Canadian media star Lilly Singh joins Toronto Tempo ownership group

Myles Dichter · CBC Sports

· Posted: May 13, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

A fascinating Toronto Tempo ownership radical grew by 1 connected Tuesday.

Actress, writer and advocator Lilly Singh has joined the WNBA squad arsenic an proprietor and main hype officer, the squad announced.

"I emotion women. I emotion Toronto. Joining the ownership radical of the Tempo is an implicit no-brainer — I can't deliberation of thing other I would alternatively walk my money, clip and hype-woman vigor on," Singh said successful a property release.

Singh joins 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Larry Tanenbaum — the president of Kilmer Sports Ventures, which brought the Tempo to Toronto — successful ownership.

Singh, who has 13.7 million Instagram followers and 1.5 cardinal TikTok followers, is besides president of Unicorn Island, a non-profit which aims to boost divers voices done storytelling and advocacy.

Additionally, Singh has made her people successful sports arsenic founding subordinate of National Women's Soccer League's Angel City FC alongside Williams. She partnered with the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic organizing committee to create logos for the Games.

"I cognize from acquisition that successful each country of the world, 1 happening ever rings true: the affirmative interaction that participating successful sports and the sports assemblage has connected girls and women," Singh said.

'A originative visionary'

As main hype officer, Singh volition beryllium tasked with "cultivating the instrumentality community, curating in-game rituals and celebrating the athletics of women's basketball," per the Tempo's caller release.

Tempo president Teresa Resch said she was excited to person Singh articulation the team.

"Lilly is simply a originative visionary with infectious vigor and enthusiasm," Resch said. "She's been 1 of the earliest and astir vocal supporters of this team, and we're thrilled to person her arsenic portion of our ownership group.

"Her expertise successful online community-building and socially driven storytelling, not to notation her heavy passionateness for this game, this league and this city, volition beryllium perfectly invaluable."

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The summation of Singh comes 3 days earlier the 2025 WNBA play tips disconnected — which besides denotes the unofficial one-year-out marker for the Tempo, who volition statesman play adjacent season.

Toronto does not yet person a caput manager oregon players, but a increasing squad down the scenes present includes 18 people, featuring Resch, wide manager Monica Wright Rogers and others.

The Tempo volition play retired of Coca-Cola Coliseum successful Toronto portion hosting definite regular-season games successful cities crossed Canada.

Here's betting that Singh, the team's authoritative hype woman, volition present beryllium contiguous astatine galore of them.