{"id":1326,"date":"2023-09-25T15:29:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T15:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?page_id=1326"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:26:58","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?page_id=1326","title":{"rendered":"Blind Sports NS in the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>NOTE: Page under construction<\/h3>\n<h4>August, 2025 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xfw0Hu7bmQM\">Team Canada Goalball: Building Success One Throw at a Time | Para Sport Nation<\/a><\/h4>\n<div id=\"top-row\" class=\"style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\">\n<h4 id=\"owner\" class=\"item style-scope ytd-watch-metadata\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">August, 2025 &#8211; <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.6862769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.6862769&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1755278846076000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2hcihC72Pm6Si7ykiSGvHp\">Nova Scotia teen youngest to make Canada&#8217;s goalball team | CBC.ca<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"title\">\n<h4 class=\"title-text\">May, 2025 &#8211; Stories featuring a mother &amp; son, both Team Canada &amp; Nova Scotia members, Alexis &amp; Harry Nickerson: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthing.ca\/eye-health\/how-i-care-for-vision-loss-a-mother-and-sons-journey-beyond-limitations\">How I care for vision loss: A mother and son&#8217;s journey beyond limitations<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"title-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-37-mainstreet-ns\/clip\/16152164-alexis-and-harry-nickerson-mother-son-experiencing-sight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/listen\/live-radio\/1-37-mainstreet-ns\/clip\/16152164-alexis-and-harry-nickerson-mother-son-experiencing-sight&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1750268746707000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2nK20lYjb-v5-VLGZAplkJ\">Alexis &amp; Harry Nickerson, a mother and son, both experiencing sight loss and determined to do what they love | Mainstreet NS | On Demand | CBC Listen<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"title-text\">May, 2025 &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DenjAV9F6Dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DDenjAV9F6Dc&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1750270609724000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2Oo_zFg9bx_L33QgjpJkGH\">2025 Senior Goalball National Championship Recap | Para Sport Nation<\/a> &#8211; This episode of Parasport Nation features a recap of 2025 Senior National Goalball Championships in Saskatoon, including interviews with Nova Scotia players Jennie Bovard &amp; Peter Parsons.<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<h4>February, 2025 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/previous.ncra.ca\/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=299931\">Listen to Goalball athlete &amp; Blind Sports NS Chair,\u00a0 Peter Parsons, on the Handi Link podcast (interview at 7 minute mark)<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>August, 2024 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/previewing-goalball-at-the-games\/id1235751531?i=1000665338736\">listen: Previewing Goalball at the 2024 Paralympic Games with Peter Parsons on AMI&#8217;s Now with Dave Brown.\u00a0<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>July, 2024 &#8211; Sport Nova Scotia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportnovascotia.ca\/ns-mens-goalball-team-wins-nationals\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR15jWyBDFs4NhvvY-XpfzGcsYoEdufDzqCRMj0-bEV9lhX3_n-764AyWjs_aem_HCatt0l2-wkzJ5rwxrOYiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NS men\u2019s Goalball team wins nationals<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>October, 2023 &#8211; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantic.ctvnews.ca\/video?clipId=2796834\">CTV News Atlantic coverage of 7th Nova Scotia Open Goalball Tournament<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>September, 2023 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/sportnovascotia.ca\/n-s-punching-above-its-weight-in-goalball\/#:~:text=Despite%20the%20challenges%2C%20Parsons%20said,pretty%20big%20favourites%20to%20win.%E2%80%9D\">NS Punching Above its Weight in Goalball<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: Page under construction August, 2025 &#8211; Team Canada Goalball: Building Success One Throw at a Time | Para Sport Nation August, 2025 &#8211; Nova Scotia teen youngest to make Canada&#8217;s goalball team | CBC.ca May, 2025 &#8211; Stories featuring a mother &amp; son, both Team Canada &amp; Nova Scotia members, Alexis &amp; Harry Nickerson: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/?page_id=1326\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blind Sports NS in the Media<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1686,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1326\/revisions\/1686"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blindsportsnovascotia.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}