I first encountered Katie Strang on an episode of ESPN’s Hockey Today in 2015, when I was just beginning to cover hockey as an ECHL writer, and was looking for other women’s voices in sportswriting to listen to and learn from. Her voice on air immediately caught my attention -- here was an intelligent writer regularly weighing in on the NHL for an international audience, making insightful points and clicking right along with two hockey heavyweights, Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun. I was immediately hooked.
In far too short a time, ESPN recognized her skill and moved Strang to cover a sport with a larger readership, MLB.