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John Domen | jdomen@wtop.com
April 17, 2024, 3:05 PM
The Washington Mystics play within the WNBA’s second-smallest area at a time when curiosity in girls’s school basketball has gone manner up. Can the world they name residence accommodate that elevated curiosity, particularly now that the celebrities of ladies’s school hoops are going professional?
Not less than in some instances, the reply could also be no. It’s one thing the Mystics are noticing.
The Mystics play on the Leisure and Sports activities Area in Southeast D.C., which seats 4,200 individuals.
With the Mystics’ residence opener a few month away, the workforce confirms it’s at the very least contemplating looking for a method to transfer sure video games to greater venues across the D.C. space. The Mystics later clarified that the workforce is contemplating just one bigger venue, Capital One Area.
Positioned in downtown D.C., Capital One Area, which can be owned by Monumental Sports activities, seats 20,000 ticket holders.
“Demand this season has actually been unprecedented,” stated Alycen McAuley, the chief enterprise officer for the Mystics. “The curiosity, particularly after Monday evening’s draft has actually been extraordinary.”
After setting a report for residence sellouts final yr, McAuley stated the workforce is on tempo to interrupt that report once more this season.
“I believe we’re seeing double digit curiosity will increase (in tickets) for us proper now,” she stated. “It varies throughout the video games however simply within the final 48 hours, curiosity for full seasons might be at a report excessive for us.”
Demand for tickets to some video games specifically was characterised as unprecedented. WTOP checked out the price of tickets to a June 7 sport in opposition to the Indiana Fever, which simply drafted Caitlin Clark, and located even the most cost effective seats value round $200 on reseller websites. McAuley stated it’s attainable that sport, and perhaps others too, get moved to a much bigger venue.
“We’re working with the league and our companions to discover that chance proper now, as a result of we’d actually like to permit as many followers as attainable to benefit from the sport,” she stated. “It’s not simply that Fever sport. I believe we’re seeing that demand for a few of our different video games this season.”
McAuley stated the workforce is “taking a tough look” at the opportunity of holding some video games at Capital One Area.
There are some potential hurdles. Scheduling conflicts may pop up, and McAuley stated town would have a say within the matter, too.
“I’m additionally actually stunned and impressed with what number of followers simply actually need to are available in and assist,” she stated. “They’re in search of season tickets. They need to come out for all the video games. They’re actually understanding that the economics of ladies’s sports activities is admittedly predicated on this, the assist from people and firms. And they also’re actually voting for girls’s sports activities with their wallets.”
Editor’s Be aware: This story has been up to date primarily based on a clarification from the Washington Mystics.
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John began working at WTOP in 2016 after having grown up in Maryland listening to the station as a baby. Whereas he acquired his on-air begin at small stations in Pennsylvania and Delaware, he is spent most of his profession within the D.C. space, having been heard on a number of native stations earlier than coming to WTOP.
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