About Jackie MacMullan

By Sean Whooley

Jackie MacMullan was born in Manhasset, New York. MacMullan attended the University of New Hampshire, walked onto the women’s basketball team there as a freshman, and earned a scholarship the following year.

She even broke the scoring record for the team in her sophomore year. After graduating from New Hampshire, MacMullan interned with The Boston Globe in the news department, but made her way over to sports, and stayed on as a beat writer, eventually moving up to columnist and associate editor before plying her trade in several more places, like ESPN and Sports Illustrated.

In 2010, MacMullan received the Curt Gowdy Media Award from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, given to media members who made a “significant contribution to the game of basketball.” She was the first woman to win the award.

She has won several more honors, including the University of Massachusetts-Lowell’s For the Love of Sport Award. She was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame, honored by the New England Women’s Leadership Awards, named a New Fund Hall of Fame media recipient and was awarded a Distinguished Achievement Award from Tufts University. She is also in the University of New Hampshire’s Hall of Honor.