WATCH: Megan Rapinoe’s Jewish Girlfriend, B’ball Star Sue Bird, Play HER Game

Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe’s Jewish girlfriend, is a goddess on the court. Image by youtube

By Helen Chernikoff July 12, 2019

“Power couple” is the proper descriptor.

Meagan Rapinoe: The captain of Reign FC, the world champion women’s soccer team.

Sue Bird: Point guard for the Seattle Storm, a three-time world champion and a two-time WNBA champion. She’s got four Olympic gold medals — and her father is a Russian Jew. She was raised with both Judaism and Christianity in Syosset, Long Island.

Schmooze editor Jenny Singer has written here that Bird is the Megan Rapinoe of basketball, but maybe we also need to consider that Rapinoe is the Sue Bird of soccer.

At least, that’s the question that must be considered after watching this 2018 highlight reel, which shows Bird kicking it on the court. Click through here and wait for your jaw to drop.

Contact Helen Chernikoff at [email protected] or on Twitter @thesimplechild

Helen Chernikoff is the Forward’s News Editor. She came to the Forward from The Jewish Week, where she served as the first web director and created both a blog dedicated to disability issues and a food and wine website. Before that, she covered the housing, lodging and logistics industries for Reuters, where she could sit at her desk and watch her stories move the stock market. Helen has a Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University and a BA in History and French from Amherst College. She is also a rabbinical school dropout. Contact her at [email protected] and follow her on Twitter at @thesimplechild.

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