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WATCH NOW: Former Dominican High School, LSU volleyball players ink local NIL deal [Video]

OK, and we’re just getting an nil deal local deal. I mean, how much does that mean to you? Um It means *** lot like, I love being able to like give back to the community through this nil deal, like help small businesses and do stuff like that with them. Um We the nil like opportunities just started opening up like it’s *** brand new thing through like colleges and like working with college athletes. So uh Sanders reached out to us and we, he just like wanted to help us build our brands and like get more nil deals and to like help his brand. And so like, we kind of are just working together to try to like figure out all this nil stuff in general. Just how cool is it to see that, you know, the nil just reaching Bobby because at first it was like, oh football, baseball, basketball now you’re getting all the every so yeah. Um Yeah, it’s crazy. I’m like really excited to get started going into it, like building my social media and like just posting more. I’m like really excited about like the whole experience of being able to do that. What does it mean to you? I mean outside of just you know, building. Yeah. Um it means *** lot to me because I feel like it’s *** way for me to like push my values through like brands that I connect with. Like Crescent just has like the similar values to me so I can like put myself like into what I’m doing. So I just get to choose like which brands I can pick and like, try to connect with so that I can like represent myself even better. It’s super cool to see that. And Il is reaching volleyball now to see that. It’s not just the big sports that are getting all these opportunities. It’s really cool to know that young volleyball players can see through us that these opportunities are available for them if they’re willing to put themselves out there and doing it together. Yeah. Right. No, it means *** lot like, especially to grow up together and then to represent LSU, *** college we grew up shooting for and then to also now represent *** local business to this nil, like it’s just super awesome that it’s all through our community and with the people we love and that have always supported us, anything that you wanna do good with that money or something you’re trying to build upon with that money. And I will do um not really sure, but we are hoping to give back to the younger kids through clinics. We’re planning on having, uh, indoor volleyball clinic over Thanksgiving and then another one over Christmas. And then later on, once summer comes *** beach clinic just to keep paving the way for younger athletes and help them get to where we’ve gotten just to get *** couple of local girls who are now at LSU, *** local nil deal that’s, you know, gotta be something special and that needs *** lot. It does and, and, and what better way to do it, you know. Uh my family grew up watching these two young girls play at Lakeshore Playground and obviously what they’ve done here at Dominican. Moving on LSU, they were *** perfect match for us to be able to invest in two local athletes and market our brand at the same time. So we’re really looking forward to this, this partnership.

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