MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – Madison is experiencing a boom in professional sports teams.
The city said in April that it would host a League One Volleyball team in 2024. The owners of Forward Madison announced on Tuesday that they had also acquired the rights to a professional women’s soccer team making the state’s capital on the fast track to becoming a professional sports city.
Satya Rhodes-Conway, the mayor of Madison, expressed her excitement about the way the news of the League One Volleyball team and the USL Super League soccer team complement one another.
“It feels like women’s sports are having a moment in Madison, and I’m absolutely here for it,” she said.
Phoenix and Washington, D.C. will both have teams in the USL Super League when it debuts in 2024. Then, five other markets, including Madison, will soon be included.
“I would 100% say that Madison is a sports hub,” Destination Madison CEO Ellie Westman Chin stated. “This city is on fire, and there’s so much going on, and that’s what will continue to expand that experience for our visitors and residents when that women’s soccer team comes to town.”
She said that the team’s games will increase people coming to Madison, which will benefit the local economy and fill the hotels along E. Washington Ave., which are close to Breese Stevens Field.
Breese Stevens Field needs to be upgraded before the professional women’s soccer club can begin competition, according to those in charge of the team. If everything goes as planned, the first game might happen in 2025.
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