Masthead
Founder/Editor-in-Chief: Cheryl Coward
Editor-at-Large/Olympics Coverage: Lee Michaelson
Contributing Writers/Editors
- Charles Hallman
- Amber Dodd
- Michael Roberson
- Lee Michaelson
- James Dunning
Photographers
- Baranduin Briggs
- Lee Michaelson
History
Hoopfeed.com is the brainchild of writer and artistĀ Cheryl Coward. Contributors to the site include writers and photographers from around the country.
Cheryl has followed women’s basketball for over 30 years. She has also been a writer and artist for three decades. Her publication credits include stories in many publications, including theĀ Village Voice, theĀ Chicago Tribune,Ā EssenceĀ magazine,Ā Black EnterpriseĀ magazine,Ā Dave Campbell’s Texas Basketball, and many others. She started her career as a reporter for the Washington Blade in Washington, D.C., in the early 1990s. Shortly after, she became the Washington, D.C. correspondent for theĀ AdvocateĀ magazine. As a young reporter in Washington, D.C., she was the only member of the press to get an actual interview with Anita Hill’s “basketball-playing roommate” while covering the sensational media circus of the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
She later became the Chief of Research at theĀ Village Voice. While at theĀ Voice, she frequently had long conversations about women’s basketball with reporterĀ Alisa Solomon, who wrote a story or two due to those conversations. She also witnessed the first-ever game of the New York Liberty at Madison Square Garden. She left theĀ VoiceĀ for a sabbatical to finish her first novel,Ā Sugarhill (2001) and ended up in Seattle, where she was a frequent attendee at ABL Seattle ReignĀ games.
In 2007, while covering the women’s basketball SEC championships for theĀ Florida StarĀ newspaper, she began to think about creating a web-based publication about the sport and subsequently registered and created Hoopfeed.com. She is a member of theĀ National Association of Black Journalists, theĀ United States Basketball Writers Association, the Professional Basketball Writers Association, and the Association for Women in Sports Media.
