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NEW YORK — Jen Pawol was in her hotel room in Nashville, Tennessee, when she got the call she had awaited for a decade. She ...
Pawol will work the final three games of a five-game series between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves series at Atlanta’s ...
Jen Pawol, a 48-year-old from New Jersey, is set to make history as the first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball ( MLB) ...
Jen Pawol will become the first woman to umpire a regular-season MLB game after being assigned to the Braves-Marlins series ...
She is scheduled to work the bases for Saturday's doubleheader, then switch to behind the plate for Sunday's series finale.
Jen Pawol, who worked spring training games the past couple of years, is set to become the first woman to umpire an MLB game, ...
Pawol, 48, has served as a minor league umpire since 2016. She’s been a Triple-A umpire since 2023 and has worked major league spring-training games the past two years. In February 2024, she became ...
This story has been updated with new information Jen Pawol continues to make history as a female baseball umpire. Announced on Wednesday by Major League Baseball, Pawol is ...
MLB's move comes 28 years after the gender barrier for game officials was broken in the NBA, 10 years after it ended in the NFL and three years after the men's soccer World Cup employed a female ...