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Accomplishments

• Sports writer for Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun Times
• Worked for PBS with Bill Kurtis, fighting for greater coverage of women in sports
• Wrote best-selling sports biography of Brian Piccolo, "A Short Season"
• Her book was later made into a TV movie, "Brian's Song"
• First woman TV reporter allowed in men's locker rooms
• First woman to report live from the Super Bowl
• Has been awarded several Emmy Awards for her reporting

Memories

Except for Mr. Andrus (who said we girls didn't have to study, that we'd all get automatic "B's," because girls had had no business taking algebra in the first place). I know I had a good education at RUHS. Helen Sinsabaugh was most inspirational, planting the seed that grew into a journalism career many years after graduation. But what, or rather, who, I cherish most are the "girl friends," girls with the promise, now fulfilled, of leading courageous fruitful lives with grace — among them Edna Flores, Valeria Williams, Hilary Money. It was much easier to be an adolescent then. We were well nurtured — and lucky.