Caitlin Clark
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 26 Aug
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I would say like, I don't know, life-changing maybe?
I think that's all in a good way. Like, I mean, things just change really fast. Like, as you guys know, like that's just how the world works. And especially with social media, people see a lot of your life, but that's what makes it fun and why I've had so many cool opportunities too. So it's crazy.
Like looking back at a year ago today or around this time, like I was just beginning my senior year of college and obviously, you know, people knew who we were and people attended our games, but it's obviously not on the magnitude that it is now.
yeah so like life just changes fast but that's that's what makes it fun and cool and you know quickly started a new chapter of my life too like moving here to indianapolis and feel lucky i'm still in the midwest i know you guys like the midwest so i think yeah i've been in the midwest my entire life jason's officially an east coaster now philly of all the east coast cities kind of has like some midwest feel to it the most west i don't think philly wants to hear that they'll probably hate that i said that but whatever yeah
They're not going to like that comment. They want to be far from the Midwest. No doubt.
I mean, it's just so unlike any other professional sport, really, from the standpoint of, so I played in the national championship and I basically went to the draft right after it got picked. And then you basically pack up and move. Like you're moving in April. You don't even finish senior year of college. And I guess for you guys, like, what was it? You go to the combine.
How long do you have to prepare for the combine? A few months. And then you get drafted and you still got a little time to get acclimated to the new city. Yeah. For sure. You know, you have camp, whatever. Like it's not like that. Like camp for us is like a week and a half. Let's go play. Yeah. But I think it was good a little bit too. Like you don't have time to overthink things.
Like it's just like boom, boom, boom, boom. Like you're just on to the next. But at the same time, like you don't like, I feel like I never really ended the chapter of college. Like it was just like you left, but maybe that's good. You don't have a lot of time to think about it. So I think that's definitely the weirdest part of,
you know, women's professional basketball and obviously college basketball too. It's just that change, but that's kind of how it has to be too. So it's just different, but I think I feel lucky too, because we had the Olympic break.
So I got a month off in the middle of the season because we had to pause the WNBA season because, you know, the 12 girls go, go and play in the Olympics and everybody else, you're not doing much. So got to like a month off, which I really needed, obviously, because I'd been playing basketball for just a year straight, but yeah,
For sure. And like you come in as a rookie and like you said, like you're trying to figure out a new environment, new teammates. Like you don't want to say too much. You don't want to say too little. And it's just so hard. But like in my scenario and obviously you guys too, like you're already highly thought of. Like people are turning to you to like be something or be someone. So it's hard.
Like you're trying to find your get your feet wet, but also not do too much. And I think that's kind of what I struggled in early on is like, I don't know what to say. I don't know how to say it. I don't know how they're going to react. For not knowing you nailed it. But also like I had a lot of really good vets around me, too. So I feel very grateful for that. And we had a fairly young team, too.
So like people had been through it fairly recently. So they knew how I felt. But like I feel like that definitely is a huge challenge. And that goes for whatever professional sport like you're trying to learn. But also people are looking at you like you got to perform and like be what they drafted you to be. And that can be tough.
Yeah, there was quite a few. Somebody that comes to the top of my head is Tamika Ketchings, who was an MVP in the WNBA. She won their championship here, I think, I want to say 2012, when the Fever won their championship. She was what made the Indiana Fever really good. That was our prime. That was when we were really good. And then after... Tamika retired.
The fever kind of went down a little bit as every team does. Once you're, you know, franchise player retires and moves away from basketball. And she's still really big here in the Indianapolis community. And she was one of the first people to text me after I got picked and still checks in on me. So it's cool.
It's like somebody that's not in your building every single day, but it means so much to your community and to the organization. And to have that, like, she's like a legend, her, her numbers up in the rafters, like that's somebody I idolized and looked up to. And, for her to just take, you know, two seconds to check in on me and see how I'm doing. And, um, that's obviously really special.
So I would certainly say her, um, and we still have that relationship and it's still growing and she still comes around now and then, and her championship trophy that she won, like sits in our locker room. It's like right next to my locker. I'm like, great. The So I have to look at it every day. These are the shoes. It's got like its own like glass case.
Absolutely.
Oh, well, I felt like, so it's crazy. Like I, because of COVID, I could have actually gone back to school for a fifth year.
Well, early on.
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