The league will officially announce the expansion team at a Thursday news conference
Teresa Resch at Hotel X in Toronto on May 22. Resch will be announced as the president of Toronto ’s WNBA expansion team at a Thursday press conference.Teresa Resch , the former Toronto Raptors executive who Masai Ujiri considered his “right arm” and Larry Tanenbaum says inspires with passion will lead the Women’s National Basketball Association’s 14th club, a team set to tip off in Toronto in 2026.
Resch has been quiet about the new gig until now, even as she was inundated with messages after CBC first reported in March that Kilmer Sports Ventures, led by Tanenbaum, was pursuing a team. Tanenbaum is also the chairman and a minority owner of“We weren’t done, we didn’t want to pre-celebrate, we were still in the nuance,” Resch said. Still, she saw the overwhelming reaction from Canadian fans and throughout the sports industry.
That meant taking a leap, leaving her job with the Raptors despite having no guarantee yet that the WNBA would award them a team. Resch was among those he tried to hire when he joined the Denver Nuggets but she turned it down. He offered again when he got to the Raptors and she accepted. When Ujiri was asked how he felt about her departure from his team to lead a Toronto WNBA expansion club he said: “this has been a dream for all of us.
Resch has done a lot of research on the business viability of Canada as a market for women’s pro sports, within her work at MLSE but also as an advisory member for Canadian Women & Sport, which produced two white papers on the topic. She also had a close-up look at Toronto holding the first WNBA exhibition game at the sold-out 19,800-seat Scotiabank Arena a year ago.
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