MOBILE, Ala. – Approximately 450 miles north of Mobile on Interstate 65, one former University of South Alabama student-athlete is on the front line helping battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
Abby Baker — who lettered in volleyball at USA from 2013-17 — is a registered nurse in the Nurse Residency Program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., where she works in the Medicine/Cardiac Stepdown unit dealing directly with COVID-19 patients.
"Being one of the main medicine units, ours was a good option to become the COVID-19 unit," she explained. "We are isolated from most of the hospital, which makes it the perfect place.