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Michael Voepel
A number of Authors
Retired sports activities stars Sue Fowl and Megan Rapinoe introduced Friday on social media that, after a decade collectively, they’re now not in a relationship.
“There actually is not any easy or straightforward solution to share this information,” they wrote on an Instagram submit. “After plenty of thought, we have made the choice to separate as a pair.
“This hasn’t been a straightforward determination, but it surely’s one we have made collectively, with a lot love, respect, and take care of one another.”
Fowl, 45, received 4 WNBA titles in her 19 seasons within the league, all with the Seattle Storm. She additionally received 5 Olympic gold medals with the U.S. nationwide crew. The previous UConn star was the No. 1 choose within the 2002 WNBA draft after successful two NCAA titles with the Huskies.
Rapinoe, 40, performed for the USA girls’s soccer crew in successful the FIFA Girls’s World Cup title in 2015 and 2019. She additionally received the 2012 Olympic gold medal with Crew USA.
Fowl retired from the WNBA after the 2022 season, and Rapinoe from the NWSL on the finish of the 2023 season.
“We have shared an entire life over the past decade, via massive moments and in quiet ones, and that’s one thing we’ll at all times carry with us,” Fowl and Rapinoe wrote.
“We’re so grateful for this unimaginable group that has held us up, welcomed us in, and supported us precisely as we’re.”
Fowl, who was inducted into the Naismith Corridor of Fame final 12 months, is now the managing director of the U.S. girls’s nationwide basketball crew.
Fowl and Rapinoe additionally had enterprise pursuits collectively, together with a podcast referred to as “A Contact Extra.”
“[To] construct a community round it has been an amazing pleasure,” they wrote of the podcast. “The conversations, the laughter, the connection — it means greater than we are able to put into phrases. Whereas this chapter of doing the podcast collectively is ending, what we have constructed with you is not.”
