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The WNBA had just 12 teams in 2024. It will have have 18 by 2030, but Houston, which was bidding to bring the Comets back, ...
Fran Harris (center) and teammates from the WNBA 1997 Houston Comets. Harris is leading a project to build a large youth sports complex in Forney since the city's last one shut down in 2016.
Fran Harris at Sportico’s Invest in Sports New York event in November. Bryan Bedder/Sportico via Getty A WNBA team may come to Austin, thanks to a multimillion-dollar bid led by former Texas ...
AUSTIN — Fran Harris has a plan. The former Texas women’s basketball great has the financial backing, she insists. She’s got the support of the school administration and the city’s mayor ...
Fran Harris knows the city of Austin quite well. It’s where she’s spent most of her adult life, and where she won an NCAA championship as a basketball star at the University of Texas.
The city has a good corporate base and population growth that might be attractive to the league. From the Austin Business Journal. Caitlin Clark's meteoric rise as a college star. The U.S. women ...
Fran Harris, a former University of Texas women's basketball star, TV personality and entrepreneur, has an opinion of where the next team should be: Austin.
Former Texas basketball star and Houston Comet, Fran Harris met with Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and local officials at City Hall to advocate for a WNBA team in Austin. Fran Harris.
Fran Harris, speaking at Sportico's Invest in Sports New York on Nov. 24, 2024, wants to land a WNBA team for Austin.
Fran Harris led Texas to a 34-0 record and an NCAA national championship in 1986. She's now spearheading Austin's case to be the WNBA's 16th franchise. Skip Navigation ...
Fran Harris made her appearance on Shark Tank season 12 episode 9, which aired on January 8, 2021. She sought $350,000 for 20% equity in her company, Electra Beverages, a healthy sports drink brand.