FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A freshman volleyball player is racking up points and making starts in almost every Fresno State match this season. <\/p>\n
Brooklyn Washington has recorded the 3rd-most points (98.5) and kills (62) on the team, while patrolling the net as a middle blocker.<\/p>\n
The Clovis East HS grad is having a breakout campaign, but it’s par for the course in a Washington family of former Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
Brooklyn’s father Raymond played cornerback for Fresno State football teams from 2002-05, earning an invite to Oakland Raiders training camp.<\/p>\n
Her mother Megan competed in track & field and cross country as a Bulldog from 2001-02. <\/p>\n
Brooklyn never felt pressured to follow in their footsteps. Her parents implored that she follow her heart instead.<\/p>\n
Yet, growing up around her parents’ trophies and medals left an impression on Washington, who saw the value in sharing something in common with them.<\/p>\n
“They were able to share with me their experiences [at] Fresno State… being athletes as well as students,” said Washington. “We all kind of relate on that and connect with that… That’s something that’s very powerful to have, and not a lot of people have it, so I’m super grateful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A freshman volleyball player is racking up points and making starts in almost every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1337,1344,1342,1338,1341,1343,9,24,63,1340,1339],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-washington","tag-bulldogs","tag-family-legacy","tag-fresno-state","tag-kills","tag-middle-blocker","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-points","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}