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Patricia Babcock McGraw

Staff Writer
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Patricia Babcock McGraw grew up playing sports and wanted to stay connected to that world once her playing days were over. While playing basketball at Northwestern in the early 1990s, she majored in journalism at the Medill School of Journalism with the hope of one day writing about sports.

In 1997, she was hired as a sports writer and columnist by the Daily Herald.

Babcock McGraw covers high school sports as well as women's sports for the Daily Herald. Her weekly Women's Watch column, which focuses on college and professional women's sports, is unparalleled in the United States.

In 2002, Babcock McGraw won a Peter Lisagor Award for a series on the 30th anniversary of Title IX. For years, she has been a voter for The Associated Press women's college basketball Top 25 weekly poll, the John Wooden Award for the best player in women's college basketball and the Nancy Lieberman Award for the best point guard in women's college basketball.

Since 2007, she has extended her reach to television as a color analyst for women's college basketball games on the Big Ten Network and for Chicago Sky (WNBA) games on Comcast.

Prior to joining the Daily Herald, Babcock McGraw worked as a sports writer at Pioneer Press in the suburbs and at the Shreveport Times in Louisiana.

A native of Indiana, Babcock McGraw was named Indiana's Miss Basketball as a senior in high school at Culver Academy before earning all-Big Ten academic and athletic accolades at Northwestern.

Babcock McGraw lives in the north suburbs with her husband Mike, who covers the Chicago Bulls for the Daily Herald, and their two children.

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The bare truth: Lakes is a regional champ

May 26 2012 | 8:46 pm - In throwing the one-and-done monkey off its back, the Lakes baseball team got a hand. A bare hand. A ball that took a bad hop screamed towards Lakes first baseman Ryan Burnett on Saturday afternoon. He improvised and used his bare hand to field the...

Carmel tops Warren to fight another day

May 24 2012 | 11:12 pm - Carmel sophomore Quinten Sefcik came on in relief and gave up a 2-run homer to Warren in the seventh inning, but then he got three straight outs as the Corsairs held on for an 8-7 victory in Class 4A regional semifinal play.

Borucki's faith is rewarded by fate at Mundelein

May 24 2012 | 7:10 pm - Mundelein's Ryan Borucki, a versatile lefty who had a whopper of a growth spurt over the last 12 months and is now 6-foot-4, has been told by multiple scouting directors that he could be snapped up within the first five rounds of the Major League...

Meet the 2012 Chicago Sky

May 24 2012 | 5:27 pm - Meet the 2012 Chicago Sky as Patricia Babcock McGraw offers a capsule preview of the 11-player roster.

7 key storylines for Sky's 7th season

May 24 2012 | 6:45 pm - The Sky plays its home opener against the Indiana Fever on Friday at Allstate Arena in Rosemont. As the team's seventh season gets going, Patricia Babcock McGraw presents seven storylines to follow throughout the WNBA season.

Cool finish for Mundelein

May 17 2012 | 11:39 pm - Caught from behind and by surprise, Mundelein baseball coach Todd Parola grimaced when he was doused in celebration Thursday with ice-cold water from a big, orange Gatorade cooler.

Action aplenty among area teams

May 18 2012 | 4:46 pm - Women's Watch on a big weekend in Chicago women's sports that includes the Sky season opener, the NU lacrosse team vying for another trip to the Final Four and the Northwestern and DePaul softball teams starting their NCAA Tournament runs.

Groomed for greatness, Antioch's Gregory catches on

May 17 2012 | 11:02 am - Antioch baseball coach Paul Petty saw something special in Joe Gregory. A former catcher for the Sequoits himself, Petty to the time to refine Gregorys' game, and the resulting player is one of the best in the county.

Penicheiro has the right kind of mileage for Sky

May 11 2012 | 5:15 pm - The Sky opens the 2012 season next Friday in Washington against the Mystics, and the plan this season is to go old school this summer to turn over a new postseason leaf. And leading the way will be veteran point guard Ticha Penicheiro, who already...

Zeal for competing leads Wauconda senior to BYU

May 11 2012 | 1:53 pm - Wauconda's Jake Ziolkowski has distinguished himself as both a hard-working athlete and also as a generous, community-minded young man. Both traits will serve him well as he heads to BYU to play football next fall. Ziolkowski was one of just three...

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