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Cam’s lived experience as a living liver donor sits at the center of her advocacy. In July 2023, she donated 70% of her liver to her mother, who was in liver failure due to polycystic kidney and liver disease, giving her a second chance at life and reshaping the course of Cam’s own. The months that followed had one goal: get back on the soccer pitch. Cam worked relentlessly with her team’s trainers and doctors to rebuild, ultimately returning to play months earlier than anyone thought she could.
Against all odds, Cam then did something no one had ever done: the following year, she returned to NCAA Division I soccer as one of the only known athletes to come back to high‑level competition after donating a major organ. She closed her collegiate career in the fall of 2024, starting matches and logging significant minutes on Portland State’s back line, helping her team reach the Big Sky Tournament semifinals while finishing her Applied Health and Fitness degree and working as a strength and conditioning intern. Her return to play and performance were so remarkable that physicians conducted and published a medical case study on her post‑donation return to sport, documenting her journey from donor to competitive athlete as a model for what might be possible for future living donors.
When Cam moved back home to Texas after graduating from college, her story continued to grow, not just on the field, but on the start line and on the microphone. She was selected to join the American Liver Foundation’s Liver Life Challenge team and was later named ALF’s 2025 Liver Life Challenge National LIVEr Champion, representing living donors and families impacted by liver disease. As part of that team, she raised over $10,000 to support education, advocacy, research, and resources for the millions of people affected by liver disease and became a Boston Marathon finisher in April 2025 with Team ALF.
Cam now uses every mile and every microphone as a platform. She speaks to medical teams, patient groups, athletes, and community organizations about living donation, what recovery really looks like, and how to support both patients and caregivers over the long haul. She openly champions the University Health Transplant Institute in San Antonio as the place where she and her mother received life‑saving care, highlighting it as one of the nation’s leading liver transplant programs and a recognized leader in living donor transplantation. She also serves as a UNOS Ambassador, helping educate communities about transplantation, organ allocation, and the urgent, ongoing need for organ donors.
And she has not stopped testing limits. In November 2025, Cam completed her first 100‑mile ultramarathon, a feat that very few people on the planet will ever attempt, let alone achieve. For Cam, that finish line was more than a buckle or a time; it was living proof that a living organ donor can do anything, and an invitation for others to believe that their hardest chapters can become the most powerful part of their story.