Press Enterprise: California School for the Deaf, Riverside could get new sports complex

May 17, 2022

" After its football team’s historic, headline-making season, the California School for the Deaf, Riverside, may be getting upgraded athletic facilities. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised 2022-23 budget proposal, released Friday, May 13, includes an estimated $43.1 million to build a new athletics complex on campus.

....... In a Friday statement, state Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, called funding for the athletics complex “critical,” and said he was “profoundly moved” by the Cubs’ resilience. He shared their story with fellow state Sen. John Laird, D-Santa Cruz, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Education, and the governor’s office.

“These deaf student athletes were not hindered by their Deafhood as some may expect,” Roth said, “rather, it was their greatest asset in bulldozing their opponents and being victorious throughout the season. I then found out the conditions of the field they were playing on and I knew they deserved better.” "

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