• Cultivate and maintain strong sources to break, confirm and advance national news. • React quickly and eagerly in the moment to advance and elevate trending stories in the sport by providing additional reporting as well as commentary and analysis. • Generate creative, high-level stories about the growing and complex business of women’s basketball. • Contribute on multiple platforms, including podcasts, video and social media. • Write with clarity and consistently deliver clean, skilled stories, both on deadline and on features and enterprise. • Understand the sports’ advanced metrics and how to apply them to our coverage. • Collaborate effectively with colleagues as part of a beat team, as well as others throughout our large newsroom in numerous departments. • Maintain productivity while balancing long- and short-term stories with an aim of having a lively mix of reporting expected of a top journalist covering the sport. • Ability and willingness to shoot video on location as part of event coverage and important stories. • Appear on The Athletic’s shows and series network to offer analysis and insight around biggest stories on your beat.