Nina Cash is one of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit’s 2024 rookies this year. That is not a name you know, but you will remember because of her age.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit revealed a co-winner of the magazine’s annual Swim Search as the 57-year-old retired university associate dean will appear in the issue’s 60th anniversary in May.
She recently snapped some stunning photos in Porto and the North, Portugal.
“This whole experience has just been nothing but magic to me. It’s been magical,” Cash said of her experience. “I’ve said this a gazillion times and I will keep saying it because it’s truly a way to express how I’m feeling, but I feel like a child the night before Christmas and it’s like, now it’s Christmas day today and I’m opening up all my presents and I’m filled with such happiness and gratitude and excitement. It’s just, it’s been wonderful.”
“It’s really nice to see the magazine and what it has evolved into and what MJ has done as editor in chief,” she said. “To be really honest, I don’t think my look or my age or my hair color would have been in the magazine 10, 15, 20 years ago, certainly not when the magazine started. So it is really awesome to see that a [Gen X–er] is being represented.”
Cash retired from her position as a university associate dean after 30 years in education and workforce development. Not in her wildest dreams could she have seen her life transition to being a model. Things changed after her husband Aaron snapped a series of photos of her rocking a leopard print bikini while on the beach in Australia.
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She submitted an application to Sports Illustrated, earning a spot in the top 24 of this year’s Swim Search.
Cash is a profoundly smart woman who earned her undergraduate degree in human services, her master’s degree in negotiation, conflict resolution, and peace-building, and her doctorate in educational leadership.
