Mo
Bennett

She has already done
the hard version.

Mo Bennett plays defensive end and tight end for the Golden State Storm in the Women's National Football Conference, and she plays the club's flag football at rush, safety and receiver. The Storm played its first ever game in March 2026 with a roster of 55, of whom 41 were rookies. She finished that season as a First Team All Pro, twice the club's Defensive Player of the Week, and first on the team in sacks.

What makes her unusual is not one season. It is that she keeps arriving in a new arena and winning in it. She was a scholarship guard at Georgia Tech for four years and a senior co captain in the Atlantic Coast Conference. She served four years in the United States Coast Guard and was named her service's female athlete of the year. She won a national championship in the Military Basketball Association and took the finals most valuable player award. She then spent four seasons in professional basketball and was an all star in every one of them.

She reached a professional roster in a sport she never played in college, and was All Pro in her first season of it.

Position

Defensive end and tight end, number 25

Also

Storm flag football, number 10, at rush, safety and receiver

Club

Golden State Storm, Oakland, California

League

Women's National Football Conference

Hometown

Statesboro, Georgia

Also listed as

Shaniqua Bennett on the Storm stats page

Eighteen years,
four uniforms.

Every line here is a selection, a medal or a record. Open a chapter to read it.

Six reasons that are not
a follower count.

1. The story is the asset

   Four careers across two sports, ending in an All Pro selection in the one she picked up last. That is a campaign, not a caption.

2. A veteran, with the record to match

   Four years in the Coast Guard and her service's female athlete of the year. For any brand with a veterans programme, she is the real thing rather than a themed post in November.

3. A Division I credential

   Georgia Tech, the Atlantic Coast Conference, a senior co captain on the programme's first Sweet 16 team. It travels outside football.

4. She plays both ways, and plays flag

   Defensive end, tight end, and flag football at rush, safety and receiver. Flag is on the programme for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and joined the NCAA emerging sports list in January 2026, so the category is growing under her.

5. She is local to a real market

   The Storm play in Oakland. A brand buying her buys the Bay Area, not a national average.

6. The category is still open

   She has no conflicting deals in most categories. A first mover gets exclusivity at a price that will not exist in three seasons.

Women's sport is where
the money moved.

The WNFC is in its seventh season in 2026, with sixteen teams and players from nineteen countries. It is outfitted by adidas and Riddell, and its championship aired on ESPN2. This is not a startup league looking for its first sponsor.

The inventory.

Everything below is hers to give. Anything that carries a club mark is handled separately and in writing, which is explained in section 07.

• Social contentPosts, story sets and short form video across her channels, shot to a brief or to her own voice.
• Original photographyA content day with a photographer, producing a library the brand owns for an agreed term.
• AppearancesClinics, camps, store openings, panels and meet and greets, in the Bay Area or travelling.
• Training and game day kitMarks on apparel she controls, including training wear, travel kit and flag football.
• SpeakingVeterans programmes, women in sport, and youth work. She has a real story for all three.
• Category exclusivityAvailable, and priced accordingly, for a brand that wants the category shut.

Four ways in.

These are structures, not a menu. Every one is cut to fit the brief before anything is signed. Open a package to see what sits inside it.

There is no published rate card in women's football at player level, so a fee is set against the brief rather than read off a list. Ask Eight88 and you get a number the same week.

Four things before
you ask.

A brand finds these out eventually. It is better that they come from us first.

1. 01

   Club marks are not hers to give

   Her league agreement does not permit Golden State Storm logos, wordmarks or insignia in commercial creative without prior written approval from the franchise ownership group. Every package is built around imagery she controls, and where a brand wants club marks we seek that approval in writing before anything is agreed, not after.

2. 02

   Categories are cleared before signature

   Conflicts are checked against her existing commitments and the club's before a term sheet goes out. Nobody discovers a clash after the campaign is booked.

3. 03

   She approves every agreement herself

   Eight88 negotiates. She signs. No deal is presented to her as done.

4. 04

   No supplement deal unless it is certified

   Nothing in the supplement category is accepted unless the product is certified batch by batch under NSF Certified for Sport or Informed Sport. This protects her eligibility and it protects the brand from being the reason she loses it.

Two sports,
fifteen years apart.

Career honours are as supplied by the athlete. Season figures and the All Pro selection are as published by the Women's National Football Conference and the Golden State Storm. Market figures are attributed above. Nothing on this page is an Eight88 estimate.