Posts by Jenn Hatfield

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

What the Mystics lose, gain with Powers’ departure and Clark’s arrival

January 31, 2021

The two players have different strengths, but Clark fits nicely into a team with championship aspirations

How eight women’s basketball players are fighting for the legal rights of transgender athletes

January 20, 2021

The players are opposing an Idaho law that bars transgender women from women’s sports

Tara and Heidi VanDerveer have coaching records few can match

January 18, 2021

With over 1,400 wins and decades of coaching between them, the VanDerveers have helped women’s basketball flourish

How the Washington Mystics can win free agency in 2021

January 11, 2021

One eye on 2019, the other on the years ahead

Three ways that Ivy League women’s basketball will be different post-COVID-19

January 4, 2021

Some things will change out of necessity, and some pandemic innovations will stick

How Princeton head coach Carla Berube is approaching a season lost to COVID-19

December 26, 2020

Zooms, transfer news, and an endowment are some of what’s taken place

The Ivy Eight: Scouting the grad transfers

December 10, 2020

As of December 8, seven seniors and one junior had entered their names in the NCAA transfer portal

Five years on, Saint Joseph’s women’s basketball still hears Natasha Cloud’s voice

November 27, 2020

Cloud’s giving nature and outspokenness have lifted local communities as well as her alma mater

Tik, Tok: It’s time for a Cavinder comparison

November 24, 2020

Fresno State’s Haley and Hanna Cavinder are identical twins who produce nearly identical stats

Ivy League cancels all winter sports in 2020-21 due to COVID-19

November 13, 2020

The wait for Ivy League women’s basketball to return gets much longer