Avery Zimmerman

Avery Zimmerman works on several of The Action Network's teams, including news, predictive analytics and editorial. He is the head of the site's tennis vertical and assists with content in soccer and data-based analysis. Prior to joining Action in 2021, Zimmerman worked for InsideNU and WildcatReport throughout his time at Northwestern University.

While Zimmerman is recently out of college, he has been studying the progression of legal sports betting throughout high school and college, and he has worked on developing model-based projections for individual sports. As an editor at InsideNU, he developed the site's original college football betting series and has assisted other publications in building their sports betting coverage. Zimmerman has experience analyzing tennis, soccer, golf and college football, and he is looking to expand his expertise even further with the help of Action's predictive analytics team.

Zimmerman graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2022.