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Allie Quigley and her wife, Courtney Vandersloot, pose with a trophy after Quigley won the 3-Point Contest during halftime of the 2021 WNBA All-Star Game at Michelob ULTRA Arena on July 14, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Baby Jana is the newest member of their team!
Less than a week from the start of the 2025 WNBA season, the newest member of the Chicago Sky family was announced to the world.
Chicago Sky guard Courtney Vandersloot and her basketball star wife, Allie Quigley, revealed the birth of their first baby together in an exclusive with People.
Although the happy couple waited until Mother’s Day to break the news, Jana Christine Vandersloot Quigley was born on April 8.
"We are over the moon to welcome our baby girl to the world," Vandersloot, 36, and Quigley, 38, told the publication.
"We have been dreaming of this moment for a long time, and it’s better than we could have ever imagined!" the pair continued.
Vandersloot and Quigley, who are affectionately known as "VanderQuigs," may be making headlines today for expanding their personal team, but the lovebirds also wowed everyone when they became the first married couple to win a professional sports championship together in 2021.
The photos from People show the basketball superstars holding baby Jana — nicknamed "Jacey" — and their dog while smiling at the camera, and in the second photo, they are looking down lovingly at their newest addition.
Vandersloot also posted a carousel of photos of Jana to her Instagram account in honor of her late mother on Mother’s Day. The post included a photo of the baby girl posed asleep on a basketball and one of her wearing a pink lace dress, with a photo of Vandersloot’s mother. Quigley also posted another Ann Getty-style baby photo of Jana smiling while curled up in a nest-like basket.
The brand-new parents initially met while they were both playing basketball in Slovakia, and their teams ended up going head to head. After Quigley’s team won and took home the championship, the two women ended up on the same flight back to the United States, where they were both about to start playing for the Chicago Sky.
At first, they decided to just remain friends, but when the basketball season ended, they started dating. Vandersloot and Quigley tied the knot back in 2018, but kept their relationship out of the public eye for more than five years before announcing their marriage on Instagram.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or talking about horror movies with the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network.
