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Hello!
I am award-nominated NCTJ multimedia sports journalist specialising in women's, North American, Paralympic and Olympic sport, with bylines in places like the Independent, the i, Sky Sports, Yahoo!, the Daily Mirror, Metro, the Radio Times, Eurosport and the Yorkshire Post. It seems people like what I do: I was a finalist for NCTJ Sports Journalist of the Year.
My favourite stories are the ones that transcend competition and create conversation. I'm proudest when someone says they've learned something new or thought about something in a different way after reading my work, or when an interviewee tells me I've asked them something they've never been asked before.
I'm relentlessly resourceful and insatiably curious, having travelled to 50+ countries and all seven continents. I'm a Canadian citizen who has also lived in the United States, so I come with a broad knowledge of athletes, sports, fanbases and culture on both sides of the Atlantic. The daughter of a copy editor, I have a both a knack for and genuine love of subbing honed from years of not wanting to disappoint my mother—as well as through writing and editing listings for the BBC.
My portfolio also includes video, radio and podcasting. I am the only woman on the editorial team for Bat Flips and Nerds, Europe's biggest baseball blog and podcast.
I'm digitally savvy, know my way around a CMS and SEO after working on digital nationals like Metro.co.uk and MailOnline, and I'm experienced in cultivating positive relationships even when working remotely.
Aspiring cyclists would do anything for a sit-down with Laura Kenny, Britain's most successful female Olympian in terms of most gold medals won. But when you are the four-time gold medallist herself, who do you turn to for advice? Enter Jessica Ennis-Hill.
Natasha Hunt had barely hopped off the plane from Tokyo when her focus turned to the Allianz Premier 15s. The Gloucester-Hartpury star was part of the Team GB Sevens squad who narrowly missed out on the Olympic podium, losing 21-12 to Fiji in the bronze medal match.
Exeter Chiefs' emphatic introduction to the Allianz Premier 15s has sparked more players dreaming of Devon, says head coach Susie Appleby. Chiefs finished sixth last year, their maiden top-flight season, tying fifth-placed Gloucester-Hartpury Women with 50 points apiece but missing out on the top half of the table on points difference.
By Rachel Steinberg Jess Thirlby believes netball's Sky Brown is somewhere out there - and now the sport has moved one step closer to making teens' Olympic dreams become reality. The Vitality Roses head coach was one of millions "hooked" by the 13-year-old Team GB sensation, who won the first-ever Olympic bronze in park skateboarding when the sport debuted in Tokyo last week.
Scott Quin is wary of the 'young pups' in Tokyo, but the affable Scot is ready to give it his best shot and land a gold medal. The Scotsman was ten and still sporting water wings when his family went on holiday to Great Yarmouth.
Official home of ParalympicsGB - the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team that competes at the Paralympic summer and winter Games, run by the British Paralympic Association. Meet the athletes, find out about paralympic sports and get the latest news from across the Movement.
They say you are what you eat, and Elliot Stewart consumed judo from the day he was born.
BY RACHEL STEINBERG - From badminton's Paralympic premiere to a critical quarter-finals test for GB's wheelchair basketball men, there's plenty of action to whet your Wednesday appetite. Here's just small sample of the full menu.
IN an alternate universe, Shauna Coxsey might have worked for the Royal Mail or found her vocation as a train conductor. Thankfully, the Olympian had rather unconventional taste in television for a three-year-old, so she was not watching Postman Pat or Thomas the Tank Engine on the day her life changed forever.
She is on the verge of realising her sporting dream by competing at an Olympic Games, but for boxer Lauren Price a special relationship with her grandfather Derek was the catalyst for her achievements. Whenever his granddaughter, Lauren, was feeling a bit mischievous, she would play with his long, curly hair until he fell asleep-he always did.