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Maggie Mertens

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Freelance | Writing about gender, culture, bodies, health, sport, etc. for @theAtlantic @npr @SInow | Author @algonquinbooks | Half of @Gilmore_Women | She/her
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Maggie Mertens is a writer and journalist located in Seattle, WA. Her recent work focuses on women’s and millennial issues, especially related to the economy and the job market in our post-Recession world. Her essays and reporting have appeared in TheAtlantic.com, Deadspin, VICE, The Cut, The Awl, Glamour, Fast Company, NPR, Pacific Standard, Refinery29, and Creative Nonfiction, among others.

Mertens earned a B.A. in English Literature and Italian Studies from Smith College, and an M.F.A. in Cr…

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‘Like cutting the head off a hydra’: how Mary Cain exposed Nike’s disgraced coaching team

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By Maggie Mertens Verified
| Yahoo Sports Verified
Mary Cain.Photograph: Carter Christman default “As someone who has lost touch with reality, I like to hold a firm grasp on it now,” Mary Cain says while we walk through a palm-tree spotted campus in California. She’s telling me why she insisted she write her own memoir, This is Not About Running, without ceding the narrative to a ghostwriter, as happens with many athletes.
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Mexico’s Diana Flores Is the Face of Flag Football You Need to Know

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By Maggie Mertens Verified
| Sports Illustrated Verified
You might remember Diana Flores from her popular commercial that aired during Super Bowl  LVII in 2023. As she ran through a football stadium and then an entire city, the quarterback and captain of the Mexican national flag football team evaded the women and men trying to grab her flags. Flores leaped and spinned and jumped, her hips jutting side to side to escape each opponent, until finally she was joined on the street by a crew of other women football players.
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Mexico’s Diana Flores Is the Face of Flag Football You Need to Know

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By Maggie Mertens Verified
| WCMH-TV (Columbus, OH) Verified
You might remember Diana Flores from her popular commercial that aired during Super Bowl  LVII in 2023. As she ran through a football stadium and then an entire city, the quarterback and captain of the Mexican national flag football team evaded the women and men trying to grab her flags. Flores leaped and spinned and jumped, her hips jutting side to side to escape each opponent, until finally she was joined on the street by a crew of other women football players.
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