Iowa’s Caitlin Clark has declared for the WNBA draft as we speak, forgoing her closing 12 months of eligibility, she confirmed in a submit on her social media account.
“While this season is far from over and we have a lot more goals to achieve, it will be my last one at Iowa,” Clark wrote in her submit. “It is impossible to fully express my gratitude to everyone who has supported me during my time Iowa– my teammates, who made the last four years the best; my coaches, trainers and staff who always let me be me; Hawkeye fans who filled Carver every night; and everyone who came out to support us across the country, especially the young kids.”
Clark has been probably the most dominant girls’s school basketball gamers in current historical past. In 4 years, Clark has collected many awards and titles and damaged numerous information. Most not too long ago, she surpassed Kelsey Plum for many factors in NCAA Division I girls’s basketball historical past (3,527 whole factors) and most not too long ago, Lynette Woodward’s whole for many factors in major-college girls’s basketball (3,649). Clark at the moment sits 17 factors behind Pete Maravich’s document for many factors on the NCAA DI degree, males’s or girls’s, with one recreation left within the common season.
Along with her scoring prowess, Clark was the Naismith Girls’s Faculty Participant of the 12 months in 2023, the recipient of the John R. Wood Award and received the ESPY for Finest Feminine Faculty Athlete.
Iowa at the moment is second within the Huge 10 and trying to safe a spot within the March Insanity match, a spot the place Clark has but to gather some {hardware}. The closest she got here to a nationwide championship was final season, the place the Hawkeyes misplaced to LSU within the finals.
The WNBA draft will happen on April 15 and lots of consider Clark would be the first general choose, which belongs to the Indiana Fever.
