She Got Game: Maren Morris to Perform & Sit for a Chat at 2025 espnW: Women + Sports Summit

Maren Morris volition execute and beryllium down for a keynote speech astatine the 2025 espnW: Women + Sports Summit, Billboard tin exclusively reveal.

The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter volition archetypal instrumentality the signifier for a speech with sports newsman Sarah Spain earlier performing astatine the event, which goes down Oct. 28-30 astatine the Ojai Valley Inn successful Ojai, California.

Now successful its 16th year, the espnW: Women + Sports Summit aims to bring unneurotic “trailblazers crossed sports, business, entertainment, and civilization to thrust alteration and accidental for women successful sports.” Programming includes keynote speakers and conversations, sheet discussions, and interactive breakout sessions, capped by evening amusement and gatherings. Wellness and sports activities (of course) are besides woven passim the day. And if you can’t marque it to Ojai, each the Summit sessions volition watercourse crossed espnW and ESPN integer and societal platforms.

Last year, Grammy-winning instrumentalist Brittany Howard closed the Summit with a keynote performance.

Morris released her 4th album, D R E A M S I C L E, backmost successful May and is presently connected a circuit successful enactment of the project, wrapping astatine the extremity of this month. Her biggest hits see 2 Billboard Hot 100 apical 20 entries: “The Middle” with Zedd and Grey (No. 5 successful 2018) and “The Bones” (No. 12 successful 2020). Both songs topped the Adult Pop Airplay and Adult Contemporary charts, portion “The Middle” went to No. 1 connected Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (for a staggering 33 weeks), Radio Songs (nine weeks) and Pop Airplay (seven weeks) and “The Bones” was No. 1 connected Hot Country Songs (19 weeks) and Country Airplay (two weeks).

While her vocation began successful state euphony — with 4 Country Airplay chart-toppers and 5 wins apiece astatine the ACM Awards and CMA Awards — Morris formally announced her exit from the genre successful 2023, telling the Los Angeles Times: “I thought I’d similar to pain it to the crushed and commencement over, but it’s burning itself down without my help.”

As for her emotion of sports, during the pandemic, Morris picked up tennis and past acceptable up a question pickleball tribunal for her unit during her 2022 tour. “Since I was inactive getting to cognize the unit members who were caller to my team, pickleball was a large mode to get the unit unneurotic and enslaved implicit a crippled that is entertaining and societal successful nature,” Morris told Pickleball Magazine successful a 2022 interview. “…It’s conscionable amusive to locomotion past aft a fewer hours and spot the unit playing and they’ve picked up their ain game. It makes maine truthful blessed it’s caught connected and possibly they’ll spell location and play during the week erstwhile they’re disconnected the road.”

You tin find much details astir the 2025 espnW: Women + Sports Summit presented by Toyota here.