Alyssa Roenigk sports • adventure • travel • journalist

Inside Travis Pastrana’s and Jimmie Johnson’s quest to qualify for the 2023 Daytona 500. — ESPN.com, Feb. 18, 2023

Remembering a legend. — ESPN.com, Jan. 4, 2023

For one of my all-time favorite stories, I flew to Pittsburgh with my mom, Joy, to explore why a recent poll showed the Pittsburgh Steelers, our hometown team, had more women fans than any other franchise in sports. — ESPN.com, Dec. 4, 2013

When a flood destroyed Loretta Lynn’s Waverly, Tenn., ranch, the motocross community rallied to save it — and the legacy they built together. – ESPN, August 2022

Coco Gauff is ready for greatness, on her own terms. – ESPN Cover Story, August 2022

Months after her shocking performance at the Beijing Olympics, alpine skiing superstar Mikaela Shiffrin still can’t explain what happened. Instead, she’s just doing the next right thing. – ESPN, May 2022

For decades, gymnasts did not believe they had agency over their bodies and decision-making. They did not believe they had voices. By choosing to protect her physical and mental health at the Tokyo Games, Biles changed that narrative and changed the game once again. – ESPN, August 2021  

After a virus left Wright bedridden for a year in 2018, the two-time world surfing champion fought her way back to life and to her sport and then began to fight for equality in surfing. Since returning to the World Surf Tour, Wright has made history in and out of the water. – ESPN, March 2021

Ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics, the young U.S. snowboard star found dropping into the halfpipe far less daunting than figuring out how to be American and Korean in Pyeongchang. ESPN The Magazine, January 2018

The unstoppable Sam Kerr is ready to take the Matildas to the finals of the World Cup. ESPN The Magazine, June 14, 2019