Micah Emmel-Duke

Megan Ryan

Ryan covered the Minnesota United FC during its first two years of existence. She previously spent two years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering Penn State football, Robert Morris basketball and high school sports. A Minnesota native and Minneapolis resident, she graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a major in journalism and minors in management and global studies. She has lived in Pennsylvania, Texas (covering the real Friday Night Lights for the Dallas Morning News) and New York (as a sports copy editor for a summer through the Dow Jones News Fund).

Chris Carr

A native of Richfield, Carr grew up reading the Star Tribune. Somewhere in his mom's basement is an old photo of Chris, sitting on 1970s shag carpet in some groovy brown corduroys, holding a Star Tribune that was bigger than he was. After graduating from Wisconsin-Eau Claire, He worked in Washington D.C., Milwaukee and Charlotte before jumping at an opportunity to work for the hometown newspaper. He will always only own male dogs, so he at least has a fighting chance at home against the three ladies (two little ones, one grown-up) of his life.

Colin Covert

Jerry Zgoda

Zgoda has been a Star Tribune sportswriter so long, his first beat directly out of college was covering the North Stars. In nearly 30 years, he has covered the NHL, the Wolves and the NBA twice (he missed the first Kevin Garnett era, which says something about his sense of timing), Gophers and NCAA athletics, the radio/TV beat, major-championship golf and outdoor recreation.

Katy Read

Read was formerly a staff writer for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, covering neighborhoods and news features. She has written for Salon, Real Simple, Working Mother, More, Minnesota Monthly, River Teeth, Brevity, Family Money, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Toronto Globe and Mail. Her writing has appeared in several anthologies including Fearless Confessions: A Writer's Guide to Memoir. Read has won a Minnesota State Arts Board grant and numerous literary awards, as well as four fellowships for journalists on aging. Most recently, she was a finalist for the 2018 AP-NORC Journalism Fellowship.