Tamryn Spruill is an author and freelance journalist covering women’s basketball, with issues of gender, race and sexuality central to her reporting. She has followed the WNBA since its 1997 inception, and she is writing a book about its exciting history through the lens of the passionate, persevering and powerful women who make the league up: COURT QUEENS: The Story of the WNBA's Power, Passion and Perseverance On and Off the Court (forthcoming from ABRAMS Books).
She is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2020 Southern California Journalism Award for Best Sports Commentary for "Critical Assist" (The Red Bulletin): a historically contextualized feature on WNBA guards Natasha Cloud and Renee Montgomery, who opted out of the 2020 season to pursue social justice work in the aftermath of the police killings of African Americans George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and fight voter suppression in their respective WNBA cities of Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA.
Spruill’s bylines include Harper’s BAZAAR, The New York Times, SLAM, ZORA, Teen Vogue, The Athletic and Swish Appeal, where she served as editor-in-chief from 2018, when hired as the first woman to hold that position, and 2021, when she stepped down to finish her book.
Spruill has appeared in interviews as an expert source for NPR’s All Things Considered, Fox Sports’ First Sports in the Morning, The Julie DiCaro Show on 670 The Score and Bleacher Report.
She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and Journalism (University of South Carolina) and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Goddard College).
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She is the winner of the LA Press Club's 2020 Southern California Journalism Award for Best Sports Commentary for "Critical Assist" (The Red Bulletin): a historically contextualized feature on WNBA guards Natasha Cloud and Renee Montgomery, who opted out of the 2020 season to pursue social justice work in the aftermath of the police killings of African Americans George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and fight voter suppression in their respective WNBA cities of Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA.
Spruill’s bylines include Harper’s BAZAAR, The New York Times, SLAM, ZORA, Teen Vogue, The Athletic and Swish Appeal, where she served as editor-in-chief from 2018, when hired as the first woman to hold that position, and 2021, when she stepped down to finish her book.
Spruill has appeared in interviews as an expert source for NPR’s All Things Considered, Fox Sports’ First Sports in the Morning, The Julie DiCaro Show on 670 The Score and Bleacher Report.
She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and Journalism (University of South Carolina) and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Goddard College).
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