She operates as if she doesn't have a disability, and we don't treat her like she has one. “She's pretty good at standing volleyball. “She's a real hard worker and she has great attitude,” PFW coach Steve Florio said. He knew what He was doing and who He was picking.”Įven with her prosthetic, Cami still attends PFW volleyball camps, and sometimes she goes to practices to play sitting volleyball with the team. “She has the right personality to be able to attack this full force. “She's the only one of my (four) kids who could have handled this,” Evan Wood said. Before he could turn around, she was on the court doing most of the dribbling drills on one leg.Ĭami's personalty is full of life and giggles, unending determination and a little bit of attitude, and as her father said, happy-go-lucky like she has the world by the tail. When her parents explained why she couldn't participate one year because of her leg problem, coach Marc Davidson invited her to help out as the scorekeeper. Even before receiving her prosthetic leg on the last day of first grade, she regularly attended Blackhawk Christian basketball camps. If anything, she's tried more sports than she might have with two healthy legs. Her goal in high school is to play volleyball, basketball and tennis – all on the varsity. Before the surgery to remove her left leg, she was in love with volleyball, baseball and basketball, and now she's tried a dozen other sports, including surfing, golf, tennis, track, sitting volleyball, softball, air rifle, swimming and biking and wants to try parasailing, bungee jumping and goalball and is always looking for new ideas. Nothing seems to slow the Blackhawk Christian student down. Last year, the pandemic meant she had seven such out-of-state trips canceled, so she was really anxious to try new things. Joe, Cami spent the end of her summer squeezing in as many sports camps as possible, including a softball trip to Wisconsin. Now 11, she's busier than she ever was before her amputation.Ĭoming off her Wildcat Baseball League season at St. Losing a leg at age 7 to a developmental disorder would crush most young athletes' dreams, but Cami Wood somehow keeps going faster.

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