As Campbell reached higher levels in the sport, it was time to find out the next step on her road to success. Towards the end of her high school career, Campbell’s mother created and sent out highlight tapes of her gymnastics competitions to several schools.
Although she would take a few official visits, Campbell always had her heart set on the University of Maryland. Growing up just minutes from College Park, it was a place that was always familiar and comfortable.
“I grew up close to the University of Maryland, so I was familiar with it, and it was a school lots of people were looking at going to,” she said. “I was looking at a number of schools, Maryland being one.”
Once the recruiting process began, Campbell became very serious about the prospect of attending Maryland and narrowed her decision down to just two Universities.
However, just before making her decision, adversity struck. Campbell suffered a knee injury, which put her career in jeopardy.
“I went to the campuses, met the coaches. At the end of the day I was looking at Maryland and Kentucky. I had full scholarship offers from both schools. Unfortunately for me, I tore my ACL right before I committed. Back in those days they didn't really know if you would come back from an ACL tear, so I actually did lose my scholarship at that time.”
For Campbell, her ACL injury was never going to slow her down. Instead, she used it as motivation to get stronger and reach the heights she had once reached. She committed to Maryland, and never looked back.
“I worked hard that year to rehabilitate,” Campbell said. “There's no greater feeling than being able to come back from an injury like that, and being able to [compete] again. I don't think I was ever so excited to do gymnastics again in my whole life.”
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