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Jenn Hatfield has been a contributor to The Next since December 2018 and is currently the site's managing editor, Washington Mystics beat reporter and Ivy League beat reporter. Her work has also appeared at FiveThirtyEight, Her Hoop Stats, FanSided, Power Plays and Princeton Alumni Weekly.

Players on the Minnesota Lynx circle-up and put their hands together in the middle before a send-off

ROUNDTABLE: ‘Too Many Lynx,’ starring Cheryl Reeve

February 23, 2022

The Next staff offers solutions for Minnesota’s roster crunch

In Bella Mauricio and Kyla Jones, Brown could have the Ivy League’s backcourt of the future

February 18, 2022

‘Nobody really knows a lot of us on Brown’

Even in defeat, Kathy Delaney-Smith’s legacy at Harvard shines through on KDS Day

February 15, 2022

‘Nothing compares to being a part of that literal empire that Kathy’s built’

Belgian national team captain Emma Meesseman (center) stands with her teammates before a game against Puerto Rico in the FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournament on Feb. 10, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo credit: Domenic Allegra)

‘I felt home’: Emma Meesseman returns to DC with the Belgian Cats

February 12, 2022

Emma Meesseman’s first two games in the Entertainment and Sports Arena since October 2019 were vintage performances

Elena Delle Donne’s Mystics feel ‘reborn’ as Mike Thibault goes big early in free agency

February 3, 2022

Let’s break down the massive week the Mystics just had, shall we?

Mystics notebook: Delle Donne to USA Basketball camp; Cloud debuts with Athletes Unlimited

January 28, 2022

Longtime WNBA assistant coach Shelley Patterson is heading to DC

Natasha Cloud (bottom right) smiles after being selected by DiJonai Carrington (top left) eighth overall in the inaugural Athletes Unlimited basketball draft on Jan. 23, 2022. (Screenshot from the YouTube.com livestream)

How Natasha Cloud is powering women’s basketball at home and abroad

January 26, 2022

From Jordan to Vegas, ‘it’s the rooms that we’ve been wanting to be in’

Ayoka Lee breaks Division I single-game scoring record

January 23, 2022

The Kansas State center and WNBA prospect scored an uber-efficient 61 points on Sunday

Before Harvard, Kathy Delaney-Smith dominated — and revolutionized — Massachusetts high school basketball

January 17, 2022

Inside Kathy Delaney-Smith’s ‘Green Machine’

International recruiting in the Ivy League is taking flight

December 30, 2021

Columbia’s Kitty Henderson, Penn’s Nikola Kovacikova lead 12 international players on Ancient Eight rosters this season