Jennifer Frey

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1968|5|23}}

| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|3|26|1968|5|23}}

| death_place = Washington, D.C., U.S.

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| occupation = Journalist

| alma_mater = Harvard University

| genre = Sports

| children = 1

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| years_active = 1992–2016

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Jennifer Marie Frey (May 23, 1968 – March 26, 2016) was an American sportswriter.

Biography

Frey was born in St. Louis and grew up in Allegany, New York,{{Cite web|title=Jennifer Frey, former writer for The Washington Post, dies at 47|url=https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/article/20160329/NEWS/303299966|access-date=2021-07-18|website=Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise|language=en|archive-date=2021-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718164332/https://www.examiner-enterprise.com/article/20160329/NEWS/303299966|url-status=live}} the child of a professor and a schoolteacher. She attended Allegany Central School and as a sophomore began interning for the Olean Times Herald.{{Cite web|last=Pollock|first=Chuck|date=October 29, 2016|title=Deadspin's story on Frey's death sensitively written|url=https://www.oleantimesherald.com/sports/columnists/deadspin-s-story-on-frey-s-death-sensitively-written/article_0d6bdeaa-9d78-11e6-9db0-476a5953b79d.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718164233/https://www.oleantimesherald.com/sports/columnists/deadspin-s-story-on-frey-s-death-sensitively-written/article_0d6bdeaa-9d78-11e6-9db0-476a5953b79d.html|archive-date=2021-07-18|access-date=2020-12-07|website=Olean Times Herald|language=en}} She went to college at Harvard University.{{cite news|last=McKenna|first=Dave|title=The Writer Who Was Too Strong To Live|url=http://deadspin.com/the-writer-who-was-too-strong-to-live-1785661187|accessdate=28 October 2016|work=Deadspin|date=October 27, 2016|archive-date=23 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423181155/https://deadspin.com/the-writer-who-was-too-strong-to-live-1785661187|url-status=live}}

After college, Frey interned at the Detroit Free Press, then the Miami Herald. She went on to write for the Philadelphia Daily News and The New York Times. When interning in Detroit, she once approached baseballer Jack Morris for a clubhouse interview and he responded by stating: "I don't talk to women when I'm naked unless they're on top of me or I'm on top of them." The remark further attracted criticism when team president Bo Schembechler called it a predictable remark.

In 1995, she joined The Washington Post, writing for the sports page, then the style section.{{cite news |last=Langer |first=Emily |title=Jennifer Frey, former writer for The Post's Sports and Style pages, dies at 47 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jennifer-frey-former-writer-for-the-posts-sports-and-style-pages-dies-at-47/2016/03/28/d5f97b96-f500-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html |accessdate=28 October 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 28, 2016 |archive-date=18 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518083734/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/jennifer-frey-former-writer-for-the-posts-sports-and-style-pages-dies-at-47/2016/03/28/d5f97b96-f500-11e5-9804-537defcc3cf6_story.html |url-status=live}} Writing of Frey in 1997, David Carr called her "a certified prodigy who can do it all: X's and O's, empathetic profiles, and hard takedowns when the situation requires it."{{cite news|last=Carr|first=David|title=Blood Sport|url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13014088/blood-sport|accessdate=28 October 2016|work=Washington City Paper|date=October 17, 1997|archive-date=29 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171129153330/https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13014088/blood-sport|url-status=live}}

A single mother, Frey had one daughter. Frey was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Frey died of organ failure due to alcoholism on March 26, 2016, at the age of 47.