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Basketball Legend Sue Bird on the Power of Sharing Her Career Highlights and Coming Out Story in Sundance Doc ‘In the Clutch’
Sue Bird discusses the power of sharing her career highlights and coming out story in Sundance doc 'In the Clutch.'
Ellis had been watching Bird’s star rise since high school (at Christ the King, which has long been a basketball powerhouse), then as a two-time NCAA champion at UCONN before getting drafted into the WNBA in 2002, where she won four titles and five Olympic gold medals. “Seeing this amazing career and knowing that she had won these titles, and all these gold medals and had become — if I’m not mistaken — one of the two highest gold-winning team athletes of all time in the Olympics, we also knew that Sue had been playing for 19 years at this point, and that it might come to an end soon,” Ellis explained. Last year, Bird and her fiancé, soccer icon Megan Rapinoe launched A Touch More, a media company focused on that centers the stories of revolutionaries who “move culture forward.” Throughout their careers — Bird retired in 2022 after a stellar 21-year WNBA career while Rapinoe retired from professional soccer last year as a two-time World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist — the athletes have championed for more visibility and pay for women, and A Touch More is the latest way to foster change by elevating untold stories about underrepresented communities.
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