BOUNCE: The Rise of Women's Professional Sports

With all of the talk about the WNBA and the WPBL, team BOUNCE put together a live event at KALW's studio event space. The gathering included station reporters, former Sacramento Monarchs executive Andrea Lepore, and a live audience to discuss the past and present. 

From college scholarships to Olympic dreams, girls flag football is creating opportunities that didn’t exist a few years ago. In Sacramento, Joslyn Cetina and Leyona Wilson, are chasing big goals with Elevate founder and trainer Vince Carter, whose program is helping shape the future of the game.

It's the first episode of BOUNCE Season 3! We look at how the launch of the Women’s Professional Baseball League means that for the first time in decades, girls have a chance to go pro.

We are bringing back Bounce for a third season, and expanding it to cover the expansion of women's professional sports. The podcast will track the 2nd half of the Golden State Valkyries' 2nd season and also cover the emerging football, baseball, and hockey leagues. Women's professional sports is here, and we're here for it! 

The Golden State Valkyries created a movement bigger than themselves. Today, we’ll hear about the "Violet Wave" on the Finale of Bounce: The Valkyries' 1st Season in the Bay. 

The WPBA is a pro developmental league in the East Bay with big ambitions and real impact. It’s recognized by FIBA — rare for a U.S. women’s league outside the WNBA — and it’s becoming a place where players continue their careers, get seen by scouts, and find community.

What if your mom played basketball from high school, to college, and then for the WNBA. And what if as their kid, basketball wasn’t really your thing? That is reporter Audy McAfee’s story. She dug into her mother’s basketball history and found out what an O.G. baller she was. 

Today's episode of BOUNCE is all about the people behind the mic: sports announcers bringing listeners right into the thick of the game.

For the first time since their team folded in 1981, the first professional women’s basketball team in San Francisco reunites in the Bay Area.

The Valkyries are playing better than projected. But even the best professional athletes are finding that the real money lies in tapping into the big business of commercial endorsements. Today, that also means developing a personal brand, and lots of online engagement.