Iowa basketball player Caitlin Clark proves to be one to watch

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Caitlin Clark goes strong to the rim in a game against Michigan.

Kimora Castleberry, Reporter

Caitlin Clark one of the best players in women’s collegiate basketball.

She plays for Iowa and is a great player and has received many awards such as being a McDonald’s All-American, being ranked #4 on ESPN, and being named pre-season Player of the Year. During her freshman year in Iowa, she has become a necessary person to watch in women’s college basketball.

“I’m like, ‘Who…is this? She is nice,’” an anonymous source said online in Hawk Central. “’Oh, she’s the best player in the country.’ I was like, ‘Oh…I see it now.’ When you walk in and you don’t know who anyone is, and they’re like, ‘Yo, that’s the best player in the country right there,’ that … hits you out of nowhere, like ‘Let me focus in on her.'”

In Clark’s years of growing up she was raised in West Des Moines, Iowa, along with her two brothers, Blake, who also plays for Iowa as a football player, and Collin.

“I was always that annoying little sister,” Clark said in a Hawk Central article. “They didn’t really want me around much, so I had to kind of hold my own if I wanted to be with them.”

She began playing basketball when she was 5-years-old. Clark played on a team and she was the only girl on an all-boys team. As a young girl, she formed a deep love for basketball. That love only grew during her middle school years. Now, she still holds the same love for it as she did before.

She is now a walking highlight reel and has gained national attention for her amazing game performances–most famously when she hit 2,000 points, making her way into the record books by tying with former Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne, according to the information given on ESPN Stats & Info.

“Elena Delle Donne, she was a person I idolized growing up,” Clark said in a NCAA article. “I have her shoes in my locker.”

Clark is a women’s athlete that is going to go down in history. She grows in her way of playing as time passes. She’s definitely a player to watch.