Henry Bushnell

Henry Bushnell is a senior writer at The Athletic covering soccer.

 

He previously covered the sport, and a wide variety of others, for Yahoo Sports. He spent four years as a features writer, pursuing enterprise stories across a variety of sports and subjects, and even deputizing as a COVID-19 reporter. He then moved back to the soccer beat in 2022. He has covered two World Cups and three Olympics on-site, plus more from home.

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Henry originally joined Yahoo Sports as a part-time college basketball writer in December 2016 after completing internships at Yahoo and Sports Illustrated.

 

He graduated from Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism and minored in psychology, in 2017. While in school, he spent 18 months as co-editor-in-chief of Inside NU.

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A Philadelphia native, he graduated from Germantown Friends School in 2013. He now lives in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington, D.C.