Caitlin Clark says the impression she has had on girls’s sport has been “the good half” of her journey as her record-breaking collegiate basketball profession got here to an in depth.
American Clark, 22, has scored over 3,900 factors, greater than any male or feminine faculty athlete in historical past.
Her performances for the Iowa Hawkeyes this season have additionally led to record-breaking viewing figures in America.
“Everyone sees the viewership numbers,” mentioned level guard Clark.
“Once you’re given the chance, girls’s sport thrives and that is been the good half for me on this journey.
“We began the season taking part in in entrance of 55,000 folks, now we’re ending it in entrance of 15 million folks on TV. It simply continues to get higher and higher and that is by no means going to cease.
“Once you proceed to provide them the platform, issues like this are simply going to proceed to occur.”
Clark scored 30 factors for the Hawkeyes as they suffered a 87-75 defeat by South Carolina in Sunday’s ultimate.
Her particular person achievements, together with beating Pete Maravich’s 54-year-old faculty basketball scoring document and capturing essentially the most three-pointers in a single season, have led to a rise in girls’s basketball followers, dubbed the ‘Caitlin Clark Impact’.
She can be predicted to be the number-one choose within the WNBA draft by the Indiana Fever later this month, and will be a part of the US squad for the Paris Olympics.
“It doesn’t matter what sport it’s, imagine in them the identical, spend money on them the identical, and issues are going to thrive,” mentioned Clark.
“You see it with different sports activities. Proceed to speculate time, cash and assets for these folks and provides them the alternatives. I believe that is what is going on to drive girls’s sports activities in future.
“Folks will bear in mind the moments that they shared at one in all our video games or watching on TV, and the way excited their daughter or son acquired about watching girls’s basketball.
“That is fairly cool, these are issues that imply essentially the most to me.”