Writing | Julie Kliegman

Writing

Julie Kliegman’s writing has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, Bookforum, Slate, The Ringer, Defector, Texas Monthly, Vulture, BuzzFeed News, and The Verge.

Sports features

Hailey Davidson loves golf, and golf wants to get rid of her Defector, 2024
How athletes decide to talk (or not talk) about mental health Outside, 2024
He was the 31st pick in the draft and a millionaire. Two years later, he walked. Sports Illustrated, 2023
Nickelodeon knows cartoons. Now it knows football and golf, too. Sports Illustrated, 2023
Why are some states targeting trans boys and men with sports bans? Sports Illustrated, 2022
What athletes get from ayahuasca, mushrooms and ecstasy Sports Illustrated, 2022
‘Mentally, that's a whole ’nother ballgame’: The pandemic and athletes’ minds Sports Illustrated, 2020
Can this Alaskan bring Olympic gold back to Texas? Texas Monthly, 2024
Here’s how a roller derby team is fighting a trans sports ban in their county Them, 2024
Lolo Jones’s eternal reinvention Sports Illustrated, 2021
How come the NCAA hasn’t taken action against anti-trans sports laws? Sports Illustrated, 2021
Idaho banned trans women from women’s sports. She’s fighting back. Sports Illustrated, 2020
Nothing and everything has changed for the USWNT The Ringer, 2019
College athletes are only starting to get access to the mental health care they need The Ringer, 2017

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