List of women sportswriters

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The following is a partial list of women sportswriters.

European

British

• Elizabeth Ammon, cricket writer for The Guardian , ^[1] The Daily Mirror , ^[2] The Independent , ^[3] and The Times ^[4]
• Margaret Hughes (1919–2005); first woman to cover The Ashes series of 1954–55 for the Sydney Daily Telegraph . ^[5]
• Martha Kelner (born 1990), sportswriter for the Daily Mail and The Guardian . ^{[6] [7]}
• Anna Kessel (born 1979), sportswriter and journalist for The Guardian , The Daily Telegraph , ^[8] and The Observer newspapers. ^[9]
• Vikki Orvice (1962–2019), football reporter for The Sun and subsequently the newspaper's athletics correspondent. ^{[10] [11]}
• Diana Rait Kerr (1918–2012), cricket writer and cricket historian ^[12]
• Netta Rheinberg (1911–2006), Women's Cricket magazine editor, sportswriter for Wisden, columnist for The Cricketer ^{[13] [14]}
• Alyson Rudd (born 1963), football reporter for The Times ^[15]
• Julie Welch (born 1948), first female sportswriter on Fleet Street, covering football ^[16]
• Suzanne Wrack, football writer for The Guardian and BBC Sport, covering women's football ^[17]

North American

American

• Kendra Andrews (born 1997), sportswriter for ESPN.com; previously for NBC Sports Bay Area and The Athletic ^[18]
• Malika Andrews (born 1995), sports journalist for ESPN.com; previously for Chicago Tribune , The New York Times , ^{[18] [19]}
• Nancy Armour, sportswriter for USA Today , previously for Associated Press; covered the Olympic Games. ^{[20] [21]}
• Judy Battista (born 1969), sportswriter covering American football for the Miami Herald , Newsday , The New York Times ^[22]
• Amalie Benjamin, sportswriter covering the National Hockey League; previously covered the Boston Red Sox for The Boston Globe ^[23]
• Christine Brennan (born 1958), columnist for USA Today ; previously covered American football and the Olympics for the Miami Herald and The Washington Post ^{[24] [25]}
• Liz Clarke, writer for The Washington Post , the Dallas Morning News , The Charlotte Observer , and USA Today ; covered NASCAR, tennis, college sports, the Washington Redskins/Commanders, and nine Olympic Games. ^[26]
• Alex Coffey (born 1993), beat reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer , covering the Philadelphia Phillies. Previously covered the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Storm for The Athletic . ^[27]
• Adeline Daley (1921–1984), sports columnist for the San Francisco Call-Bulletin and San Francisco Chronicle , covering baseball. ^[28]
• Katherine Dunn (1945–2016), novelist who covered boxing for the Willamette Week , The Oregonian , and The New York Times ^[29]
• Helene Elliott, sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times from 1989 to 2004, covering ice hockey; recipient of the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award. ^[30]
• Kate Fagan (born 1981), sportswriter for ESPN; previously worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer , covering the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.
• Cynthia Frelund
• Jennifer Frey
• Mary Garber
• Carrie Gerlach Cecil
• Jean Giambrone
• Toni Ginnetti ^[31]
• Jane Gross ^[32]
• Maggie Hathaway
• Robin Herman ^[33]
• Jemele Hill
• Margaret Holt ^[31]
• Sally Jenkins
• Christina Kahrl
• Michelle Kaufman
• Linda Kay ^[31]
• Ann Killion
• Mina Kimes
• Gwen Knapp
• Sarah Langs
• Jane Leavy ^[34]
• Marjorie Herrera Lewis
• Melissa Ludtke ^[35]
• Alison Lukan
• Jackie MacMullan ^[36]
• Myra MacPherson
• Juliet Macur
• Idah McGlone Gibson ^[37]
• Sadie Kneller Miller
• Marie Millikan
• Rachel Nichols
• Lisa Olson
• Maureen Orcutt
• Molly Qerim
• Marly Rivera
• Alanna Rizzo
• Selena Roberts
• Sherry Ross ^[38]
• Holly Rowe
• Jen Royle
• Lisa Nehus Saxon
• Nell Scovell
• Mary Shane
• Ramona Shelburne
• Susan Slusser ^[39]
• Claire Smith ^[40]
• Shelley Smith
• Sage Steele
• Karintha Styles
• Lou Swarz
• Jenny Taft
• Lillian Vickers-Smith ^[41]
• Maribel Vinson
• Lesley Visser
• Charean Williams
• Joan Wulff
• Ina Eloise Young
• Ellen Zavian

Canadian

• Cheryl Bernard
• Christie Blatchford
• Alexandrine Gibb
• Alison Gordon
• Kirstie McLellan Day
• Lorna Schultz Nicholson
• Jill Officer
• Mary Ormsby
• Laura Robinson

Oceanian

Australian

• Kath Commins ^[42]
• Pat Jarrett ^[43]
• Samantha Lane
• Cate McGregor
• Ruth Preddey ^[43]
• Lois Quarrell
• Marg Ralston
• Gwen Varley ^[43]

New Zealand

• Madeleine Chapman
• Ina Lamason
• Norma Williams

See also

• Nine for IX
• List of women writers
• Association for Women in Sports Media

References

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2. "Six deliveries from this week in County Cricket: Surrey's Lord's hoodoo continues". Daily Mirror . 19 April 2012.
3. "Elizabeth Ammon". Independent.co.uk .
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5. Steen, Rob (9 February 2005). "Margaret Hughes". Guardian. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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8. "Introducing Telegraph Women's Sport: A new era of unprecedented coverage". The Telegraph. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
9. "Women in Football - Women in Football co-founder Anna Kessel was awarded an MBE at Buckingham Palace". www.womeninfootball.co.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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12. "Diana Rait Kerr". The Times. 2013-01-01. ISSN   0140-0460 . Retrieved 2019-12-21.
13. "Player Profile: Netta Rheinberg". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
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16. Pollard, Lucy (2 May 1999). "The secret of my success: Julie Welch". The Independent on Sunday. London: Independent Print Limited. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
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18. Rucker, Jael (10 April 2023). "The Style Journey of Sports Journalist Sisters Malika and Kendra Andrews". Yahoo Entertainment.
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27. "Alex Coffey". Philadelphia Inquirer . Retrieved August 30, 2024.
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30. D'Agostino, Dennis (November 7, 2005). "Hockey to Induct Elliott Into Hall". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
31. Kane, Colleen (June 23, 2022). "Title IX at 50: Meet 20 influential women in Chicago sports media history". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved July 31, 2024.
32. Sandomir, Richard (November 10, 2022). "Jane Gross, Sportswriter Who Opened Locker Room Doors, Dies at 75". The New York Times.
33. Sandomir, Richard (February 3, 2022). "Robin Herman, Who Pried Open Doors in the N.H.L., Dies at 70". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved February 3, 2022.
34. Helfand, Zach (October 15, 2018). "What It Took to Write About Baseball as a Woman". The New Yorker .
35. Barker, Barbra (September 29, 2018). "Melissa Ludtke's lawsuit opened door for female sports journalists 40 years ago, but there still is a long way to go". newsday.com. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
36. "A month's worth of Jackie MacMullan". Globe.com. 2003. Archived from the original on June 8, 2003. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
37. Halper, Donna L. (2019). "'Our Lady Reporter': Introducing Some Women Baseball Writers, 1900–30". Society for American Baseball Research.
38. "Ultimate road trip". DailyNews.com. January 21, 2007. Archived from the original on January 26, 2007. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
39. "A Month's Worth of Susan Slusser". SFGate.com. 2004. Archived from the original on August 20, 2004.
40. Calcaterra, Craig (December 6, 2014). "Claire Smith becomes the first woman to win the BBWAA's Spink Award". NBCSports.com. Retrieved December 6, 2014.
41. Powers, Ormund. "In Early Days, Vickers-Smith Blazed a New Trail for Women in Journalism". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
42. Lawson, Valerie (February 15, 2003). "Most of the power, little of the glory". The Sydney Morning Herald .
43. "Women sportswriters were critical to the growth of cricket in the 1930s. How have we gone backwards?". The Conversation . February 4, 2022. Retrieved July 31, 2024.

Further reading

• Angell, Roger (April 9, 1979). "Sharing The Beat". The New Yorker .
• Leavy, Jane (April 12, 1997). "The Phallic Fallacy". Sports Illustrated .
• Ludtke, Melissa (October 11, 2017). "The fight for women sports reporters' access to locker rooms is history -- or is it?". ESPN .