Vikki Orvice

Vikki Orvice (8 November 1962 – 6 February 2019) was a British sports journalist who was the first female football reporter on the staff of a British tabloid newspaper.

Journalism career Orvice started her career as an apprentice at the Wakefield Express. After two years, she moved to the Western Daily Press, where she worked alongside doing freelance shifts for the Daily Mail and The Observer. She eventually moved to the Daily Mail full-time, working as a general news reporter, covering sport in her spare time.

Orvice was a founding board member of Women in Football, a network of women working in football. She was also vice-chair of the Football Writers' Association and the first female chair of the British Athletics Writers' Association. In November 2019, Orvice was posthumously awarded the President's Award by World Athletics. The British Athletics Writers' Association has renamed its annual Inspiration Award the Vikki Orvice Inspiration Award.