Kamila Shepard '28 Recruiting Profile

I just recently started taking basketball series my eighth grade year. I never saw myself wanting to play in the WNBA until recently. I want to be successful in my high school education and with basketball since school has always came easy to me. I see no struggle in the student athlete category. Basketball is my passion I wouldn’t give it up for anything. When anything goes wrong in my life I pick up a basketball and it just helps. My goal is to get into a good college and play basketball and hopefully go professional because I believe that’s the plan that God has set for me. Basketball is my safe space and no matter how many people talk down on me, I’m always going to strive to be better. Basketball has helped me control my emotions because there has been a long chain of anger issues in my family, but since I have picked up a basketball and fell in love with it, basketball has helped me to break that chain and open my mind for the better. I am a competitive person and I come from a competitive place that being Akron Ohio, because everyone knows that’s where LeBron James is from I’m looked at like I’m supposed to be better than what I am, which is not how it works in my eyes. Yes I do want to be better, yes I want to be the greatest, but I don’t wanna be looked at and my skills be compared to somebody that I’m not because of where I’m from, I want people to see that my dreams are a reality and that my hard work will pay off in the long run. I will do anything to strive towards my dream of playing professional sports. Basketball is my second priority, school is my first.