Bay Club<\/a> is welcoming professional WNBA players to utilize 29 locations across the West Coast in cities including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.<\/p>\n\u201cMany of our associates and leaders are former athletes, and we understand firsthand how critical consistent access to training and recovery is \u2014 not just for performance, but for confidence, well-being and long-term success,\u201d said Bay Club Company chief marketing officer Tracy Cioffi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSupporting WNBPA players with facility access is a natural extension of Bay Club\u2019s commitment to investing in women\u2019s sports and standing behind the athletes who help shape future leaders,\u201d Cioffi added.<\/p>\n
The hubs arrive as the union awaits the WNBA\u2019s response to its latest proposal in December, which included a request for roughly 30% of league and team revenue and a $10 million-plus salary cap, Sports Business Journal reported.<\/p>\n
Historically, it\u2019s not uncommon for WNBA players to have to find their own places to train, recover and stay in shape for competition when they can\u2019t access team facilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe reached out to facilities across the country and around the world, and the response has been overwhelming. \u2026 These hubs are about standing together and making sure every player has what they need to stay ready and keep doing what they love,\u201d said senior vice president of player relations at the WNBPA, Jayne Appel Marinelli.<\/p>\n
Bay Club is also offering off-season employment opportunities for players seeking additional work during the lockout period.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere on the West Coast, universities such as Stanford, Cal-Berkeley and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are opening their facilities, in addition to Bay Club.<\/p>\n
As for players on the East Coast, there will be training and recovery options at the WNBPA headquarters in New York City, as well as in Brooklyn and at Manhattan University. Exos\u2019 human performance centers will also be available in Alpharetta, Georgia, Gulf Breeze, Florida, Phoenix and Plano, Texas and the Embassy, a high-end performance training facility in M\u00e1laga, Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As strike or lockout concerns grow, luxury fitness operator Bay Club is opening 29 West Coast locations to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[206715,99,434,1765],"class_list":["post-437631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-bay-club","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}