Rachel Bachman
Rachel Bachman is a senior sports reporter in The Wall Street Journal's New York office. She focuses on the Olympics, college sports and the business and finance of women’s sports. Rachel has covered every Summer and Winter Olympic Games since 2010, along with men’s and women’s Final Fours, the College Football Playoff, Women’s World Cup, World Athletics Championships, New York City Marathon and U.S. Olympic track and field trials. She has covered the U.S. women’s soccer team’s equal-pay lawsuit, detailed how girls helped revive wrestling, revealed a 40-year college basketball hoax and explained the effects of the NCAA’s media and sponsorship contracts and withholding of the "March Madness" brand on the women’s basketball tournament. Previously, Rachel covered college basketball and football, sports trends and the NBA for the (Portland) Oregonian. She grew up in Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Michigan, where she wrote for the Michigan Daily.
