Building a more equitable world through sport | Mom | President, @valkyries | views are my own | she/her
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Welcome, Kaitlyn!
Taking her 'ship to the Bay 🏆.
Welcome back to the Best Coast, Kaitlyn Chen!
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No place like Ballhalla. @valkyries fans are one of one. ⚔️🪽
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Welcome, Shyanne!
Sellers’ market: officially open.
Welcome to the Bay, Shyanne Sellers!
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The world is watching what we're building at Golden State, and this is truly reflective of everyone that has been a part of it. Fortunate to have learned from so many throughout my time in this industry that has led me here.
SBJ’s Best Hire of the Year: Jess Smith 🏀
In just under a year, she’s built the WNBA's Golden State Valkyries (@wnbagoldenstate) from the ground up, securing 21K season-ticket deposits, global merchandise sales, and major sponsors.
🗞️: ow.ly/vLyb50Uw04M
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LETS GOOOOOO! How's that to start our day, @valkyries fam?!
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WELCOME, @tiphayes3! 🪽
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THIS team. You’ll get to know @weareangelcity a little more beginning May 16 on @HBO x @hbomax when Angel City, the docuseries drops.
Behind and in front of the scenes, the relentless pursuit of success is driven by all of these humans on the daily. ✨❤️
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At this point I'm wondering who ISN'T coming to the @weareangelcity match on Sunday. Guest-list confirmations are unreal. LETS. GO.
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The trust and belief in me from @juhrman to help build @weareangelcity is overwhelming.
22,000 fans. 20+ partners. Purpose driven revenue models at every level.
Just the beginning. ✨
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Not over the number of @valkyries fans I had a chance to meet in Indy for WNBA All-Star. Grateful for our community and the support Ballhalla showed for KT as she made history as our first ever All-Star. Can’t wait to be back at @ChaseCenter on Friday!
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Fortunate to represent @weareangelcity. Defined by the purpose to ignite higher expectations on and off the field with the incredible staff, investors, and fans to ensure we make that happen. #WeAreAngelCity
New @NWSL club @weareangelcity has hired @SJEarthquakes' VP of Sponsorships Jessica Smith as its Head of Corporate Partnerships. Angel City's sponsorships will be unique in that 10% of every sponsorship will be tithed to social causes (Terry Lefton).
sbjsbd.biz/36w8yso
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Missing the @SJEarthquakes match tonight, but for a good reason. Welcomed their newest fan to the world this week. We’ll be cheering from home with our daughter. ❤️ #Quakes74 #VamosSJ
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Valkyries deposit holder open house today at Chase Center! Can’t wait to meet so many of our day one supporters. 🪽✨💜
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As a native of the SF Bay Area with experience in both the WNBA x NBA, Kimberly adds trust, expertise and heart to what we're building @wnbagoldenstate. She has an innate understanding of the women’s sports landscape and the authenticity our fans demand and deserve. Let's go! 🙌
The Golden State Warriors have named Kimberly Veale as Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications, for Golden State’s WNBA team.
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Our second daughter arrived happy, healthy, and incredibly tolerant of her sister’s awkward holding positions.
We feel so fortunate to be her parents. Can not wait to live life beside these girls.🤍
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A monumental day seeing the investment continue to pour into women's sports. Feeling very grateful to be a small part of the journey with so many talented, relentless people that will not stop building. More to do.
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See you Friday @ChaseCenter, @valkyries fam! Time to make history! Our time! 🪽✨
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To say we're having fun at the Valkyries is an understatement. Coach @NatalieNakase and I had a chance to join @jpmorgan @Chase in New York last week for Women on the Move. Even made a bit of history with the Valkyries first t-shirt toss.
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What. A. Day.
The merch line for Valkyries gear right now 🤝
The Bay is READY to rep their @wnba team
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Welcome to the Bay!
The moment Shyanne Sellers & Kaitlyn Chen touched down in the Bay Area!
@united
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3 weeks time. 5,000 ➡️ 6,000 deposits.
So much more to come, @wnbagoldenstate community.
And, yes, I’m reading the comments / your suggestions 👀
"We cannot wait to continue building a team worthy of the support we’re seeing to date." - Jess Smith
The Bay is READY.
🎟️: wnba.com/goldenstate
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Thrilled to welcome @Heineken to the @weareangelcity family! They’re more than a sponsor - 10% of our partnership will impact the LGBTQ community. Get ready for some incredible activations. 🍻
.@Heineken has signed on as @weareangelcity's first corporate sponsor. The expansion #NWSL club signed a four-year, founding partner deal with the brewer for rights in the beer, non-alcoholic beer, hard seltzer and craft beer categories (@markjburns88).
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Nah. We’re just getting started. Thanks for the take, though. Will reference it in three years showcasing the league’s growth.
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Beautiful day for an epic @WNBA Draft! Can’t wait to see it all unfold.
We’ve got next, @wnbagoldenstate 👊🏼
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The talent in this league is unmatched. All season long, get your @NWSL 🍿 ready because this is just week 2.
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Our partner @DoorDash will not only represent our club as we take the field in 2022, they are a true partner in @weareangelcity’s vision for impact.
This partnership represents a new standard on many fronts. Los Angeles, we’ve got you.
We are proud to announce @DoorDash as our 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 front-of-kit founding sponsor 🤝
Together, we’re joining the fight to address food insecurity in Los Angeles.
For more info → weareac.co/ACFCxDoorDash
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The things coming together for @wnbagoldenstate are keeping me up at night in the best way. Can't wait to share soon.👀
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Honored to be selected to the Under 40 class with @LeadersBiz!
A representation of the collective work @weareangelcity. The community of fans, staff, investors, partners, and followers is unmatched.
Congrats to my fellow honorees, see you in London this fall! #LSA2023
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Cannot wait to work beside Ohemaa and the passion, knowledge, and tenacity she brings with her. Welcome to @wnbagoldenstate!
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Beyond fortunate to have the leadership of @StephenCurry30 at Golden State as we’re building @wnbagoldenstate.
"[Steph Curry] is walking the walk of being an ally and uplifting the incredible talent that sits beside him."
Golden State president @JessicaShazzam explains how Steph Curry has helped the WNBA expansion.
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My Great Aunt Mimi died from COVID this morning. She continuously instilled confidence in me, and was a huge part of my childhood. One of my favorite moments with her is shared below, telling her I was pregnant with my daughter.
Please stay safe. Please wear a mask.
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Our Valkyries community keeps growing 🪽✨
12,000 ticket deposits ☑️
We have received over 4,500 deposits since announcing we are the Golden State Valkyries and have surpassed 12,000 deposits.
Join our ascent » valkyries.com
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Something I shared at @espnW’s NYC Summit that stays in my core each day:
Sports are a reflection of society.
The narratives reflect our everyday lives, and sports provide us a platform to build community. To have uncomfortable conversations. To educate.
More than a game.
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This @weareangelcity family. I can’t.
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This leadership team. ✨
The best humans I’ve ever worked beside. Caring about one another while holding each other and our teams accountable. Relentlessly building @weareangelcity into what it is, and what it will become.
Could not have done any of this without them.
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Our @weareangelcity story is just getting started. Take a peek at our beginning this May.
When the stars align, everything changes.
#AngelCity premieres this May on @hbomax.
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Morning views before spending the day surrounded by the amazing group that @espnW has brought together for the summit.
Register and stream (for free) here: nyc.espnwsummit.com/
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Welcome, @Sephora ✨
The baddest of the Bay ✨💄
Our Bay Area neighbor, @Sephora, is joining the Golden State Valkyries as a Founding Partner, the Official Beauty Partner, and presenter of the Sephora Performance Center in Oakland.
Together, we’re celebrating the beauty of sport and redefining what performance looks like.
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Honored to be included in the @SBJ 40 Under 40 class of 2023. More to do, but heading home to my Kip and Vaughn with a full heart.
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Representing the Valkyries for San Francisco Pride this morning and hanging with our newest deposit holder Kniesha.
🌈✨🪽💜
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We’re so excited to work with @Zonozi and team. Insightful data, unmatched passion for the women’s game, and an appetite to keep growing together built this partnership.
We are THRILLED to announce a partnership with @weareangelcity!
We are excited to work with ACFC and drive the future of women’s sports and continue to utilize the @zoomph platform to support the case for investing in & growing the game.
Read more: go.zmph.it/3uZZeFV
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Welcome to the @valkyries, Justė!
With the 5th pick in the 2025 #WNBADraft, we select… Juste Jocyte. ✨🪽
Welcome to the Bay, Juste! Let’s get to work.
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Amazing to see the work of the entire @weareangelcity organization, partners, fans, & community showcased with this nomination. We've done what no one thought possible, but our founders did. Thank you, @juhrman, @karanortman, Natalie Portman. Just getting started.
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There’s truly nothing like @weareangelcity home match energy. ✨
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A full circle moment for me. Fortunate to represent the Valkyries and include my little fam in this one. ✨🪽⚾️
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Is it 2024 yet? The best fans, front office, investors. @weareangelcity has always been something special, but the community we are building is unmatched.
Our hearts are full 🖤 Thank you ACFC Family for your support this season and always. Our work is not done, we will see you in 2024!
#WeAreAngelCity
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This is awesome, @thekccurrent
History right down the street 🏟️
Just wait ‘til @kcstreetcar extends to KC Current Stadium in 2025 🙌
@TheCityMarketKC | #KCBABY
ALT Photo of the KC Streetcar stop at City Market with a sign that reads, “You are 1.2 miles away from the only stadium in the world built for a women’s professional sports team.”
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I said what I said. 15,000! (and counting)
Just the beginning of our journey, and one that would not be possible without the growing staff, fans, and stakeholder support we continue to cultivate. Much, much more to come soon. Hold me to it.
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The @wnbagoldenstate community >>>
Stay tuned. We're just getting started. 👀
📈 7,000 season ticket deposits and counting!
Just 2 weeks after surpassing 6,000 deposits, we have 1,000 more @WNBA x Golden State supporters.
Place a deposit » wnba.com/goldenstate
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Spending my morning with @sportsilab.
We often share investing in women’s sports is not only the right thing to do, it’s an incredible business strategy.
The data shared this AM proves just that. Fans of women’s sports are worth more. And we’re just getting started.
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Our time, @valkyries fans. Cannot wait to see you all at Chase Center in May. ✨
EXCLUSIVE: The @valkyries are the first @WNBA team to sell 10,000 season tickets.
“This community has shown up, and then some to create this milestone,” Valkyries president Jess Smith said in a video interview.
The Valkyries share ownership and an arena with the Warriors, but the crossover in season ticket sales is less than 5% between the WNBA and NBA teams.
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We’re finally able to share this with the world! ✨
So many talented members of our team worked tirelessly on all details to make this a reality. Proving I’m surrounded by the best in the game time and time again. ✨
✨ HERE IT IS ✨
The first look at our inaugural jersey! Check it out from every angle. We can’t wait to see YOU wearing it in 2022!
Find out more → jersey.angelcity.com
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Our time, Bay Area.
Joe Lacob’s next blockbuster hit? Golden State WNBA team has perfect timing sfchronicle.com/sports/annki… via @sfchronicle
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Monumental day for the Valkyries in welcoming @Chase!
We’re committed to building a partnership reflective of the passion of the Bay Area’s leadership in culture innovation, the power of the WNBA and its players, and our community.
Just the beginning. Stay tuned. 👀✨
We are thrilled to announce Chase as the Golden State Valkyries First Founding Partner.
@Chase, the Official Financial Services Partner of the Valkyries, will also be the team’s shield jersey partner. The Chase Freedom logo will be featured on home and road uniforms.
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A peek behind my journey to @wnbagoldenstate and what’s on tap for us next 👀
Jess Smith is building the Golden State Warriors-owned WNBA team at a time when the momentum — popularity, revenue, ratings and opportunity — for women’s basketball continues to skyrocket.
@annkillion column:
trib.al/MEwb0lL
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Welcome, @NatalieNakase 🪽
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Thank you for everything you’ve given both to @weareangelcity and fans across the globe watching your leadership. The game, and all of us are better because of you @julieertz.
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Fortunate to be learning and discussing women’s sports while at #CannesLions - began my morning with @femalequotient and this incredible group of change makers.
Representing @IndianaFever, @McDonalds, @sambatv, @Disney, and @weareangelcity.
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Is it July 14th yet?
.@kate_martin22 ON BACK-TO-BACK PLAYS!
@StephenCurry30 loving it in Ballhalla!
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If I’m this emotional today I can’t imagine what our @weareangelcity Opening Day and game day vibe will be like. LFG, 2022 is ours! #MakeHistoryWithUs
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It's my first day back from maternity leave today. A few reflections after going through this twice.
Join me for my first 🧵 (Am I doing this right?)
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We’re building something powerful, the Bay’s way. 🪽
interviewed the tireless @wnbagoldenstate president, @gametimejess — we talked about expectations as the first expansion team since 2008, why building new locker rooms in an existing arena was imperative, and the difference between team and brand building
sbnation.com/wnba/2024/10/7/…
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