About

“Sports Girl: noun, girl who does NOT nag guys about their sports obsessions, but instead, often kicks their butt with her football picks; not to be confused with sports columnist Bill Simmons and his reference to Sports Gal, which is pretty much the exact opposite of a Sports Girl.”

…On Being a Sports Girl has been published since 2003. A lifelong sports fan, I grew up in Western New York during the Buffalo Bills’ four year Super Bowl run, and spent my formative years learning to love football (and running quarterbacks, but that’s another story) from my father, and getting my young heart broken repeatedly with the rest of the Buffalo-Rochester-Syracuse belt.

I have studied Creative Writing, Sports Information and Communication, and History. I earned several teenage writing honors in my middle and high school years (namely because because I think I was the only one not writing about teenage angst). In college, I received honors for my undergraduate thesis on the Metis people of Canada and their relation to the Quebec separatist movement.  I also have earned my Masters of Education, and currently work in the field of higher education administration. I also volunteer my time for professional sports leagues, teams and events throughout the Boston area.

In this blog, I cover football, Olympic sports, baseball, hockey (college and pro) and college basketball, along with what it is like to root for the underdog, adapting to the crazed New England sports scene, pining for the Western New York sports of my youth, and being a self-proclaimed girly girl who loves sports in a still male-dominated world of sports fandom.

In addition to …On Being a Sports Girl, I am on the lacrosse beat for the Examiner. I am also is a contributor to several other sports related websites. To see all of my recent writing credits, please see my Portfolio page.

Inquiries

I am always looking for new writing opportunities. If you would like to contact me , please email sportsgirlkat AT gmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter, at @sportsgirlkat.

A Brief Legal Note

My writing on this blog is my own; it is not representative of my full-time employer or any employee of the institution I work for. The opinions and analysis reflected on the domain “www.sportsgirlkat.com” are not shared by or representative of my employer.

In non-legal terms: there is a Kat on these pages, and there is a Kat that works full-time in another field.  The two are extremely different entities. This blog has nothing to do with my full-time position in education. But, that being said, I am pretty careful about what I write, and often have trusted advisors read through anything I believe may be controversial.