Caitlin Clark is considerably of multi-sport athlete.
In an interview with ELLE, the WNBA celebrity revealed she had a short stint in tennis, one in all many sports activities the 23-year-old dabbled in when she was youthful.
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Earlier than specializing in basketball, Clark revealed that she performed tennis after being impressed by Serena Williams.
“I cherished Serena Williams,” Clark stated.
“Like she was most likely my favourite athlete of all time. I simply, you recognize, thought she was the best factor ever after which additionally I used to be a younger woman with the ability to look as much as that. I believed that was unimaginable.”
In contrast to the 23-time Grand Slam champion, Clark didn’t turn into a tennis star.
Nevertheless, it wasn’t as a result of she wasn’t adequate, slightly, the other — she discovered it too straightforward.
“I received kicked out of tennis class after I was like 10, in order that didn’t final lengthy,” Clark stated with amusing.
“I received mad on the teacher as a result of I believed it was too straightforward.”
Tennis is not the one sport Clark had her hand in as a teen. She additionally performed softball, volleyball, golf, and soccer.
Her profession in soccer was significantly spectacular as she starred on her highschool group, with footage of her taking part in going viral a couple of months in the past.
Chad Leistikow of HawkCentral took a take a look at the background behind the WNBA phenom’s soccer days and the data is exceptional.
“Clark was busy representing Staff USA within the FIBA Below-16 Americas Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she solely performed in six soccer video games as a highschool freshman,” he wrote.
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“In these half-dozen video games, Clark scored 26 targets. She was the one freshman named first-team all-state.”
In keeping with the stories, scouts rated Clark extraordinarily extremely, and had she centered on the game, they consider she would have gone on to be a profitable soccer star.
“’She was D-I materials in soccer, simply,’ Pearson stated. ‘She did have a technique to go, but when she would have stayed in soccer and made that her No. 1 sport …,'” Leistikow added.
The WNBA Rookie of the 12 months can also be a dab hand at golf, too.
Final October, she performed within the Professional-Am alongside World No.1 Nelly Korda and golf icon Annika Sorenstam.
Clark’s golf coach hailed the 23-year-old’s skill and likewise her need to enhance.
“Throughout the time we have been working, we noticed some drastic adjustments,” Martha Lobby-Faulconer advised Golf Week.
“It’s additionally a part of her DNA… as a result of she’s going to do issues effectively. She needs to be pretty much as good as she will be able to in all the things she touches.
“She’s very pushed and passionate. It’s enjoyable to work together with her… some of these things you possibly can’t train folks, they simply both have it or they don’t.”
Nevertheless, with the brand new WNBA season tipping off in lower than a month, we most likely will not be seeing Clark on the greens anytime quickly.