As Teresa Resch began one of the more monumental tasks of starting a professional sports team, she thought of an early conversation with a colleague. The identity she set out to design and find as the Toronto WNBA expansion franchise’s first president will be talked about for the next 30-plus years.
But so, too will the story of it. What do you want that story to be? the colleague asked.
“We want that to be the story of Canada,” Resch said in an interview with Yahoo Sports on Thursday. “We want to be a story of our fans.