Following an exciting year for women’s basketball that culminated in
the WASHINGTON Mystics netting their first-ever WNBA title,
newly-appointed WNBA COMMISSIONER CATHY ENGELBERT WILL DISCUSS HER
VISION AND GOALS FOR THE LEAGUE AT A NATIONAL PRESS CLUB HEADLINERS
LUNCHEON ON TUESDAY, March 3.Engelbert was appointed the first
Commissioner of the WNBA last May (previous league leaders held the
title of president), and officially joined the league on July 17.
Engelbert came to the WNBA after more than 30 years at Deloitte,
serving most recently as the company’s first female CEO (and the
first woman to lead a Big Four financial services firm). Engelbert was
also the first woman to serve as chair of the Catalyst Board, a global
nonprofit organization that promotes inclusive workplaces for women,
and the first female Governing Board Chair of the Center for Audit
Quality. Engelbert was recently elected to serve on the Board of
Directors of McDonald’s.
Engelbert received a BS in accounting from Lehigh University, where
she served as a senior captain for the university’s lacrosse and
basketball teams. On the court, she played for Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame coach Muffet McGraw. Engelbert’s father,
Kurt, played for Naismith Hall of Fame coach Jack Ramsay at Saint
Joseph’s University and was drafted in 1957 by the NBA’s Detroit
Pistons.
Lunch will be served in the Club’s Ballroom at 12:30 p.m. Remarks
begin at 1 p.m., followed by a question-and-answer session ending at 2
p.m. Tickets cost $25 for National Press Club members (members may
purchase two tickets at this rate) and $39 for all other non-member
tickets.
For all ticketing-related questions, please email
reservations@press.org. Tickets must be paid for at time of purchase.
To submit a question in advance for the speaker, put WNBA in the
subject line and email to president@press.org. The deadline for
submitting questions in advance is 10 a.m. on the day of the LUNCHEON.
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