Renee Montgomery #woman #huskie #champion #dream

Welcome back to the Bill Bradley Collective, where this week we present our much anticipated season six premier with a profile of women’s basketball great, broadcaster, business executive and philanthropist Renee Montgomery. This season is centered around women in sports, and there is perhaps no better subject when taking into account off-court purpose and achievement than Montgomery. A standout at the University of Connecticut and a multi-time WNBA champion, her on-court career is outdone by a second act that is virtually unprecedented for an athlete. Amidst the wave of racial unrest that enveloped the country during the summer of 2020, Montgomery pressed pause on her basketball career and later retired in deference to social and racial justice initiatives. Join us as we discuss everything Renee Montgomery has achieved in her post-basketball career: from her role in the Atlanta Dream’s support of Raphael Warnock’s successful Senate bid, being the catalyst behind the downfall of sworn Collective enemy Kelly Loeffler, contributions to the Black Lives Matter movement and her Atlanta community, and to eventually being one of three owners of the aforementioned Dream, those are just a few of the boxes Montgomery has checked in her brief retirement from the court. In a space where the content can often be dour and downbeat particularly in light of some recent episodes, the story of Renee Montgomery is every bit as inspiring and encouraging. A model athlete, activist, and executive, Montgomery is as impressive as public figures come, and makes for a true high note with which to kick off our examination of women in sports, this season on the Bill Bradley Collective.