Suzy Wrack
“Diverse voices are needed in every arena, both to be representative and to serve a wider audience. Having women in podcasting is vital if it wants to be a forward thinking and diverse space.”
Suzy Wrack
Suzanne is a women’s football writer and podcast host for the Guardian. She previously worked on the sports desk as a layout sub editor. She has worked as a Senior Broadcast Journalist for BBC Sport, a digital designer for The Sunday Times, and page artist for Trinity Mirror's The New Day.
She was highly commended in the Media Initiative of the Year category at the 2018 Women’s Sport Trust ‘Be A Game Changer’ awards, shortlisted for the Football Supporters Association writer of the year in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, shortlisted for sports journalist of the year at the British Press Awards in 2019 and 2022, was shortlisted for sports journalist of the year at the London Press Club awards in 2023 and was shortlisted for football journalist of the year at Sports Journalist Association awards and was the winner of the ‘writing - best colour’ category at the AIPS awards, all in 2019. She won the inaugural Women’s Sport Journalist award at the Sports Journalist Association awards in 2024. She is on the expert panel which helps determine the Women’s Super League player of the month and is on the panel for the Women’s Super League Hall of Fame.
As an author, Suzy has written several books. Her first book, a social and political history of women’s football, ‘A Woman’s Game - The rise, fall and rise again of women’s football’ was published in June 2022 and won the inaugural Vikki Orvice Award for New Women's Sports Writing at the Sports Book Awards 2023. She co-wrote England captain Leah Williamson's non-fiction children's book 'You Have the Power', which was published in March 2023. A written and illustrated guide to 50 great sportswomen titled ‘Strong Women’ was published in October 2023. She has recently worked on a book My Beautiful Sisters with Khalida Popal, one of the founders of the Afghanistan Women's National Team, which was published in June this year.
Suzy is speaking on the Sports Podcasting Panel alongside Simone Stewart, Viviane Favery Costa and Isabel Sachs.