{"id":391313,"date":"2026-07-09T00:04:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391313\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:04:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:04:39","slug":"meet-the-san-francisco-signal-the-bay-areas-new-pro-volleyball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/391313\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the San Francisco Signal, the Bay Area\u2019s new pro volleyball team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published Jul. 8, 2026at8:00am<\/p>\n

League One Volleyball\u2019s local expansion franchise will be the San Francisco Signal. The name, announced Wednesday, was selected through a fan vote about six months before the club begins play in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As one of several Bay Area pro sports teams set to launch in the next six months \u2014 PWHL San Jose starts play in December<\/a> \u2014 the Signal are betting that fans who have enjoyed supporting the Golden State Valkyries and Bay FC want a hand in building another team from the ground up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The team sourced concepts for its name from youth clubs, rec leagues, and women\u2019s sports fans throughout the region in a public campaign that collected 242 submissions. Fans chose among three finalists; the Signal beat out the Swell and the Tide.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have [our name] bubbling up from the community means everything to us,\u201d said team owner and president Stephanie Martin<\/a>. \u201cWe really want to be worthy of this region. This is a region where we have the best sports teams in the country, so to be able to ensure that our fans can participate from day one is incredibly important to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Jul. 8, 2026at8:00am League One Volleyball\u2019s local expansion franchise will be the San Francisco Signal. The name,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,127,8859],"class_list":["post-391313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}