Ball Up Top: A Women’s Basketball Podcast
Sep 4, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
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Andrew HobnerHost
End of an era in a lot of ways, right? Kathy Engelbert has been the commissioner of the WNBA since 2019.
period of growth over the last seven years, not just in the W, but in women's basketball in general.
She has been a direct beneficiary of players like Kaitlyn Clark, Angel Reese, the elevation of Asia Wilson from star to superstar to eventual greatest of all time, top three player of all time.
Paige Backers, AZ Fun, this next group that's coming into the league, Juju Watkins and the like.
She came from Deloitte, was the first woman to lead a big four accounting firm when she was appointed CEO in 2015, or rather elected as CEO in 2015.
She was the steward of the W's new transformational TV deal and was part of the league bargaining side that ushered in a CBA that, while maybe a little bit more long than the players wanted it to be, got the players everything they wanted.
End of an era in a lot of ways, right? Kathy Engelbert has been the commissioner of the WNBA since 2019.
period of growth over the last seven years, not just in the W, but in women's basketball in general.
She has been a direct beneficiary of players like Kaitlyn Clark, Angel Reese, the elevation of Asia Wilson from star to superstar to eventual greatest of all time, top three player of all time.
Paige Backers, AZ Fun, this next group that's coming into the league, Juju Watkins and the like.
She came from Deloitte, was the first woman to lead a big four accounting firm when she was appointed CEO in 2015, or rather elected as CEO in 2015.
She was the steward of the W's new transformational TV deal and was part of the league bargaining side that ushered in a CBA that, while maybe a little bit more long than the players wanted it to be, got the players everything they wanted.
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