The Washington Mystics, Washington Spirit, D.C. Divas and D.C. Shadow have formed a coalition, in partnership with youth sports charity Leveling the Playing Field, to help connect with and support the region’s women’s sports teams.
The group is called the Washington Coalition of Women’s Professional Sports.
In a release, the group says that its members are “driven by a mission to purposefully and significantly impact the Greater Washington community by connecting the region’s women’s professional sports teams through service-focused collaboration.”
“The Washington Coalition of Women’s Professional Sports seeks to kick off the next 50 years of Title IX with the intention of creating a prosperous future for women’s sports in the DMV,” they wrote.
Their first initiative will be a sports bra collection drive, with a goal of collecting a total of 5,000 donated sports bras. Those bras will then be donated to girls and women across the DMV region in helping to ensure that all wanting to play sports have access to necessary equipment.
