{"id":375537,"date":"2026-06-26T06:56:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375537\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:56:46","slug":"former-san-diego-athlete-found-dead-in-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375537\/","title":{"rendered":"Former San Diego athlete found dead in Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 San Diego authorities have identified the woman found dead in the Pacific Ocean last week as a former San Diego athlete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Summer Nash, 34, was found floating in the ocean on June 18 near the 5000 block of Newport Avenue, close to the Ocean Beach Pier, the San Diego County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lifeguards pulled her from the water around 3 p.m., but she was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nash was a star athlete and coach. She played volleyball for San Diego State and Florida International universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She also coached several teams during her athletic career, including the Tamarack Beach Volleyball Club, Torrey Pines High School, Mira Costa College, San Diego State University and WAVE Beach Volleyball Club. She was also an assistant coach for the Stanford Beach Volleyball program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nash\u2019s former coach, Coach Deitre, posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaBN2eSAVLu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:tribute on Instagram;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;tribute on Instagram&quot;}\" class=\"link \">tribute on Instagram<\/a> saying she is \u201cheartbroken to learn of the passing of my former player.\u201d She continued, in part, \u201cMy heart aches for her family, friends, teammates, and everyone whose lives she touched. There are simply no words for a loss like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her cause of death is under investigation by the San Diego Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fox5sandiego.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp; KUSI News.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp;amp&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX 5 San Diego &amp; KUSI News. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (FOX 5\/KUSI) \u2014 San Diego authorities have identified the woman found dead in the Pacific Ocean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[21866,4130,74,76,75,300],"class_list":["post-375537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-beach-volleyball","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}