When she left sports, she wrote columns for the Style section, the Op-Ed pages and the Metro section. Her newspaper work spans 25 years, the last 22 in San Francisco. She has been awarded the Fabulous Feminist Award by the San Francisco chapter of the National Organization for Women and was named A Woman Who Could Be President by the San Francisco League of Women Voters. Her sports columns and features earned 13 Associated Press Sports Editors Awards, the National Headliner Award and the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Journalism Award, among other honors. She covered every major sporting event from the Super Bowl and the World Series to the Olympics and championship fights. Joan was a pioneer in sports journalism, becoming one of the first female sports columnists in the country. The Water Giver: The Story of a Mother, a Son and Their Second Chance, was published in September 2009. Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty, was a New York Times bestseller.
Her latest release Intangibles: Unlocking the Science and Soul of Team Chemistry, answers some of the most intriguing questions about performance and human relationships: Is team chemistry real? If so, what exactly is it? How does it affect output? How is it cultivated?
Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and author.
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