The Iowa Hawkeyes are set to retire Caitlin Clark’s quantity 22 jersey.
The announcement at Iowa’s end-of-season celebration ceremony comes days after her record-breaking NCAA profession got here to an finish.
She finishes because the all-time main scorer in faculty basketball, totalling 3,951 factors and averaging 28.4 factors, 7.1 rebounds and eight.2 assists.
Clark, 22, is about to affix the WNBA and is projected to be the primary choose within the draft on Monday.
She addressed followers after the announcement was made, saying: “You’ve got all impressed me as a lot as I impressed you, you allowed me to stay out my dream each single day, and for that, I am very grateful. It has been very particular, and this place will at all times be house to me.”
Her faculty profession got here to an finish on Sunday as Iowa got here up brief towards the undefeated South Carolina within the NCAA championship sport.
Clark’s time at Iowa ended and not using a nationwide championship however she collected two main faculty basketball particular person accolades – the Naismith Nationwide Participant of the Yr and Picket Award – for the second consecutive season.
Her affect on ladies’s faculty basketball is not going to be forgotten, with the ultimate pulling in a viewership of 18.9 million, which was greater than the boys’s remaining at 14.8 million.
The Indiana Fever have the primary choose within the 2024 WNBA Draft and are anticipated to pick out Clark at primary.
Her affect can already be seen throughout the league, the place the Fever may have 36 of their 40 video games nationally broadcast in comparison with just one final season.
The WNBA Draft will happen on Monday, 15 April at 19:30 Japanese time (00:30 BST).