Abington alum, former Gatorade Player of the Year named Player of the Week as a grad student at Gallaudet University

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January 15th, 2025 | By Ryan Genova

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 Offensive Player of the Week in the United East Conference.

Lexow led Gallaudet to a perfect 2-0 week in conference play and averaged 23.5 points per game, 5.5 rebounds, 4.5 steals, 2.5 assists and 1.5 blocks on the week while accumulating 47 points, 11 rebounds, nine steals, five assists and three blocks in 48 minutes played. Lexow shot .500 from the field (21 for 42).

This is Lexow’s second United East Player of the Week award this season and third in her women’s basketball career. She was named the Defensive Player of the Week in November.


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.

“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.

11/29/23 – Washington, DC: Gallaudet University, Basketball
11/29/23 – Washington, DC: Gallaudet University, Basketball


“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.

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