Elizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald.       She was nominated for the 2020 Dan Jenkins Medal for Best Sportswriting Award for “Whatever Happened to Villanova Basketball Star Shelly Pennefather? ‘So I Made This Deal with God,’” a piece published by ESPN.com on August 2, 2019.          Give it a read!  espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/27297631/happened-villanova-basketball-star-shelly-pennefather-made-deal-god          #elizabethmerrill #sportswriting #danjenkins #moodycollegeofcommunication