The Notre Dame High School grad resides in Robbinsville, where she's purchased her first home.
Michelle Campbell has played professional basketball every year since graduating from Rutgers in 2006.
She has played in several countries, and this spring completed her ninth season in Turkey.
For the first time since turning pro, which included one season in the WNBA, she is taking a break.
Generally on the run for most of the year, she has been in the area since April and will likely remain until January.
Now 32, the Notre Dame High School grad resides in Robbinsville, where she's purchased her first home.
While she projects playing ball for another few years, Campbell is spending more time on her next career.
She's sponsoring a couple of high school teams out of Life Center Academy in Burlington and last month she ran basketball camps at Trenton Catholic Academy, in Trenton, and in Philadelphia.
She also runs basketball clinics for different age groups, but her primary interest is working with Special Olympics, where she volunteered last month at Camp Shriver in Lawrenceville.
Campbell is delaying her return to playing in order to take care of business details she could not address overseas.
"I'm very involved in a lot of progressions in Special Olympics. I'm doing a lot more with them,'' she said. "I'm involved here and in Turkey as well, and I'm in the process of working with Special Olympics more globally.''
Raised in Princeton along with three sisters, her parents have relocated to North Carolina. Her father Mel was an executive at Johnson and Johnson, her mother Regina was a teacher at Notre Dame High School.
Campbell knows not everyone can work with special needs children.
"I say that all the time; that it's not for everybody. With Special Olympics, there are certain people I bring with me. It probably comes from my parents,'' she said about her empathy and sensitivity.
"My parents are awesome. All my friends are like, 'Where's your parents?' When I say they moved to North Carolina they're like, 'Why!'''
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Her sisters are scattered as well. Melanie, 34, is a singer and currently in Italy with an opera company. Kristina, 29, works in management and lives on Long Island, and Korinne, 28, plays basketball in Australia.
And of course there are the kids.
"I love the kids. They really are great,'' she said. "Every time I go there it's nice to see kids apply to what you teach them. They have a ball, and a lot of them are return kids so I know a lot of them.''
Her company, michellecampbellhoops.com, is focused on, she said, "Trying to help the level of basketball in New Jersey. We've always produced top Division 1 players and I'm trying to get girls back to that. I'm focusing on attitudes and hard work. I was to a lot of camps growing up and they focused just on basketball. But it's not just about basketball.
"You have to have some type of personality and you have to have confidence in yourself. At the end of the day,'' Campbell said, "if you don't have that you're not really going to go very far. With females, the confidence aspect it not always the highest. You have to use everything you have to get what you need. So I help a lot of girls do that with my camps, and try and get companies to donate to send girls to camp.
"We want to do things that will change this area, and I have a feeling we will because the feedback has been really, really good.''
Campbell also has held camps at her Notre Dame, her high school alma mater in Lawrence.
Camps in Philadelphia, she said, "Serve a purpose for a lot of things; teaching them right from wrong and keeping them out of trouble. It's a really good thing for inner-city kids.''
Eventually she would like to run a tournament, perhaps kids from Jersey camps vs. Philly camps, or just in-state.
As for Special Olympics, that is ongoing all year. After Campbell's playing days are over her involvement with special needs children will be full speed ahead.
"Life is good,'' Campbell offered. "It's definitely different being stable and in one place instead of bouncing around from place to place. I love it here. I'm happy. I'm happy and blessed that I've accomplished many things in my life that put me in a position to help other girls.''
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