WOMEN

It was supposed to be the first day of my grown-up life. My first time alone, playing basketball abroad. It became the first day of my new, second life, though……

Everyone always asks me… “Touly, what exactly do you do?”. My name is Batouly Fatoumata Camara. I am a Muslim woman and first-gen Guinean. I am also a native New…

Everyday counts. You have to make it sure that everyday counts. You must be very determined and have a lot of perseverance. In life, to achieve anything, you must have…

Growing up, injury was never a fear of mine. I had many fears, but injury was never even a thought in the back of my mind. I had a simple…

You can’t forget something like that. I don’t want to forget it. I got through it. They might be one or two things you don’t want to see or face…

Every trip back home is certainly a blessing. But this is a sad one. Obviously we had high goals as a team in Panathinaikos women’s basketball team and we learned…

Sometimes I try to take myself out of Maria, so I can understand that what I have accomplished so far is quite enormous. But then, when everything returns to normal,…

I became a mother while I was still in the University of Michigan. I believe that everything happens for a reason. This is how I grew up. I didn’t know she was there. She was a blessing in disguise, as I use to say.