In The News
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Women’s football: Life after retirement
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BBC
Remember Brandi Chastain? She's joined forces with former teammates Leslie Osborne, Aly Wagner and Danielle Slaton to create a team, Bay FC, which will play in the US National Women’s Soccer League in 2024.
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Sixth Street CEO Promises Historic Investment in NWSL’s Bay FC
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Front Office Sports
Sixth Street, a global investment firm with about $65 billion in assets, will commit more capital to NWSL expansion club Bay FC “than probably any women’s professional sports team in the world,” said the firm’s CEO Alan Waxman.
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NWSL to the Bay: Alan Waxman on Bay FC’s journey to 2024
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The Athletic
Alan Waxman, co-chair of Bay FC and co-founder and CEO of Sixth Street, joins Full Time to discuss the ongoing NWSL expansion efforts in the Bay Area, following the new team’s branding reveal and CEO/general manager hires.
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Bay FC will select first in expansion draft as NWSL sets roster rules for new clubs
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Mercury News
Bay FC still does not know when the 2024 National Women’s Soccer League’s expansion draft will take place. But as of Wednesday, they know they’re on the clock.
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CEO of Bay FC says region’s excitement, soccer roots key for new women’s team
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ABC7 Bay Area
Next spring in 2024, the Bay Area's newest sports team will take the field. Women's soccer team Bay FC will be loaded with some of the world's best talent, fresh off this summer's World Cup.
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Women’s sports is experiencing an investment boom: ‘More than a moment’
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San Francisco Chronicle
Two years ago, a National Women’s Soccer League team cost around $2 million. Bay FC’s $53 million expansion fee and more than $100 million investment — mostly towards the construction of a practice facility — announced in April has been one of the developments that has turned the women’s sports investment conversation on its head.
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Lucy Rushton on becoming Bay FC’s first general manager: ‘This is an incredibly ambitious group’
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The Athletic
Lucy Rushton has always been a trailblazer of sorts. For five years, she served as Atlanta United’s head of technical recruitment and analysis, helping launch one of Major League Soccer’s most successful expansion sides. At D.C. United, she became just the second woman in history to serve as a general manager of an MLS club, and the first whose responsibilities included the technical aspects of the game.
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‘Barrier breaker’ Lucy Rushton joins Bay FC as general manager
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Just Women's Sports
Bay FC has its general manager in Lucy Rushton, the NWSL expansion club announced Thursday. The hire comes after Bay FC was announced as the NWSL’s 14th team in April. The team is set to begin play in 2024.
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New NWSL team Bay FC hires general manager with MLS experience, names CEO
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San Francisco Chronicle
The new Bay Area NWSL team, Bay FC, has hired Lucy Rushton as its first general manager, The Chronicle confirmed on Wednesday.
