Cam Lexow, a graduate of Abington Senior High School, after years away from the game, has rekindled her passion for basketball at Gallaudet, writes Andrew Robinson for City of Basketball Love.

And she has done this at a school where she is one of the few hearing-abled students at the school.

Despite the challenges of reacclimating to the game of basketball after years away and of learning how to use American Sign Language with her teammates and other students, Lexow is thriving in her new environment.

It was while attending school and playing soccer at the University of Virginia, that she took her first class in American Sign Language and knew she wanted to be more involved in the deaf community and helping others.

That experience led her to graduate school at Gallaudet, a university in Washington D.C. for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing, and back to basketball which she hadn’t played since high school.

“It is everything I hoped it would be and more, if I’m completely honest,” Lexow said. “When I first came, I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew it’d be a lot of signing language and I’d be one of the people who wasn’t the best at sign language because everyone there is a native signer.”

Read more about how Abington grad Cam Lexow rekindled her passion for basketball at Gallaudet at City of Basketball Love.

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