A 2025 graduate of Gimnazija Bežigrad, Nagode competed as a 6-foot forward for the Dragons under head coach Jan Bezica. The Dovce, Slovenia native recorded a single-game high of 25 points during her high school career.

The four-year letterwinner helped her teams capture back-to-back U20 national championships during the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 seasons, along with a U17 national championship and Women's Adriatic Basketball Association League title during the 2020-2021 season. Nagode competed at the senior level during the 2024-2025 season, contributing to a third-place finish at the national championship and another WABA League championship, while also helping her U20 squad finish third in the country.

Zoja is the daughter of Aleksander and Svjetlana Nagode and hopes to major in graphic design ... chose JBU because of her brother's inspiration, as he also loves John Brown University and play's basketball for the men's team.