Ex-USWNT star Megan Rapinoe and WNBA great Sue Bird announce shocking split after 10 years

WNBA fable Sue Bird and erstwhile U.S. women's shot prima Megan Rapinoe announced they person breached up aft 10 years.

The couple, who got engaged successful 2020 but ne'er married, delivered the stunning quality successful a connection connected societal media connected Friday.

"There truly is nary creaseless oregon casual mode to stock this news. After a batch of thought, we’ve made the determination to abstracted arsenic a couple," their associated connection read.

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Megan Rapinoe (L) and Sue Bird be Michael Rubin's Fanatics Super Bowl enactment astatine the Marquee Nightclub astatine The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas connected February 10, 2024 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"This hasn’t been an casual decision, but it’s 1 we’ve made together, with truthful overmuch love, respect, and attraction for each other. We’ve shared a full beingness implicit the past decade, done large moments and successful quiescent ones, and that is thing we’ll ever transportation with us."

Rapinoe, 40, and Bird, 45, shared a podcast together, called "A Touch More," that volition extremity alongside their relationship.

"We are truthful grateful to this unthinkable assemblage that has held america up, welcomed america in, and supported america precisely arsenic we are. So galore of you person reminded us, again and again, wherefore loving retired large matters," the connection read.

"Getting to make A Touch More: The Podcast and physique a web astir it has been a tremendous joy. The conversations, the laughter, the transportation - it means much than we tin enactment into words. While this section of doing the podcast unneurotic is ending, what we’ve built with you isn’t."

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Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe look connected successful the archetypal 4th betwixt the United States and France successful the men's hoops golden medal crippled during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games astatine Accor Arena connected Aug. 10, 2024. (Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports) (Kyle Terada/USA TODAY Sports)

They said they are doing six much peculiar episodes arsenic a farewell to the assemblage successful a video posted Friday to the podcast's YouTube channel. Rapinoe and Bird were not unneurotic successful the video, but were successful abstracted spaces.

Bird already has her ain podcast, "Bird's Eye View," that she said volition beryllium continuing. Rapinoe said she volition beryllium launching her ain podcast aboriginal successful the summer. They launched the podcast successful 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The brace met during the 2016 Rio Olympics, with Rapinoe playing with the U.S. women's shot squad and Bird playing for the U.S. women's hoops squad astatine the time. They went nationalist with their narration successful 2017.

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Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird airs for a photograph during the 2025 WNBA All Star Skills Challenge astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis, Ind., connected July 18, 2025. (Trevor Ruszkowski/Imagn Images)

Bird retired from the WNBA successful the 2022 play pursuing a 21-year career. Rapinoe retired from the U.S. women's nationalist shot squad successful 2023.

"Thank you for being with america done each of it…it means the satellite to us," the connection said. "With truthful overmuch love, Megan and Sue."

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