Despite training some of the world's best female athletes, Colorado is not represented in the National Women’s Soccer League, the Women’s National Basketball Association, the Premier Hockey Federation or any other major women’s sports league.
Colorado routinely produces elite female athletes, even world-class standouts.
That absence is especially glaring in soccer with four homegrown talents — Lindsey Horan, Jaelin Howell, Mallory Pugh and Sophia Smith — featured on the U.S. Women’s National Team. But each plays professionally well outside Colorado’s borders.Colorado is producing some of the world’s best female athletes 50 years after embracing Title IX
Colorado Xplosion’s Edna Campbell releases the ball over San Jose Lasers Charlotte Smith in the 2nd quarter at the Denver Coliseum on Saturday, Nov. 28, 1998. Its popularity peaked in 1998 when the Xplosion was picked to host a nationally televised home game. Pressure mounted from league owners to sell out the building when Lark Birdsong, now 71, was the Xplosion’s general manager. Birdsong said she spent the team’s entire $40,000 marketing budget on that one game — newspaper/radio ads, public service announcements — to drum up local interest.“It showed us the resources we need to make things like that work,” Birdsong said.
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