Greetings, women’s soccer fans! I am overjoyed to share the news that we have launched The IX Soccer, our third women’s sports newsroom. You are in excellent hands: our editor-in-chief at The IX Soccer is Kathleen Gier, and Abigail Segel and Julie Schreiber have joined her to form a superteam of women’s soccer journalists leading us forward.
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As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the past year has been a time of change and growth for us here at The IX Sports. We’ve continued to provide best-in-class women’s sports journalism, both through our women’s basketball newsroom, The IX Basketball, and our six sport-specific insiders at The IX Daily. But we’ve spent countless hours examining how and what we do every single day to serve you all with the fierce urgency and deep professionalism the task of covering women’s sports properly requires.
Even as we added the incredible women’s hockey journalists at The Ice Garden to our The IX Sports family and launched not one but two new podcasts — longform The IX Sports Podcast and five-minute weekday Women’s Sports Daily — it was clear to me that women’s soccer, specifically, needed the daily, in-depth multimedia treatment our journalists can provide.
Back in 2020, when we started The IX Basketball, my theory of the case was that we could grow over time to the point where we could match the breadth and depth of the women’s basketball landscape. We’ve grown steadily, while breaking news and telling thousands of stories, past and present, in this space. There’s more work to be done, and we need your help to do it, but we’ve grown The IX Basketball into a coverage force, with dedicated WNBA reporters in every single market and scores of stories on women’s college basketball, Unrivaled, Athletes Unlimited and the international club and country game.
There is no way to look at the women’s soccer landscape here in 2026 — from the trajectory of the National Women’s Soccer League at the league, union and team level to the continued growth of the U.S. national team, from emergence and elevation of collegiate soccer, leagues the world over, national teams finally receiving the kind of investment necessary for sustained success — without understanding that a newsroom, covering it all day-to-day with purpose and independence is absolutely vital to this moment.
This cannot be done by a single reporter. This cannot be done without sustained investment in people, craft and, crucially, money for the countless hours of work required to do it right. This cannot be done as a sideshow for the real investment on the men’s side. Women’s sports deserves the proper spotlight, every day and in ways, large and small, you will always see and hear that misson reflected in how we report to and for you.
In the weeks ahead I’ll share more with you about how you can help us turn today’s cornerstone into a long-term monument to women’s sports media, how we will all make sure, collectively, that we will never face the scarcity of coverage that has simultaneously hampered the growth of women’s sports and turned what should be a simple pleasure for fans into the task we’ve all faced: doing the difficult work of simply finding out what is happening in the sports we love.
In the meantime, I urge you to join us. Sign up for our free work here. Become a paid subscriber below. Paid subscribers to The IX Sports get access to all of The IX Soccer’s stories, podcasts and videos.
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Subscribe now and join us, just $6 a month or $60 a year. It’s the women’s sports media network we all wished for, and now it’s here! Soccer Monday, Tennis Tuesday, Basketball Wednesday, Golf Thursday, Hockey Friday – powered by The Ice Garden — and Gymnastics Saturday.
Most important: go enjoy the work from today’s launch. Much more will follow. And you’ve waited long enough.
