Arica Nassar: Volleyball, 2011-2014 and new Assistant Coach

Arica Nassar has had quite the athletic career, balancing basketball & volleyball for a year at OSU before sticking with volleyball and playing in every match from 2011-2014. She concluded her collegiate career with the volleyball program's most successful season in history as the team won its first two NCAA Tournament matches ever. After a pro volleyball career in Europe, Arica got into coaching and recently got a promotion on the OSU staff as the new assistant coach.

I talked with Arica about her volleyball career, transitioning into coaching, and her family backstory of her father moving from Accra, Ghana to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But, one of the first things we talked about her experience of living in places like Oregon, Finland, and Sweden -- places where, as she put it, more people look like me than like her. It was poignant to hear her perspective and why she decided to come back to Corvallis at least somewhat long-term.

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