Camryn Lexow, a 2019 graduate of Abington Senior High School, was recently featured in article by City of Basketball Love.

The article tracks Lexow’s ascent to D.C.-based Gallaudet University, a federally chartered institution for the deaf and hard of hearing, where she is now a first-year graduate student and a new member of the women’s basketball team.

Lexow is taking classes and communicating with her teammates through American Sign Language (ASL), which she began learning three years ago.

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

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 and knew she had found her niche.

“It’s definitely a new energy,” Lexow said. “I was so excited to be here. Even when I was still at Virginia and first heard about Gallaudet then decided I really wanted to go there, I’ve been working toward it.”

Lexow 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,

For the full story, you can click here. To watch Lexow’s basketball highlight video from her days at Abington, you can watch below:

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Photos: Gallaudet University