The Real Deal: Nia Washington of LSU Volleyball Talks Returning Home & Playing for the Tigers
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Get to know New Orleans native and transfer outside hitter for LSU Volleyball Nia Washington, who joined the latest episode of The Real Deal to talk about returning home to Louisiana to play for the Tigers.
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| 0:00.0 | on July 1st, it'll ask you can profit off name, image, and lightning. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode of the Real Deal podcast. I'm your host, |
| 0:18.6 | Jamar Lincoln, Assistant Director of NIL here, and a special guest |
| 0:22.4 | we have today. She is a three-time Louisiana State volleyball champion at Metairie Park Country Day. |
| 0:28.9 | She is an AVCA, All-American Honorable Mention, and AVCA All-Region, and All-SECC-First team selection. |
| 0:37.2 | In 2024, she was ranked in the top 75 nationally and total kills, kills per set, and total |
| 0:44.1 | points. |
| 0:44.9 | She has a career high of 32 kills and five aces. |
| 0:48.5 | Home State Kid out of New Orleans. |
| 0:50.9 | Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Nia Washington. |
| 0:53.5 | Yes, indeed. What an introduction, Jamar. Thank you. I'm grateful to be here. Yeah, definitely. I mean, this, I'm looking at this resume, Nia. I'm like, man. Well, one of those things I didn't know myself, the 75th ranked. Cool. I mean, when you get to the level that you're at and you're so good I guess |
| 1:12.3 | Looking atop it always but accolades just fall definitely with topping it always |
| 1:16.6 | Especially here so Nia really just starting off if you could swap lives with anybody it could be past the present, just for one day, who would it be? |
| 1:31.0 | Hmm. I'm going to keep it very simple. I would say my mom. I would swap lives with my mom just to see how I am with her. know what I mean like her perspective of me and |
| 1:49.1 | like how I act I would say um but if I have to say a famous person I would go, I don't know. |
| 2:06.6 | I really, I mean, any of them, just to see how busy their schedule is. |
| 2:12.5 | Just anybody. |
| 2:13.6 | Yeah, I mean, yeah. |
| 2:15.2 | Okay. |
| 2:15.8 | Yeah, I don't have anyone in particular. |
| 2:17.3 | There's no wrong. I think for me, I'd probably be Steve Irwin. Who? Wow. You said Steve Irwin? Yeah. Is that like before my time? No, Animal Planet. He died. He got stung by a stingray, but he used to always... Okay, I heard the story. I just didn't connect the name. |
| 2:35.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
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