Jennifer Sheppard

Professor Jennifer “Shepp” Sheppard is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Sports Media and Communication at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She started riding dirt bikes at the age of 4 and writing about her adventures soon after that. Growing up racing, she filled diaries through grade school, cut her teeth on the yearbook staff and raced her way up the amateur ranks (in between broken bones.) Her race reports “What’s Hot, What’s Not” were picked up by the league’s magazine and the writ…