Epicenter of Women’s Sports with Karina LeBlanc
Nov 5, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 12 segments
Portland Thorns forward Caiya Hanks chose transformative as her word for 2026. Portland Fire guard Sarah Ashlee Barker chose resilience. In the Season 2 finale, presented by AllTrails, the app for…
Caiya HanksGuest
Sarah Ashlee BarkerGuest
Karina LeBlancHost
So why don't you both say what you're excited about for the team in 2027 and what you're excited about for women's sports in 2027?
I'd probably say for the team, I'm excited for year two because I think in year one, you're trying to figure out a lot of things.
The way we do things and the way that we practice and how things are done is how it is.
And so I think us going into it year two, the chemistry that we have, the bonds that we have, I'm just excited to continue to grow that and continue to see where a team that is so connected, like how we're going to go on to the next phase and that's get to the playoffs, right? Like that is a goal for us.
Um, and so I'm just excited for that as a team, just like seeing our growth from year one to year two, because I think a lot of people don't realize that I'm going to use it in a sense of like just being at a college or something like that.
Like you go to a school for one year and some people are like, I'm going to get out.
And I always tell people, I'm like, no, no, no, no. give give it year two because I promise you like that second year is going to be completely different you know what you're walking into you know like there's the ups and downs of it like my year one from my year two from just like the travel to the sleep to like all the things that don't even involve basketball drastic change I was like completely different I was like yeah this is like what I love to do you know So I'm just excited for that part of it, of just the, we know we're walking into, but all right, how can we level up to this? Because the standard is the standard.
And like for us to be able to be in a facility and we see the trophies that the Thorns have in there, like we want, like that's the standard here.
So why don't you both say what you're excited about for the team in 2027 and what you're excited about for women's sports in 2027?
I'd probably say for the team, I'm excited for year two because I think in year one, you're trying to figure out a lot of things.
The way we do things and the way that we practice and how things are done is how it is.
And so I think us going into it year two, the chemistry that we have, the bonds that we have, I'm just excited to continue to grow that and continue to see where a team that is so connected, like how we're going to go on to the next phase and that's get to the playoffs, right? Like that is a goal for us.
Um, and so I'm just excited for that as a team, just like seeing our growth from year one to year two, because I think a lot of people don't realize that I'm going to use it in a sense of like just being at a college or something like that.
Like you go to a school for one year and some people are like, I'm going to get out.
And I always tell people, I'm like, no, no, no, no. give give it year two because I promise you like that second year is going to be completely different you know what you're walking into you know like there's the ups and downs of it like my year one from my year two from just like the travel to the sleep to like all the things that don't even involve basketball drastic change I was like completely different I was like yeah this is like what I love to do you know So I'm just excited for that part of it, of just the, we know we're walking into, but all right, how can we level up to this? Because the standard is the standard.
And like for us to be able to be in a facility and we see the trophies that the Thorns have in there, like we want, like that's the standard here.
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