Kayla Simmons may well have pursued a career in professional volleyball.

And odds are, she would’ve been pretty successful had that been the path that she had chosen.

After all, Simmons finished her college career with over 2,000 assists for Conference USA’s Marshall Thundering Herd. The 5-foot-9-inch Gainesville, Florida native certainly left her mark on the program.

Though she had plenty of other options as well. Simmons began her foray into modeling and social media influencing while still in school at Marshall.

This was something the school wasn’t always entirely supportive of.

Thankfully for Simmons, she tuned out the haters. The blonde bombshell now has a jaw-dropping one-million-plus followers on Instagram and an incredibly successful modeling career.

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