Camryn Lexow, a 2019 graduate of Abington Senior High School and a member of Gallaudet University’s women’s basketball team, has been named the Defensive Player of the Week in the United East Conference. She was named the conference’s Offensive Player of the Week on January 13.

Lexow totaled 26 points, 13 rebounds, eight assists, seven blocks and five steals as Gallaudet went 2-0 for the week. Her seven blocks extend her league-leading total to 44 blocks on the season with a 2.6 per game average, good for seventh in NCAA Division III.

Lexow’s five steals also brought her season-long total to 61, best in the United East and fourth in the country. She is fifth in the league with a 16.6 points per game average and third in the league with 283 total points while shooting 48.4 percent from the field.

Lexow is a second-year graduate student at D.C.-based Gallaudet, which is a federally chartered institution for the deaf and hard of hearing. She communicates with her teammates through American Sign Language (ASL), which she began learning three years ago.

Lexow played four years for the Ghosts in soccer and basketball and went on to play soccer at the University of Virginia as an undergraduate. She started learning ASL at Virginia as a psych major.

She was named the Gatorade PA State Player of the Year in soccer as a senior at Abington. The last time she suited up in a basketball uniform was March 15, 2019 in a PIAA quarterfinal.

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