Ending up as a star on Battle of the Blades was never something Campbell expected, but when fellow Canadian women’s national hockey team member Natalie Spooner proposed the idea to her, she thought it could be something fun and exciting to try.
“It was kind of an interesting route of how I got involved,” she said. “They have a process for recruiting and they were looking for different athletes and it’s been kind of an odd year with Covid and hockey being uncertain at the time. Last spring and summer I was coaching—because I’m now a full-time skating coach—and I was actually working with Natalie Spooner in Kelowna. She’s a judge on the show and she’d previously been on the show and she’s a former teammate of mine, so she was actually the one in the conversation with the cast. She asked me if I’d consider going on the show and if I’d move to Toronto for a few months and I said sure, so that’s how it started. It seemed like a cool idea and adventure and it’s for charity so it was a unique, but cool opportunity and so I jumped on it and signed up.”