Jennifer Marie Frey (May 23, 1968 – March 26, 2016) was an American sportswriter. Frey grew up in western New York, the child of a professor and a schoolteacher. She attended and as a sophomore began interning for the Olean Times Herald. She went to college at Harvard University. In 1995, she joined the Washington Post, writing for the sports page, then the style section. Writing of Frey in 1997, David Carr called her "a certified prodigy who can do it all: X's and O's, empathetic profiles, and hard takedowns when the situation requires it."