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Happenings continued

The new team plays in a new league, the USL Super League, established, while leagues for women’s hockey, volleyball and
which started play in August. Technically the team plays in fastpitch softball are also planting roots.
Davie, in a 7,000-seat stadium on the Nova Southeastern But until now, that professional league growth has mostly
University campus that was still receiving the finishing touches bypassed South Florida. The region has never had a women’s
at this magazine’s deadline. The club’s first home game is soccer team; its only major league women’s team, the
scheduled for Sunday, September 29 against Dallas Trinity WNBA’s Miami Sol, folded in 2002 after three seasons.
FC. Before taking the field in South Florida, the club has also
been doing plenty of community outreach with, other things, The eight teams of the USL Super League will play alongside
popular free Saturday morning youth soccer clinics. the established National Women’s Soccer League, which
began play in 2013 as a successor to a previous league. The
The team arrives at a time when women’s soccer, and new league differs from the NWSL and men’s league Major
women’s sports in general, are experiencing a long-overdue League Soccer in that its schedule runs from late summer
surge in popularity. According to United Nations research, through the spring, like European leagues, as opposed to
the 2024 Summer Olympics were the most gender-equal a summer schedule. Parent organization the United Soccer
in history. In the United States, that boom has also meant League operates several lower-tier professional men’s leagues
increased opportunities for women in team sports to play and the women’s “pre-professional” USL W League, a league
professionally and spiking television ratings and game for top college players and others looking to develop into
attendance. Women’s soccer and basketball leagues are well
professional players.

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