Star athlete recognized as girl whose physique discovered off standard San Diego seaside

A girl discovered lifeless within the water close to a well-liked seaside in San Diego final week has been recognized as a star volleyball participant and avid surfer.

Summer time Nash, 34, was seen floating within the water close to Ocean Seashore Pier on June 18 earlier than lifeguards recovered her physique and pronounced her lifeless on the scene, in accordance with the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Workplace.

The style of her dying stays below investigation.

An individual figuring out themselves as Nash’s mom described her as a surfer who frequented scorching spots round San Diego.

“She was lovely, deeply empathetic, and an completed athlete,” the individual, Avery, commented in a publish from the native publication OB Rag. Over the previous couple of years, she’s spent a lot of her time browsing seashores from Tourmaline to Mission. The loss is insurmountable.”

Nash performed volleyball at San Diego State and Florida Worldwide universities earlier than transitioning into teaching roles for powerhouses packages at Florida State and Stanford universities..

She appeared to have final coached for Stanford in the course of the 2022-2023 season.

Nash’s head coach at SDSU, Deitre Collins, mourned her in an Instagram publish, noting the participant began many video games for the Aztecs and led the staff in kills for her 2013 senior season.

“Heartbroken to study of the passing of my former participant, Summer time Nash,” she wrote.

“Summer time was an distinctive expertise on the volleyball courtroom, however what I’ll bear in mind most is the individual she was. She had an attractive spirit, a form coronary heart, and a presence that made these round her higher. She was actually a particular soul.”

Matt Olson, government director of San Diego’s WAVE Seashore Volleyball membership, advised The California Submit he labored with Nash for years.

He referred to as her a “fantastic coach” for the membership volleyball group and “one of many nicest individuals I’ve ever met in my life.”

Olson described Nash as a really bodily participant who may “hit the snot out of the ball.”

“Individuals didn’t serve her as a result of they had been petrified of her physicality and her means to crush the ball,” he mentioned.

Olson mentioned he took her browsing a number of years in the past, however she had a “tough outing.” Nonetheless, he wasn’t wasn’t stunned that she threw herself into the game.

“[Her death] was devastating, and I actually assume the seaside volleyball neighborhood was higher along with her, and it’s an enormous loss,” he mentioned.

Nash’s dying got here as Southern California officers warned of towering waves and harmful surf situations earlier this month.

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