The NWSL rides a 'rocket ship' of interest in women's sports to a record-setting year
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The NWSL rides a 'rocket ship' of interest in women's sports to a record-setting year

NPR  

The NWSL rides a 'rocket ship' of interest in women's sports to a record-setting year toggle caption Timothy Nwachukwu/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The stands at Audi Field were packed. In all, 19,215 people were in attendance at last Sunday's National Women's Soccer League quarterfinal playoff match between the Spirit and Bay FC, which the Spirit won 2-1 in extra time — all of them part of a historic wave of interest in women's sports. There are those who Clark calls "generalists" — people who follow their regional sports teams but had never before given women's soccer a shot. For the two men, both longtime sports fans — Glasser for baseball and the NFL, and Saunders for the English Premier League team Arsenal — Sunday's game was their first-ever women's soccer match.

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L.A. NWSL team founders eager to support women's soccer
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L.A. NWSL team founders eager to support women's soccer

LA Times  

Julie Foudy, a former U.S. Women’s National Team soccer player and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, is one of several founding investors in Los Angeles’ NWSL expansion franchise. Twenty-three-time tennis Grand Slam singles champion Serena Williams, her husband and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, and their 2-year-old daughter Olympia, who makes a cameo appearance toddling through the team’s promotional video. “That …

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