A New Year, A New Era in Women’s Sports

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Julie and Abby return to kick off the year with the biggest wins and headlines in women’s sports, from record-breaking winter performances and Olympic qualifiers to buzzy moments in college basketball. They celebrate athletes making history, dig into major storylines shaping the landscape, and share firsthand highlights from a packed UCLA/USC showdown. Then hoops insider Jordan Robinson joins the party to break down Unrivaled season two, the player-led league redefining the WNBA offseason, plus what’s next for women’s basketball at every level. New year, new energy, let’s get this party started. Follow @welcometothepartyshow on: YouTube — @welcometothepartyshow Instagram — @welcometothepartyshow TikTok — @welcometothepartyshow Email — partypeoplequestions@gmail.com Keep the Party Going: Unrivaled opening day results: https://www.unrivaled.basketball/ Pre-order Jordan’s Book Court Queens:https://www.amazon.com/Court-Queens-Celebrate-Players-Basketball/dp/B0FGX73CKW Follow Jordan: https://www.instagram.com/jordanligons/ And https://www.tiktok.com/@heyjordanrobinson Thank you to our sponsors: -Ally’s got you covered. Ally Bank, Member FDIC -Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread+ at onepeloton.com -Athletic Greens has their best offer ever. For $126 in free gifts. Head to: https://drinkag1.com/partner/general-partnerships?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=partnerships&utm_campaign=welcometotheparty_d35ct__a10727__o27&utm_term=cac__a10727__o27&utm_content=__a10727__o27 -Get your business data all in one place using Intuit Quickbooks. Visit https://quickbooks.intuit.com/ to learn more. -Get 40% off your first order today at hungryroot.com/wttp.

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0:00.0	Jordan, you are a rock star.
0:03.0	A few years ago, it was the WMBA or overseas, and now you have options.
0:08.0	Some of those players are just going to go and elect to potentially play in Project B full-time or in unrivaled full-time.
0:15.0	We don't want the biggest stars to just piece out in the W.
0:19.0	We flat out want to make sure these women are getting paid
0:22.1	what they deserve. Lauren Batts, who's 6-7. She is 6-7. I was like, oh my God, that poor woman
0:27.3	has to deal with that for the rest of their lives. Six-seven.
0:29.5	Forever. Attention. The party is about to commence. Oh, welcome to the party.
0:46.8	What's up, party people? I'm Julie Fowdy.
0:49.2	And I'm Abby Wambach. What's up party people?
0:52.6	Jules, how are you? God, I'm so excited. I'm so excited.
0:56.7	I was so excited for what? For the new year? That we're back? And, you know, I missed you guys.
1:02.4	And I even said to Glennon yesterday because she asked me, do you have Sunday Scaries? Do you ever
1:06.7	talk about Sunday Scaries? Mm-mm. What's Sunday Scaries? Like worried about Mondays? Yeah. This is a weird Monday. I did come to that conclusion, like after the holidays when you get back to like, okay, life is starting again. Yeah. It's a weird one. But I was like, I'm actually excited. Like I feel excited about like talking and interviewing all the people that we interviewed today and getting back into the flow.
1:30.1	Because like I don't know, it just feels like women's sports also.
1:33.3	Like all the sports basically takes the time off also.
1:35.7	So I'm like, what am I?
1:38.4	Who am I without women's sports?
1:40.4	I had that thought. I had that thought this morning.
1:41.7	I was like, how lucky are we that we get to talk to all these
1:45.6	rad women that are doing all this amazing stuff in women's sports? And that's what we call our job.
1:52.7	I know. It's so great. But then I also got sad because Izzy, my Izzy, I wore her sweatshirt.
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