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Blind Ambition

Catherine Scharf is a UB swimmer with a secret.

She is legally blind.

But water is a great equalizer. In it, her eyes don’t matter. She can be like everyone else, if not better.

She just can’t see the scores when she gets out of the pool.

Cat, a Division I athlete and a junior health and human services major, competes as a sprinter in the 50 and 100 freestyle and the 100 butterfly on the women’s swimming and diving team.

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