For the first time, WBL's San Francisco Pioneers will reunite in the Bay Area

On Monday, July 14, the first professional women’s basketball team in San Francisco will finally be reunited in the city where it all started.

Former members of the Pioneers (an expansion team in the Women’s Professional Basketball League, or WBL) will receive long overdue recognition while being honored as part of the Golden State Valkyries History of Bay Area Women’s Basketball Theme Night.

“It’s a massive moment,” Golden State’s senior vice president of marketing and communications, Kimberly Veale, told The Next. “There’s just this joy and pride exuding from these women, and we just want to give them their due.”

But the Pioneers’ journey to being honored has been a lengthy and winding tale. It’s a story of success and disappointment, of solidarity and heartfelt organizing. And it all started decades before the creation of the WNBA, during the early 1980’s, in the San Francisco Bay Area.



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