Two of the largest stars in girls’s sports activities are teaming it up on the course.
Caitlin Clark, the WNBA celebrity who has taken the world by storm, introduced Monday that she’s going to compete within the Wednesday Pro-Am ahead of The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge, the penultimate occasion on this 12 months’s LPGA schedule. LPGA Hall-of-Famer and 10-time major champion Annika Sorenstam hosts this occasion yearly, which takes place on the Pelican Golf Membership in Belleair, Florida. The event will characteristic 120 gamers competing for a $3.25 million purse.
Along with taking part in within the Professional-Am, Clark will be part of a girls’s management panel on Tuesday, Nov. 12. This event and the corresponding panel will happen throughout Parity Week, an initiative to rejoice and amplify women and girls in sports activities and schooling.
“I really like golf, so the chance to play within the Professional-Am for a event with a legend like Annika Sorenstam’s identify on it’s so thrilling,” Clark stated in a press release.
“I’m trying ahead to seeing all of the LPGA gamers on the driving vary, being a part of the Girls’s Management Summit, and, after all, teeing it up within the pro-am with Annika.”
Clark will arrive within the Tampa Bay space because the reigning WNBA Rookie of the 12 months. However she completed a lot greater than that in her first season as a member of the Indiana Fever. The previous Iowa standout scored probably the most factors ever by a degree guard in a season in WNBA historical past. She set quite a few different WNBA data, which embrace her dispensing 337 assists (8.4 per recreation). On prime of that, she turned the primary WNBA rookie to file two triple-doubles throughout her first season, proof that she is certainly in rarefied air.
“I’ve been following Caitlin’s profession throughout school and now on the WNBA stage, and what she is doing to carry consideration to girls’s sports activities each on and off the courtroom is excellent,” Sorenstam stated.
“I’m excited to fulfill Caitlin and for her to affix us at Pelican Golf Membership in November in what can be an thrilling week for girls’s sports activities.”
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