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Mia Messina ’25 poses with her media credentials from the past four years.
PHOTOS: MIA MESSINA ’25/THE HAWK

A season recap

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor April 30, 2025

As a woman pursuing a career in the male-dominated world of sports journalism, I often feel isolated. With that isolation comes a feeling of vulnerability, and that’s when the imposter syndrome sets...

Sports media platforms for women ‘create a community and a sense of belonging’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor April 16, 2025

Lily Shimbashi grew up wanting to be the next Erin Andrews, currently a Fox Sports sideline reporter who has become one of the most popular women sportscasters in the U.S. After graduating from Brigham...

‘There were glass ceilings everywhere’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor April 9, 2025

Before she was the first woman journalist to cover a Major League Baseball beat, Claire Smith was a Penn State college student unsure of what she wanted to do.  During the nearly three years she was...

‘We’re made from our history’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor March 26, 2025

Kathy Garvin ’75 recalled a sign on a St. Joe’s campus bathroom with the letters “WO” taped in front of the word “men.” Garvin, who enrolled at St. Joe’s in 1971, one year after the university...

GRAPHIC: CARA HALLIGAN ’25/THE HAWK

Game changers

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor March 19, 2025

Last year, over Winter Break, I met up with Alex Coffey, the Philadelphia Phillies beat writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Coffey is my favorite writer, and has been for many years, so I was thrilled...

Field hockey head coach Hannah Prince offers encouragement to fifth-year Lily Santi during a game.
PHOTO: MIA MESSINA ’25/THE HAWK

‘It’s the same game’

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor January 29, 2025

Inequality in sports isn’t always reflected in something as large as pay disparity, a lack of media coverage or inadequate facilities and resources. Sometimes, it comes down to a single word: “women’s.” In...

Cindy Griffin ’91, MBA ’93 is entering her 24th season as the head coach for the Hawks. PHOTO COURTESY OF SJU ATHLETICS

Women’s Big 5 coverage lacking despite growing interest

Mia Messina ’25, Sports Editor October 23, 2024

Women’s basketball came to play last March and made history. For the first time ever, the women’s March Madness tournament drew more viewers to the televised games than the men’s tournament.  Caitlin...

Former Hawk sports editor Christy Selagy ’15 ’17 interviews Phil Martelli in 2016. PHOTO: CHRISTY SELAGY ’15 ’17

Evening the score: College women making strides in sports journalism

Mia Messina ’25 March 1, 2023

When Alex Hargrave ’20 took her spot among other members of the press at her first St. Joe’s men’s basketball game as sports editor of The Hawk, she immediately realized she was the only woman...

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