Christine Brennan is an award-winning sports columnist for USA Today, an ABC News  and ESPN commentator, an NPR Morning Edition contributor and a best-selling author. Twice named one of the country’s top 10 sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors, she has covered 13 consecutive Olympic Games, summer and winter.
 
Brennan was the first woman sports writer at The Miami Herald in 1981 and the first woman to cover the Washington Redskins as a staff writer at The Washington Post in 1985.  She was the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media and started an internship-scholarship program that now honors nine female students annually.
 
She is the author of seven books. Her 2006 sports memoir, Best Seat in the House, was the first father-daughter memoir written by a sports writer.  Her 1996 best-seller, Inside Edge, was named one of the top 100 sports books of all-time by Sports Illustrated.
 
Brennan is a member of the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement. She received undergraduate and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern in 1980 and 1981, respectively. She also is a nationally known speaker.
 

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