WNBA, Austin and Fran Harris

Fran Harris wants the WNBA to consider Austin
Former Texas Longhorns forward Fran Harris, who led the women's basketball team to its first and only national championship in 1986, is gunning for Austin to be a future WNBA expansion site.Why it matters: Austin has long been a college football town,
Exclusive: Texas women's basketball champion pushing for WNBA expansion in Austin
Fran Harris has accomplished no shortage of impressive feats throughout her time in the sports world. Harris led The University of Texas at Austin to its first national championship in 1986, played for the Houston Comets in the WNBA's inaugural season in ...
WNBA expansion to Austin? Former UT star Fran Harris has a plan to bring another team to Texas
Fran Harris has a plan. The former Texas women’s basketball great has the financial backing, she insists. She’s got the support of the school administration and the city’s mayor and has had constructive conversations with the sports investment group that built the possible arena home.
Will Austin, Texas win the bid for the 16th WNBA expansion team?
Yahoo Sports women basketball writer Cassandra Negley is joined by Fran Harris, former women’s college basketball and WNBA champion, to talk about Fran's involvement in submitting a bid for the WNBA’s 16th team to land in Austin,
Fran Harris wants the WNBA to consider Austin for expansion
Harris has spent the past year raising capital and working on Austin's submission packet to position the city as the WNBA's next team location.
Former Longhorns star leads effort to bring WNBA expansion franchise to Austin
More than a dozen cities are being considered for the WNBA's next expansion franchise, which is expected to begin playing by 2028.
Texas Longhorn alum aims to bring WNBA team to Austin
Former NCAA champ and UT Longhorn standout Fran Harris is raising capital and working on Austin's submission packet to bring the 16th team to the capital city, with the WNBA's commissioner expressing confidence that the sport will expand to 16 teams by 2028.
Meet the former WNBA star behind the league’s Austin’s expansion bid
So, Harris has spent the last several years rallying the community, and preparing for a WNBA expansion bid in Austin. That bid is underway, and in turn, Austin has emerged as one
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Watch: Simon Harris and Mary Lou McDonald dance with Gift Shop owner on campaign trail
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