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Disability and Sports

Croatian Radio and Television Network: "Goalball: Paralympic sport as an elective course for all students." May 4, 2016. http://sport.hrt.hr/329584/goalball-paraolimpijski-sport-izborni-kolegij-za-sve-studente

Sveuciliste u Zagrebu, Ekonomski Fakultet (2016): "Na Ekonomiji prestavljen goalball, sport za slijepe koji prosiruje perspektive." Article PDF available here (in Croatian).

UC Berkeley News Center (2016). "Power soccer joins Berkeley's list of inclusive sports" written by Gretchen Kell and video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian. http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/03/01/power-soccer-joins-berkeleys-list-of-inclusive-sports/

Berkeley Educator. (2015), Graduate School of Education Annual Magazine: “Chancellor Nicholas Dirks recognizes first collegiate Goalball Team” by Gretchen Kell. PDF version available here.

San Jose Mercury News (cover story): NCAA dreams for Cal's competitive blind team by Katy Murphy. November 27, 2014
Republished by the Los Angeles Daily News. December 13, 2014

Annenberg Media, University of Southern California: "Seeing Past the Limits" by Brenna Devanney. December 10, 2015.

KTSF Channel 26 News (2015), "Cal Goalball Team for Blind Students" by Jo Wan. http://www.ktsf.com/cal-goalball-team-for-blind-students/ (featured in Mandarin). Originally aired October 2, 2015.

KTSF Channel 26 News (2015), "Tiffany Zhou and her Goalball Team Story" by Jo Wan. http://www.ktsf.com/news-video/?bcid=4528030650001 (featured in Mandarin). Originally aired October 5, 2016.

CBS Radio: "Cal's Power Soccer Program Setting a New Inclusive Standard for Athletics" by Doug Sovern. First aired March 5, 2015. Audio recording here.

UC Section Club Inc. (2015). Breeze Philanthropy Giving Report, Featuring New Net Purchases for the Cal Goalball Team. Fall 2015 PDF Report Version.

ACB (American Council of the Blind) Radio: Speaking Out for the Blind, UC Berkeley and Goalball interview with Dr. Derek Van Rheenen.

LA Times (cover story): "Goalball, a sport invented for blind WWII vets, catches on at Cal" by Larry Gordon. April 18, 2015. http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-blind-sports-20150418-story.html.

KQED PBS and UC Berkeley News Center: Golf with Marty is a Lesson in Inclusitiviy by Jeremy Raff (KQED) and Gretchen Kell (UC Berkeley). March 12, 2015

UC Berkeley News Center: New Athletic Team Breaks Barriers for the Disabled by Gretchen Kell. October 14, 2014

Comcast Sports Network Bay Area: Cal Offering Goalball Academic Course by Fallon Smith. Originally aired (reoccurring) March 15, 2014

Athletic Management Magazine (2015), "Poised to Score: Developing ways for student's with disabilities to participate in sports is not just a thing to do. It's a mandate from the federal government. Here's how some schools are stepping up" by Caitlin Hayes. October / November 2015 Edition.

UC Berkeley Press Release: Professor Derek Van Rheenen's “Education, The Student Body, and Disability: Goalball, Power Soccer and Golf with Marty” class join UC Berkeley with power soccer and athletics by Gretchen Kell. August, 24, 2015. http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/08/21/power-soccer-to-join-athletics-for-fall-lineup/

CBS Evening News: A Sport for the blind broadens perspectives by John Blackstone. June 2, 2013

ABC Channel 7 News San Francisco Bay Area: UC Berkeley Students Test Sport Designed for Visually Impaired by Lyanne Melendez. originally aired April 29, 2013

CAL TV: UC Berkeley Goalball by Braunstein, K., Darvin K., Ramanathan, R., Thibault L., and Banares, M. December 3, 2014

UC Berkeley News Center: "Power Soccer to join athletics lineup" by Gretchen Kell. August 24, 2015. http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/08/21/power-soccer-to-join-athletics-for-fall-lineup/

PAC 12 Network: Cal Goalaball by Roxanne Makasdjan. November 2, 2013

UC Berkeley News: TV news highlights. Fall 2013

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism: Anyones Game by Jake Nicol. May 4, 2014

The Daily California: Visually impaired students score in campus goalball team by Phillip Cerles. September 21, 2014

NBC News KGW Portland: PSU to host 'goalball' tournament for the visually impaired by Art Edwards. Original aired March 24, 2015.

JJslist (Where business and people with disabilities connect): "Goalball: A Collegiate Sport for Athletes with Disabilities” by JJ Hanley. January 27, 2015. http://www.jjslist.com/blog/goalball-a-collegiate-sport-for-athletes-with-disabilities

West Welfare Society Territory: "Goalball mania spreads among Berkeley's blind students" by Ann Madia. January 20, 2015. http://www.west-info.eu/goalball-mania-spreads-among-berkeleys-blind-students/

CBS Radio: "About the Bay: UC Berkeley Introduces ‘Goalball’, A Sport For Blind Students" by Mike Sugerman. November 10, 2014. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/audio/mike-sugermans-about-the-bay/

Berkeleyside: "Disabled Athletes Among Beneficiaries of UC Berkeley Fund" by Jasper Burget. May 20, 2014. http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/05/20/disabled-athletes-high-school-high-achievers-among-beneficiaries-of-cal-fund/

UC Berkeley News Center: "Fitness-for-All is an exercise in inclusion" by Cathy Cockwell. April 24, 2014. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/24/fitness-for-all-is-an-exercise-in-inclusion/

Student Athletes and Academic Performance

San Francisco Chronicle: Cal Basketball, A Scholar as Well as an Athlete; Freshman Brown's Interest Extend far Beyond the Court by Connor Letourneau. Published 5 March 2016.

California Magazine: Back in the Game: Cal Program Helps Former Student-Athletes Graduate by Coby McDonald. Spring 2015 Edition.

Insight@Berkeley: Wanderlust: Talking Soccer, Academia, and Traveling with Derek Van Rheenen by Elizabeth Layman. http://insightberkeley.com/wanderlust-talking-soccer-academia-and-traveling-with-derek-van-rheenen/

UC Berkeley News Center: Coaching Cal athletes for success after sports by Steve Hockensmith. March 12, 2012

Washington Post: At Cal Berkeley, Challenging Stereotypes of NCAA Athletes as Students by Sally Jenkins. November 24, 2011

Berkeley Blog: Derek Van Rheenen, Director, Athletic Study Center. 2010

KQED Radio: Pass Interference by Dave Iverson. February 6, 2009

Berkeleyan: Faculty Athletic Fellows program goes beyond good sportsmanship. New program gives Cal athletes a competitive edge off the playing field by Wendy Edelstein. October 20, 2005.

S an Francisco Chronicle: Cal lecturer looks behind the chalk lines / Berkeley's Derek Van Rheenen traces the history of hopscotch by Josh Sens. February 28, 2003

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, Term Paper Journal Vol. V, No. 2: Student Athletes Break Stereotypes in GSE Classes. Spring 1999