Recently, we (digitally) sat down with a rising star, Anessa Campos. Campos is a midfield/forward for California State University Northridge in her second year who is blazing all kinds of trails at her young age.
Campos is a deaf player and A Fair Shot’s newest ambassador. In our interview, we picked her brain about her career thus far, her ambassadorship, and her hopes for the future.
You were a two-sport athlete in high school; what made you stick with soccer over softball?
I originally started with T-Ball / Softball at the age of four. All I knew was softball, and I even played club. I started recreational soccer around 11 years old but didn’t know much about it. All my friends played, and I wanted to try something different from what I knew my whole sports life! I ended up joining club soccer a year later, in eighth grade.
During freshman year, I knew I wanted to try out for both and made both Varsity teams. It was the busiest year for me ever. My Varsity softball coach was also a club coach, so we worked as hard as we could as a Division 1 softball team. I would go to club soccer practice after softball with black under my eyes and completely exhausted!
After the end of softball season, I remember my coach saying I needed to pick one sport to dedicate the…
 sat down with Anessa Campos, Deaflympics champion and A Fair Shot ambassador. Check out her story.){kind=link}