Source: L.A. Sentinel
Junior guard Camryn Washington is in her first season with the Cal State, Dominguez Hills Toros women’s basketball team.
Washington transferred from Cal State East Bay, where she hit her career high of 26 points during the 2023-2024 season. While choosing to transfer was a big move, Washington was content with becoming a Toro.
“The transition has been very healthy, something I prayed about and was seeking God’s guidance to be able to transfer,” she said. “It was more of the coaches wanted me and being here, [head coach Nautica Morrow] has been pushing me to grow in more ways than one.”
Throughout her time as a student athlete, Washington has thrived academically. She has been named on the Winter and Spring CCAA Academic Honor Roll and on the CCAA All-Academic team.
A proud moment for Washington was when she recovered from injuring her ACL and meniscus.
“I took my recovery very serious, mentally and physically to the point where I’m back stronger,” Washington said. “Nobody could really see but myself and just surprising myself and how I’ve came back and how I challenged the adversity that was given to me.”
Growing up, Washington competed in competitive cheer and basketball. Her mother was her cheer coach and her father coached her in basketball. After getting injured in cheer, Washington focused more on basketball.
Competitive cheer provided Washington with conditioning and strength, which helped her in basketball.
“In competitive cheer, it’s a lot of holding one another, balance, having to throw each other up,” Washington said. “Or have conditioning for a two-minute and 30-second routine, which doesn’t sound like a lot but … it’s a lot.”
Washington sees being a college student athlete as a blessing. The Fairfield, CA native is a business accounting major.
“To be able to be an athlete at the collegiate level and just being a student of the game but also in the classroom, I feel like it’s a blessing,” Washington said. “It means the world to me because not everyone gets the privilege to be a student athlete.”
In the future, Washington aspires to attend grad school and become an accountant. She also aspires to become a pro athlete, competing either overseas or in the United States.
