Photo gallery: 2016 Paralympic Games | Sunday Sept. 11, 2016

Photo posted September 11, 2016 in

Sunday was the fourth day of the Paralympics and the first day that Penn State journalists had to see the competition. (A team from teh University of Georgia covered the opening of the games.) At track and field David Brown won 100m gold and his mother wept tears of joy. A blind fan listened to an audio broadcast of football five-a-side, a Paralympic event in which the only player on the field who can see is the goalie. 

(These photos were first published by The Associated Press on Summer Games 2016.)

About the Contributors

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Shannon Ryan

Senior / Broadcast Journalism and Political Science

Shannon Ryan is a mutimedia journalist and passionate storyteller who plans to pursue a career in television news. She is graduating in December, a semester early.  As a student reporter she traveled to Greece to cover the refugee crisis and to Brazil to cover the 2016 Paralympic Games.

Shannon has interned for the New York State Broadcasters Association, NBC WNYT-NewsChannel 13 in Albany, N.Y., ESPNU as a campus correspondent, and as a sideline reporter for the Big Ten Network StudentU’s; which stream live on BTN2go.com and air on the Big Ten Network. She also works for Penn State Athletics, in production and as a reporter. She has also freelanced for CBS This Morning.  This summer she will be the daytime news intern for FOX29 Philadelphia.

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Cameron Hart

Senior / Visual Journalism

Cameron Hart fell in love with photography his first year of college and is exploring documentary and journalistic photography. Branching into multimedia journalism he has discovered a passion for telling stories through building relationships and establishing personal connections. Last summer he interned with the Toledo Blade. Follow him on Instagram @cameronhartphoto

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Antonella Crescimbeni

Senior / Visual Journalism

Antonella is a senior majoring in Photojournalism and Fine Art Photography. She works for her University’s paper, The Daily Collegian, as the Photo Editor. She also works as a freelance photographer for Penn State University where she has done numerous events ranging from charity events, magazine covers, portraits of the president, senior vice-president etc. This past summer she covered both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions for the McClatchy newspaper company. Antonella will be traveling to Rio de Janeiro in September to provide coverage of the Paralympic Games for the Associated Press. Follow her on twitter @antonellacres and her instagram @antonellac_photography.