Nikki Fargas of the Las Vegas Aces and Jennifer Rizzotti of the Connecticut Sun are two of the nine female team presidents in the WNBA.
that spring when her phone rang the same day. Just over a month later, she was hired as president of the Connecticut Sun.Finals as the Aces lead the Sun 2-1 with Game 4 scheduled for Sunday in Connecticut. The moves were logical next steps for the basketball lifers, but they exemplify a growing movement in the league, and across sports, of having more women in leadership positions.
“It’s important for us to recognize that when you do put us in these positions and you give us these opportunities,” Fargas explained, “that we can be successful and we can succeed and accomplish any goal or any results you’re trying to reach. That here we are also just as competent as our male counterparts.“As a league, we’ve always stood in the forefront of so many social initiatives and social justice where it’s an injustice not to have representation.
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