"The investment is finally matching the talent that these women have had for so long." That's Brittany Mahomes summing up the women's soccer boom — and she's earned the right to say it. She got in when nobody was watching.
In 2020, years before NWSL franchises started commanding headlines and nine-figure valuations, Brittany became co-owner of the Kansas City Current. No wave to ride. No guaranteed return. Just a genuine belief in the players and the city. Patrick joined the ownership group two years later. The franchise is now valued at $325 million — second-highest in the league — and CPKC Stadium, which opened in 2024, stands as the first venue in the world purpose-built for a professional women's sports team.
She wasn't just a fan — she was a player
Most people encounter Brittany Mahomes through a football sideline appearance or a paparazzi shot. The part that gets glossed over: she played. Four years as a forward at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she became the first player in program history to record three hat tricks in a season or career. Then a year playing professionally in Iceland. This isn't someone who married into sports ownership — she came to it through sport itself.
That context matters when she talks about what CPKC Stadium means. "Seeing these girls finally have a building that they can call theirs," she says. "Just seeing the women finally realize that they have their own space and they are worth investing in." It's not a PR line. It's someone who knows what it felt like to not have that.
This year she was inducted into the UT Tyler Athletics Hall of Fame — a moment that pulled her back to the coach who told her to "just be yourself and be the best that you can be." Simple advice that, apparently, stuck.
The World Cup role and what comes next
Brittany is now serving as Yahoo's New Fans Correspondent for Everything But the Score, a World Cup project aimed at bringing newcomers into the game. Given her background, it's an obvious fit — she can talk soccer with depth most celebrity ambassadors simply can't fake.
She's also a mother of three — Sterling (5), Bronze, and Golden — and increasingly open about how parenthood has resharpened her focus. "It's made me more intentional, more purposeful," she says. Less interested in volume, more in alignment. She's gotten better at saying no.
For the Current's odds of continuing their rise in the NWSL, having an ownership group that combines genuine soccer knowledge, financial muscle, and now a growing media platform is a real structural advantage — not just optics. The stadium was the proof of concept. What they build inside it, roster-wise, will determine whether the valuation holds.
"I don't beat Patrick often, but I have beaten him in things — and he would never admit it," she says, on the subject of competition at home. The athlete didn't go anywhere. It just found a new arena.
