JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A new survey from the University of North Florida shows most people in Jacksonville are excited about women\u2019s professional sports and ready to support the city\u2019s new team, Sporting JAX.<\/p>\n
Read: <\/b>Community First Credit Union renovating former Edgewood Bakery into unique Murray Hill branch<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n More than half of voters said they\u2019re interested in women\u2019s sports, with strong support from women and Hispanic residents. Young adults and seniors were the most aware of women\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n The 18\u201324 age group was the most likely to attend games. Over 60% said they\u2019re interested in Sporting JAX and would go to a match.<\/p>\n Ticket price was the biggest factor for fans. Game times and parking also mattered, especially for women and older adults.<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Most voters said women\u2019s sports should get the same attention and funding as men\u2019s. Nearly 90% of women and 70% of men agreed.<\/p>\n UNF researchers say the support is clear, people across all ages and backgrounds are ready to show up for women\u2019s sports in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A new survey from the University of North Florida shows most people in Jacksonville are…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,7381,7380,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,7379,7382],"class_list":{"0":"post-41392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-lakana","13":"tag-lakanamigration","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa","20":"tag-wjax-wokv-partner","21":"tag-wokvshare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114802046016139957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}