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ABOUT TAREK FATTAL

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Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles), athletics have always come natural to me. From the age of four I cannot remember finishing a day of school and NOT having practice in the afternoon.

Soccer, basketball and flag football engulfed my youth and it was from the elementary age that I knew sports was going to be my life.

It's through sport that I found more than a passion for sports journalism, but a vehicle to share Christ's love. With the gift of basketball I've had the opportunity to travel on four mission trips where I used basketball to draw common ground with people that I would have never had the chance to meet otherwise.

Traveling to China, Japan (twice) and Accra, Ghana I played pick-up basketball with locals, ran basketball camps for children and even had the chance to compete in tournaments, which was a humbling and eye-opening
adventure - to say the least.

During my time in college, I was able to experience the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympics.

After playing college basketball at Master's College and Moorpark College, I spent two years in the Northeast where I received my
Bachelor's degree in Communications/Sports Journalism and a Minor in Religious Studies from Springfield College, also known as the Birthplace of Basketball.

I've been a staff writer covering sports for the Southern California News Group for five years.

I can be reached at tfattal@scng.com


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2012 London Olympics. Watching Team USA battle against Lithuania.
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USA Women's Soccer Gold Medal Match vs. Japan with friends Jrue and Lauren Holiday. (London 2012)
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Downtown Beijing with friends Pastor Dudley Rutherford and Billy Corcoran after hours of pick-up basketball.

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