EXCLUSIVE: Olympic Gold medalists Sue Hen and Megan Rapinoe have inked with WME in all areas.
The sports activities icons will probably be working with the company throughout model partnerships, books, scripted and non-scripted TV, digital and podcasting, amongst different areas.
Hen retired from the WNBA in 2022 after a historic profession spanning three many years because the world’s premier level guard, by which she received 5 Olympic Gold Medals, 4 World Championship Medals, two NCAA Championships, and 4 WNBA Championships, amongst quite a few different accolades. In 2024, her jersey was retired by the Seattle Storm, changing into solely the second participant in franchise historical past to obtain this honor; she formally joined the Seattle Storm possession group, and it was just lately introduced that she will probably be inducted into each the Girls’s Basketball Corridor of Fame and the Naismith Corridor of Fame later this yr.
Rapinoe is a two-time World Cup Champion, Olympic Gold medalist and soccer legend. She helped lead the US Girls’s Nationwide Crew to the 2019 Girls’s World Cup Championship, the place she took residence the match’s two prime honors – the Golden Boot for prime scorer, and the Golden Ball for one of the best participant within the match. Along with her numerous soccer accolades, Megan can be a New York Instances bestselling creator, one among Time100’s Most Influential Individuals, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom award recipient. Rapinoe just lately had her jersey retired by the OL Reign (the primary participant in franchise historical past and the second participant in your entire NWSL to have this honor) and he or she was simply inducted into the College of Portland Corridor of Fame.
On the finish of 2022, Rapinoe and Hen launched A Contact Extra, a manufacturing firm targeted on producing entertaining tales that middle distinctive voices and underserved communities. Their first TV scripted sequence, Enjoying the Discipline, (based mostly on Meryl Wilsner’s best-selling novel, Cleat Cute) is at present in growth. Enjoying the Discipline is an ensemble present set on the earth of ladies’s soccer and a up to date romance that follows a younger soccer participant as she juggles being the rookie, her targets of creating the nationwide group and a budding romance with the group captain.
Rapinoe and Hen additionally re-launched their podcast, A Contact Extra: The Podcast final yr. Initially an Instagram Reside sequence originating in the course of the top of the pandemic, the podcast rapidly garnered a big following for its trustworthy and wide-ranging conversations, which has continued because the re-launch of the present. The duo additionally function EPs on the podcast through their A Contact Extra manufacturing banner. The podcast was just lately named as one among Apple’s “Exhibits We Love” for 2024.
In 2021, Hen co-founded Togethxr – a woman-centered media commerce group – alongside Alex Morgan, Simone Manuel and Chloe Kim, to additional the progress, tradition, illustration, and protection of all ladies and women in sport. By means of Togethxr, she produced Energy of the Dream, a documentary from director Daybreak Porter on the WNBA and their battle for social justice which had a serious affect on US politics in 2020; and the six-part podcast sequence, Summer time of Gold, concerning the American feminine athletes who dominated within the 1996 Atlanta video games. It was just lately introduced that this podcast sequence will probably be tailored right into a tv restricted sequence with Hen as one of many govt producers on the mission. Togethxr can be represented by WME.
Final yr, Hen hosted Sue’s Locations, a tackle Peyton Manning’s signature ESPN+ Authentic sequence, the place she explores the historical past and traditions of school basketball; over the previous a number of years, she and greatest good friend Diana Taurasi have hosted their common ‘alterna-cast’ The Hen & Taurasi Present with their protection of the Girls’s Last 4; and Sue Hen: Within the Clutch, a documentary on her historic profession premiered on the Sundance Movie Pageant and is at present accessible on Netflix.
Hen and Rapinoe are outspoken advocates for LGBTQ+ rights, racial equality, and gender fairness.
