Inductees

Mechelle Voepel has covered women’s basketball since 1984, when she began her journalism career at the University of Missouri, graduating from there with a degree in journalism in 1987. She joined ESPN.com in 1996 as a women’s college and pro basketball writer, and since has also covered additional college sports. She has covered both the Summer and Winter Olympics, the Women’s World Cup soccer tournament and several professional golf major tournaments. Her first job was in Jackson, TN, and she’s also worked as an editor and writer at newspapers in Columbia, MO, Newport News, VA, and Kansas City, MO.