For most Division I basketball players, getting the chance to play in college is something they dream of as a little kid and work towards for their entire childhood. But that wasn’t the case for UConn’s Batouly Camara. She didn’t dream of playing basketball in college because she had never played the sport as a kid.
Camara grew up in New York City as the daughter of a Guinea West Africa immigrant. As a first generation family, they maintained values from their old country, which — like many places around the world — didn’t give women a lot of freedom to do what they wanted.