In the first episode of Breaking Barriers, I was joined by Jia Weathersby. Weathersby is a Junior volleyball player majoring in Marketing. She is a native of Athens, Tennessee, and started playing volleyball a little later than others. In the first episode, Weathersby discusses her process of coming onto the Piedmont women's volleyball team, being one of the two black girls on the team. Weathersby also talks about a few struggles she's had in high school playing club volleyball, including being judged due to her skin color.