |
| 0:40.1 | elevate the standard of Tiger Volleyball from Calabasas, California. |
| 0:43.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Lauren, Brookeer. |
| 0:46.7 | Lauren, how we doing? |
| 0:47.9 | How are you? |
| 0:49.1 | I'm good. |
| 0:49.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:50.1 | We got some photos taken, got some things done. |
| 0:52.4 | So let's start off first. |
| 0:55.6 | Student athlete, student first, athlete second. |
| 0:59.9 | But on the back end, you're also an intern for us here with NILSU. |
| 1:04.7 | So talk to me a little bit about how your experience has been with that. |
| 1:07.6 | And from your perspective, how is being on the back end of learning |
| 1:13.0 | nil kind of helps you build your brand and all these things it's been super fun i mean just like today |
| 1:18.5 | we were taking photos and the other day we were like i've been in you know watching podcasts and like |
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