From High-School Softball Superstar to Collegiate Surprise. Traci Shaw recalls her challenges.

Traci Shaw is a graduate from Castro Valley High School where she played four years of varsity softball, was Captain three of those years and celebrated four consecutive league championships resulting in four NCS playoffs. She was a four-time all-conference and Scholar Athlete selection and was recognized as Cal-Hi third team all-state, second team all-Metro, and first team all-league as a senior. In Fall 2016, she became a Hornet student-athlete as she began her first year at Sacramento State. Her second year, she suffered from a season-ending injury during the first practice that required complete knee reconstruction. Traci is a Psychology major, studying to become a clinical sports psychologist to work with collegiate and professional athletes and is studying abroad in London at Kingston University for her senior year. This is her story of what has taken her down a path to success and is a continuing part of the Athletes Interrupted series supported by an NCAA grant to help student-athletes better understand the challenges in the transition from high school to collegiate level sports and academics.