The Chicago Sky can’t keep playing from behind.

That has been the franchise’s mantra since winning its lone WNBA title in 2021. As the league experiences an unparalleled boom in investment and popularity, every aspect of the Sky organization — from stadium experience to player resources — is under scrutiny and subject to the same question:

Are the Sky keeping up with the rest of the WNBA?

This season, the Sky quietly took a crucial step toward matching the league’s heightened standards for basketball operations by hiring head athletic trainer Jess Cohen.

A decade ago, Cohen cut her teeth on the Sky’s training staff while she was a doctoral student in physical therapy at Northwestern. Now she has returned with the hope of lifting the team’s sports performance department to the top of

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