Women Polo Players Set to Cash in on Coed Team Licensing

In 1999, Brandi Chastain forever changed women's sports at the Women's World Cup by ripping off her team jersey, hands in the air, celebrating their win. The entire stadium catapulted to its feet alive and screaming with joy alongside her in the stunning moment of their amazing feat and win. This powerful moment in history is forever ingrained in our minds with women's sports.

In 2000, the following year, Kimberly Casey Carr, founder of the World Series of Polo, who had been sitting in the Owner's Suite at the match with Sepp Blatter and other execs of FIFA/CONCACAF, took that special moment in history and transferred it out from the soccer stadium's Owner's Suite onto the polo fields of Atlanta for another U.S. victory in women's sports when she featured the first U.S. city pro polo matches between iconic women's polo players on league teams.

Fast forward to today and she's now at the helm of 16 U.S. pro polo co-ed sports teams, cutting deal with blue chip sponsors and establishing the first guaranteed women's pro polo player salaries at $80k each. The women will play alongside the men in the 2020/2021 World Series of Polo Season as they are considered equal athletes on the back of their polo ponies, the horses giving them equal footing in the exhibition of their extreme sports skills. Polo is one of the few sports wherein the athlete is given a performance rating which allows them to play evenly against other athletes, whether male or female, on the field based on their proficiency skill level. Salary caps for the teams are $650K yr and the women pros are guaranteed the same $80K starting salary as all their male team counterparts, a first in U.S. sports history.

A deal was struck between Kimberly Casey Carr and Ralph Lauren which allows significant multi-million dollar licensing opportunities for the 16 pro polo teams by allowing the World Series of Polo to utilize the word "polo" on our all their pro polo sports kits. It also allows for merchandising of items, co-branding opportunities and the ability to turn the sport from an adventurous club sponsored weekend event into a full-time competitive sports event featuring the best young player athletes in the world.

The 16 Pro Polo U.S. City teams are available for licensing for 3 year initial periods. City teams are as follows: Aiken Clubtails, Atlanta Firetails, Boston Emeralds, Chicago Red Skimmers, Charlottesville Violet-tails, D.C. Darners, Dallas Dashers, L.A. Spreadwings, Lexington Blue Skimmers, Miami Gliders, Nashville Spiketails, New York Meadowhawks, Palm Beach Rubyspots, San Diego Sanddragons and the Seattle Pondhawks. Please visit https://www.worldseriesofpolo.com for more team information and licensing inquiries.

World Series of Polo
5 Concourse Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30328
Tel. 561-266-4336
Contact: Kimberly Casey Carr
with media inquiries via email at:
kcc@worldseriesofpolo.com

The World Series of Polo is a pro sports league headquartered in Atlanta, GA. World Series of Polo owns and manages licenses, merchandising, teams and television rights for 16 U.S. City Pro Polo teams participating in 2020/2021 U.S. World Series of Polo.

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