However, they do not make up for the lack of equal-opportunity coverage in the mainstream media, local and national, including magazines like Sports Illustrated . Subjects like sports psychology and sociology largely ignore disability in textbooks and journals. Even women s studies and women s athletics can be faulted for poor coverage of disabled female athletes. Women who participate in sport and who are also disabled are rarely mentioned in these two arenas. Disabilities in the School Disabled females involved in college athletics are rarely honored or given much attention on their campus.
Exceptions do exist on a few college campuses around the country.
The University of Illinois at Champaign and Wright State University in Ohio both sponsor women s wheelchair basketball teams. Texas Woman s University has awarded one its highest honors to a disabled female athlete in the past. The coveted alumnae award was given to Sue Moucha, a Paralympic gold medalist. It was presented with the same recognition and importance to Moucha as it had been years earlier to Olympic gold medalist Louise Ritter. Instead, an athlete with cerebral palsy and an able-bodied athlete were bestowed with the same honor.