WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert touts successes as tenure winds down

By Field Level Media Oct 18 (Field Level Media) With her tenure as WNBA commissioner in its final months, Cathy Engelbert met with media prior to Game 1 of the WNBA Finals in San Francisco on Saturday and touted the league s unprecedented popularity in recent years but also warned of headaches that can come with such rapid growth and prosperity. And she ​began her remarks using the Finals itself as one of the biggest signs of the league s success in the last ‌couple of years as it reached once- imaginable milestones in terms of revenue and popularity. The Golden State Valkyries, an expansion team just one season ago, hosted the Atlanta Dream for Game 1 of a Finals that will crown a first-time champion regardless of who wins. To be hosting a WNBA Finals in just your second season is remarkable, said Engelbert, who took over as commissioner in 2019 and has announced she will retire at the end of the calendar year. Perhaps even more remarkable is ‌another first ​the franchise achiev