Billionaire Michele Kang has made a splash in women’s sports with her goal of professionalizing women’s soccer. She owns the Washington Spirit, the London City Lionesses, OL Lyonnes, and in 2024 launched Kynisca, a women’s sports organization to power it all. Now, Fortune is the first to report, she’s launching the Kang Women’s Institute, an organization within U.S. Soccer’s Soccer Forward foundation. It promises to research the needs of female athletes, from their specific requirements for injury recovery and reentry after pregnancy to best practices for coaching girls in youth sports.

Kang started this work through her own organization; after buying three clubs, she noticed problems compared to men’s sports. “Why do we have more ACL injuries? Why don’t we have enough female coaches and

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