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SOFTBALL UNVEILS NEW REGGIE SMITH SOFTBALL COMPLEX The University of San Diego softball program unveiled its new ballpark in March. The Reggie Smith Softball Complex will serve as the team’s new home as a state-of-the-art Division I softball facility. The new stadium was built on the existing USD Softball Complex and was part of a $14.5 million project made possible in part by a lead gift from an anonymous donor. Naming rights for the complex were chosen in part due to the impact of Linda Vista resident and longtime campus icon Reggie Smith. “The way [Reggie] has impacted the Linda Vista community and the San Diego community as a whole will live on for generations and generations,” University of San Diego Associate Vice President and Director of Athletics Kimya Massey said.

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volleyball. That’s how I got to the point of being a businesswoman.” Her path to USD began at age 12 when she started receiving her first volleyball scholarship offers from universities such as Texas Tech. By her junior year of high school, she had “tons of offers,” but chose USD because of her connection with Volleyball Head Coach Jennifer Petrie. “We clicked just like this,” she said, snapping her fingers. Beach’s vision extends far beyond graduation. After college, she plans to move to Houston to attend nursing school and become a travel nurse — all while growing her clothing brand and establishing nonprofits, including a Houston chapter of BASE to complement her mother’s Arizona chapter and her uncle’s branch in Oregon. “I know what I’m doing for the next seven years already,” she said, matter-of-factly. Her entrepreneurial ventures haven’t been hampered by Name, Image, and

Likeness deals that have transformed college athletics. Beach takes a practical approach to these opportunities, coordinating photo shoots with USD athletes, working with videographers and fine-tuning fabric compositions with manufacturers for her brand. She’s already planning to expand beyond hoodies and sweatpants to velour sets — think Juicy Couture circa 2000, but for taller frames. Beach represents a new generation of student-athletes who are leveraging their college experience as a launchpad for multiple careers rather than a pathway to a single profession. For her, volleyball scholarships, business ventures and nursing aspirations aren’t competing interests, but complementary threads of a carefully crafted future, one where she continues to tick items off her ever-present to-do list. “If I have a thought, it’s going to get done.” — Kelsey Grey ’15

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