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 photos.
Seeing professional gamers from an entirely totally 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 faculty hooping days with the Iowa Hawkeyes, however she soared to a a lot increased 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, just lately supplied a preview of the WNBA star’s future as a bona fide world phenomenon, evaluating Clark to different trailblazing feminine sports activities icons reminiscent of Serena Williams and Simone Biles.
“So far as shoppers like Caitlin, she’s one among 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 unbelievable at what they do, but additionally it’s how they do it. It’s Serena Williams, or the long-lasting athletes (like) Simone Biles, particularly when it’s ladies. And Caitlin’s a kind of. It’s like how she performs the sport actually captured the eye of a a lot, a lot broader fanbase, and so while you’re going to market, these are the comps you’re considering of—a Serena or Simone or Tiger Woods, who modified golf, as a result of she’s altering ladies’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 thus far, because it appears anyplace Clark goes, eyes will observe.
