The first women's basketball signature shoe ever — 1995, two years before the WNBA played a game. Every women's signature on this site traces to this one.
A two-way wing they called 'the female Jordan' — scoring, defense, and all-court dominance before the WNBA even existed.
Before A'ja, before Sabrina, before Caitlin — there was the Air Swoopes, the first women's basketball signature in history, launched in 1995 before the WNBA existed. Six models followed. The line has been dormant since a lone 2017 retro of the Air Swoopes 2, and Swoopes herself has publicly lobbied Nike to bring it back amid the current women's signature boom. The industry consensus: it's not if, it's when.
Retro announcements land in the same alert as new signatures.