The Caitlin Clark impact was on full show on the Indiana Fever guard’s outing at an LPGA occasion this previous week, when Clark was mobbed by followers for autographs and even had skilled golfers asking for footage.
Seeing professional gamers from a completely completely different sport welcome Clark with open arms solely speaks to the 22-year-old’s influence after only one yr within the WNBA. Clark was already making headlines throughout her school hooping days with the Iowa Hawkeyes, however she soared to a a lot larger degree of fame for her thrilling and dynamic play on the court docket in her historic rookie season with the Fever.
Clark’s agent, Erin Kane of Excel Sports activities, not too long ago supplied a preview of the WNBA star’s future as a bona fide world phenomenon, evaluating Clark to different trailblazing feminine sports activities icons similar to Serena Williams and Simone Biles.
“So far as purchasers like Caitlin, she’s one in all one. And so it truly is nearly setting the market,” Kane said. “There’s a handful of gamers which have ignited this degree of pleasure by being unimaginable at what they do, but in addition it’s how they do it. It’s Serena Williams, or the enduring athletes (like) Simone Biles, particularly when it’s girls. And Caitlin’s a type of. It’s like how she performs the sport actually captured the eye of a a lot, a lot broader fanbase, and so if you’re going to market, these are the comps you’re pondering of—a Serena or Simone or Tiger Woods, who modified golf, as a result of she’s altering girls’s basketball.”
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Kane additionally represents a number of different WNBA stars together with Napheesa Collier and Arike Ogunbowale. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say Clark is her most marketable consumer to this point, because it appears anyplace Clark goes, eyes will comply with.
