Camille Gendron '22 Recruiting Profile

Over the past four years, I have found myself growing to love diving more and more each day. Like school, diving is a mental game, you have to push yourself to the limit and out of your comfort zone to achieve success. I recently joined a new club team, and at first, I was terrified of being judged by the other divers and trying to get to know them. I quickly realized that the best divers lifted themselves up and were confident to show what they could do. I am proud to say that within a week on the team I had a new group of close friends and my diving had never looked better. Although diving is considered an individual sport, I firmly believe that any team that I am apart of will feel like a family. There are other girls on my team that spend practice either showing off and tearing others down or wasting time in the hot tub. I can assure you that I am not one of those girls. If this pandemic has taught me anything it's that time is precious and shouldn't be wasted. I go into practice with the full intention of using whatever time is given to me to walk out a stronger diver, whether physically or mentally. I believe that successful teams are the ones that work together to encourage each other and not compete against one another to tear each other down. In the end, we are all fighting the same battle. Diving has also improved my academics. It has helped me to develop time management skills as well as an understanding of the success that teamwork and motivation can bring. Diving is a huge part of my life, but I make sure that school is as well. My school work is always a top priority of mine and I take it very seriously. If you decide to let me be part of your team I can assure you you will be receiving a hardworking team player that is driven to create the best version of themselves AND the team.