Susan Reimer has been a columnist for The Sun since July 1993 when, after 14 years covering sports, she was asked to write about life as a wife and the working mother of school-aged children. Her column appears on Sundays and Tuesdays.
A collection of work, "Motherhood is a Contact Sport," was published in May, 1998.
Susan was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pa., and attended Ohio University, where she earned a degree in journalism.
After working at the Associated Press wire service, the Pittsburgh Press and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and spending six months traveling around the country, Susan was hired by The Sun in 1979 as one of the first full-time women sportswriters in the country.
In that capacity, she covered the range of major sporting events — from the Triple Crown of horse racing to the America’s Cup of yachting. She was reporting on the National Football League Colts when they departed for Indianapolis in 1984, just a month after her first child was born.
When her daughter arrived in 1986, Susan returned to work part-time and quit traveling. She became an editor at The Sun and helped the paper co-ordinate coverage of major events, including the Olympics.
Susan was winner in 2003 of the prestigious National Headliner Award for her column. Susan has also won the Vivian Castleberry Award for her writing about the lives of women and the MD-DC Press Association and the A. D. Emmart Memorial Prize for writing in the humanities for a story about the nature of forgiveness.
She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, a sportswriter for USA Today, and her two children: Joseph, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps, and Jessica, a graduate of Annapolis High School who attends Penn State University.
The only noteworthy accomplishment is that her son is a Marine.
“Susan Reimer has been a columnist for The Sun since July 1993 when, after 14 years covering sports, she was asked to write about life as a wife and the working mother of school-aged children. Her column appears on Sundays and Tuesdays.”
Sounds like she got her columnist job “to woo women...” OK, but if the Palin pick was the same thing (which it’s not) it’s a cynical, failed strategy according to her. Same as Sally Quinn, who said her failure as a TV reporter meant Sarah Palin shouldn’t be VP.
I really question the wisdom of that kind of column. when you put a reporter’s personality (which is alarmist to begin with) together with wife-and-mother issues, you’ve got a recipe for an all-out whinefest - kind of like Michelle Obama.