KQED Youth Takeover: We’re Getting a WNBA Team

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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The WNBA is coming to the Bay Area! Fans will have a new women’s team to cheer for, at a moment when female superstars like Caitlin Clark have captivated basketball lovers of all ages. As part of KQED’s Youth Takeover week, high school athletes Mahi Jariwala, Jessie Lin and Olivia Ma bring together a sports journalist, a basketball coach and a Title IX attorney to talk about the impact of women’s basketball in the Bay Area – and the arrival of a new professional team. Guests: Mahi Jariwala, senior, Monte Vista High School Jessie Lin, senior, Woodside High School Olivia Ma, junior, BASIS Independent Fremont Marisa Ingemi, women's sports reporter, San Francisco Chronicle Kim Turner, co-CEO of the nonprofit Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative; Title IX attorney Jeff Addiego, vice president, Warriors Basketball Academy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	From KQD in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:48.4	Did you all know that we're getting a WNBA team here in the Bay Area?
0:52.8	I'm excited.
0:53.8	You should be, or maybe even are excited.
0:56.0	Women's basketball has taken flight in the last few years. And as part of Youth Takeover Week
1:00.8	here at the station, high school athletes Mahjadjahuala, Jesse Lynn, and Olivia Ma, wanted to talk
1:06.8	about the impact of women's basketball in the Bay Area and what it's going to mean for us to finally have a women's pro team playing at Chase Center.
1:14.7	That's all coming up of the year when we get to work with
1:45.3	Bay Area High School students to produce shows. Today we're going to be talking about women's
1:49.9	basketball in the Bay Area, including, of course, the big news that we're getting a WNBA
1:55.0	expansion franchise, which is going to play at the Chase Center in San Francisco. I want to welcome
2:00.2	the people who produce this show, our student colleagues.
2:03.1	Up first, we've got my old pal, Mahi Jarwal, and now a senior at Monavista High School.
2:08.7	She first joined us three years ago.
2:10.0	Welcome back, Mahi.
2:10.9	Thank you so much for having me, Alexis.
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