Caitlin Clark smashed record after record in her debut WNBA season.
The Indiana Fever superstar started all 40 regular-season games in the 2024 season, and finished with an incredible string of accolades – as well as the Rookie of the Year award.
Clark broke multiple records in her WBA rookie seasonGetty
Clark has vowed to become a professional golfer in the WNBA off seasonGetty Images
She scored the most points by a rookie in WNBA history, provided the most assists, and also set the single-season turnover record.
Clark became the first player in the league’s history to be named Player and Rookie of the Month in the same month, and is the fastest WNBA player to reach 100 three-pointers – doing so in just 34 games.
It’s hardly surprising, then, that she became the first rookie since Candace Parker in 2008 to be named to the All-WNBA first team on Wednesday.
She joined Aj’a Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier and Alyssa Thomas in the starting five – an award that will bring Clark and the other players a $10,300 bonus.
Clark earned 52 first-team votes and was on 66 of the 67 ballots that were submitted by a national media panel.
She is the fifth rookie ever to have that honour, joining Parker, Sue Bird, Tamika Catchings and Diana Taurasi.
While the 22-year-old dominated on a personal level for the Fever, her team finished with a regular-season record of 6-6 and were eliminated from the playoffs in the first round by the Connecticut Sun.
As the post-season concludes, Clark has found herself with a bit of free time, and has decided to fill that by working on her golf game.
In fact, she even joked that her goal for the off-season was to become a professional golfer.
Earlier this week, she went viral after being filmed nearly hitting a hole-in-one while on the course with Fever teammate Lexie Hull.
Clearly a multi-talented sportswoman, Clark has now been handed the ultimate test in her golfing dream.
The basketball star will join the LPGA’s pro-am event in Florida next month, where she will tee off alongside 10-time major champion Annika Sorenstam and World No 1 Nelly Korda.
She is scheduled to play in the pro-am competition on Wednesday, 13 November at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair.
In addition to playing alongside tournament host and 10-time major winner Sorenstam, Golfweek reports that Clark will play nine holes with Korda in the 18-hole pro-am.
The World No 1, a two-time winner of the Pelican, had to pull out of two LPGA events in Asia this week due to neck injury.
Clark’s presence on the golf course next month is likely to cause a major stir at what would normally be a quiet day at the office.
And given that she’ll be surrounded by some of the top talent in the women’s game, her dream of becoming a golf pro in the off-season might not be that far-fetched.
Clark’s great rival Angel Reese – who missed the final weeks of her rookie season through injury – was overlooked in the All-WNBA honors.
Sabrina Ionescu led the way in the Second Team, the news coming just hours before she fired the gamewinner for the New York Liberty to take a 2-1 lead in the WNBA Finals.
Asked about the First Team snub, Ionescu insisted she had just delivered a withering putdown
“That was just a great All-WNBA second team performance.”
