Denver NWSL home-grown President Jen Millet

Article posted by Coliseum, April 28^th, 2025

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Denver’s (US) National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) club is turning to a Cherry Creek High School (the oldest of seven high schools in the Cherry Creek School District in the Denver Metropolitan area) and CU Boulder (University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, US) graduate as its first employee.

‘THE DENVER POST’ stated that the team announced Jen Millet as its President recently. Millet, who was previously the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the NWSL team Bay FC and worked for six years for the National Basketball Association (NBA) team Golden State Warriors before that will be in charge of all business operations for the Denver club that’s set to debut in 2026.

The Denver NWSL team is a future American professional soccer team based in Denver, Colorado (US) that will compete in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) starting in 2026. It was founded as an expansion team on January 30^th, 2025.

The Denver NWSL team’s current home ground is a temporary stadium in Centennial, Colorado. This stadium will be used for their first two seasons while their permanent stadium at Santa Fe Yards in Denver is being constructed with the permanent stadium expected to open in the Spring of 2028. The temporary stadium in Centennial seats 12,000 fans.

Midtown Manhattan (US)-based the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) is a women’s professional soccer league and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. The league comprises 14 teams (16 in 2026).

‘THE DENVER POST’ further stated that Millet says her vision for women’s professional sports aligned with that of the Denver NWSL ownership which is headlined by the club Governor Rob Cohen and that drew her back to Colorado.

Maintained Millet, “The scope that they’ve accomplished so far is super impressive. That was very attractive for me. The big differentiator also is that they were able to get a stadium project to the stage that it’s at and the training facility project to the stage that it’s at. When we talk about building a global sports brand those are key things for a men’s or women’s club to be able to have in their arsenal. They demonstrate to me that this ownership group is not just words but actions.”

Millet, a 51-year-old New Jersey native, moved to Colorado in eighth grade. She was a three-sport athlete at the Cherry Creek (soccer, basketball and track) where she graduated in 1992 before going on to earn a degree in English language and literature/letters from the CU.

She has two sisters who live in Colorado one of whom, Jackie Millet, is the former Mayor of Lone Tree (Municipality in Colorado). Jen frequently spent her holidays in the State and that personal connection, in conjunction with her vibing with Cohen & Co (one of America’s most recommended tax and accounting firms) prompted her to make the leap from Bay FC to Denver’s to-be-named NWSL club.

Millet will oversee marketing, merchandise, ticketing, partnerships, and venue operations for Denver NWSL in addition to the Finance, Human Resources and Legal Departments.

She recalled going to the Rockies’ (the Major League Baseball [MLB] team Colorado Rockies) inaugural game at the 76,125-capacity Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado (US) in 1993 and hopes to have a similar energy (albeit in a smaller venue) for the Denver NWSL opener next year. The club will play its first couple of seasons at a 12,000-seat modular stadium in Centennial before moving to its permanent home in a 14,500-seat stadium at the Santa Fe Yards in Denver.

Added Millet, “Next year, I hope it’s a soldout crowd full of the demographics of Denver – different age groups, ethnicities. I hope there’s massive excitement from the fans about being a part of it and we make it feel like they’re at a historic moment. They will bring that energy and it will be my job and the team’s job to make sure the experience around them supports that and ignites that. I hope in that moment we will have people 20, 30 years later talking about how they went to the first NWSL match in Denver.”

With Millet’s hiring the Denver NWSL’s next move is to tab a General Manager (GM). That GM search is ongoing with that hire expected to be announced soon.

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