{"id":758334,"date":"2026-07-12T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758334\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T10:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T10:08:08","slug":"the-stoop-pigeon-is-continuing-to-grow-its-footprint-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/758334\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stoop Pigeon is continuing to grow its footprint in women’s sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n

Philly is set for a huge summer of women\u2019s sports. The Stoop Pigeon wants to be at the center of it.<\/p>\n

The Stoop Pigeon hosted a double-watch party for the Wimbledon women\u2019s final and Saturday\u2019s WNBA slate at Dock Street Brewing in South Philly. The organization partnered with United States Tennis Associate Middle States<\/a>, to help promote August\u2019s Ennoble Care Open on the University Pennsylvania\u2019s campus, and Hoopbus, a charitable organization dedicated to the transformative power of basketball. Attendees could play red ball tennis, win tennis racket prize packs, and shoot hoops outside on the bus.<\/p>\n

After starting as a monthly WNBA watch party group<\/a>, The Stoop Pigeon has grown into one of the largest dedicated women\u2019s sports fan communities in the city. Jen Leary, founder of The Stoop Pigeon, now regularly hears from local and national organizations looking to activate the women\u2019s sports communities about partnerships.<\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: The Stoop Pigeon, a women\u2019s sports hub and cafe, has a new location and plans to open in June<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAnytime we hold a certain event, like if it\u2019s tennis, we reach out to all the tennis organizations we can find on the internet,\u201d Leary said. \u201cSimilarly, with the WNBA game, Hoopbus reached out to us because they were going to be on this national tour, and they were going to be in Philly. Having them stop here, it\u2019s a win-win. It gives something fun for the community, but also helps us continue again to build momentum for what we\u2019re building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leary emphasized that while The Stoop Pigeon might be one of the most vocal groups, promoting women\u2019s sports in the city is a \u201cteam effort,\u201d and a big part of that is partnering with other local organizations. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe one thing that women\u2019s sports around the world does is we lift each other up and we work together. Progress in numbers,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The Stoop Pigeon is aiming to open a women\u2019s sports hub on Broad Street by midfall, Leary said. But in a year with several high-profile women\u2019s sports events, Leary is committed to keeping the momentum growing in the city and building the community as they prepare the space.<\/p>\n

\u00bb READ MORE: Unrivaled brought the hoops, but Philly brought the energy. With WNBA on the way, \u2018this is just the beginning.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

After the massive success of Unrivaled in January, Philly will host professional women\u2019s lacrosse, tennis, and squash over the next five months. Leary believes that the efforts The Stoop Pigeon and other organizations have put into developing a women\u2019s sports community in the city are part of the reason Philly is landing more events, but landing the event is half the battle. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is just to get people there, to show the WTA and all the other women\u2019s sports leagues in the country that Philly is a women\u2019s sports town, and if you come to Philly, we will pack the stadiums like we did with Unrivaled,\u201d Leary said. \u201cEven if you don\u2019t know tennis or even if you don\u2019t know lacrosse, we want you there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Philly is set for a huge summer of women\u2019s sports. The Stoop Pigeon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,324771,434],"class_list":["post-758334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-stoop-pigeon-hoopbus-utsa-middle-states-watch-party-wimbledon-wnba-games","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758334","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=758334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}