By UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - There is more to Haleigh Washington than meets the eye.
On match day, she is the fired up middle hitter that's leading the NCAA in hitting percentage. But when she's not on the court, you can find her with her nose in a book and a cup of tea in hand. Poetry, philosophy, history. No genre is out of the question for Washington. She's currently reading Road of a Thousand Wonders by Jeffrey Joe Nelson, a compilation of contemporary poetry. Not many college students, not to mention student-athletes, are reading poetry in the little spare time that they have.