Who is Mechelle Voepel?
Michelle Voepel is a longtime ESPN reported born in Los Angeles and grew up up 40 miles north of St. Louis and is a lifelong Cardinals baseball fan still basking in amazement over the 2011 World Series title. Outside of sports, he is most interested in animal rescue and welfare.
Voepel covered his first women’s basketball game at the University of Missouri in 1984, and graduated from there with a degree in journalism in 1987.
His first job was in Jackson, Tenn., and he’s also worked as an editor and writer at newspapers in Columbia, Mo.; Newport News, Va.; and Kansas City, Mo.
M.A. Voepel joined ESPN.com in 1996 as a women’s college and pro basketball writer, and since has also covered additional college sports.
Voepel graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in journalism in 1987 and has become a mainstay at Women’s Final Fours across over two decades.
Longtime ESPN reporter Mechelle Voepel has announced a transition from female to male, and a new name: M.A. Voepel.