Ed Swift, now a senior writer, came to Sports Illustrated as a staff writer in 1978. Swift will contribute regular viewpoints to CNNSI.com. Although he’s covered a variety of sports, he is best known for his coverage of winter sports, which included the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team's “Miracle on Ice.” While earning his B.A. in English from Princeton University, Swift played varsity hockey from 1970 to '73 and was named captain in his last season. After graduation he went to work as a general assignment reporter for MTN News in Billings, Mont. He became the editor of Hockey Magazine in 1977, and worked there for one year before joining SI. His novel, Each Thief Passing By, was published in 1981. His second book, My Sergei, which Swift co-wrote with Ekaterina Gordeeva, sold over 500,000 copies in hardcover and was on the New York Times best-seller list for 22 weeks. His third book is entitled Eleven Seconds and was published in January, 1998 and was co-written with former Boston University hockey player Travis Roy, who was paralyzed during his first career collegiate game.
A native of Chicago, Swift now lives in Carlisle, MA with his wife, Sally, and their two sons.
Ed Swift, now a senior writer, came to Sports Illustrated as a staff writer in 1978. Swift will contribute regular viewpoints to CNNSI.com. Although he’s covered a variety of sports, he is best known for his coverage of winter sports, which included the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team's “Miracle on Ice.”
While earning his B.A. in English from Princeton University, Swift played varsity hockey from 1970 to '73 and was named captain in his last season. After graduation he went to work as a general assignment reporter for MTN News in Billings, Mont. He became the editor of Hockey Magazine in 1977, and worked there for one year before joining SI. His novel, Each Thief Passing By, was published in 1981. His second book, My Sergei, which Swift co-wrote with Ekaterina Gordeeva, sold over 500,000 copies in hardcover and was on the New York Times best-seller list for 22 weeks. His third book is entitled Eleven Seconds and was published in January, 1998 and was co-written with former Boston University hockey player Travis Roy, who was paralyzed during his first career collegiate game.
A native of Chicago, Swift now lives in Carlisle, Mass., with his wife, Sally, and their two sons.
E.M. Swift
