The WNBA is in the middle of negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement that will be made richer because of players like Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers. They have brought excitement and eyeballs to women’s basketball.
After being limited to 13 games in the 2025 WNBA season because of a series of soft tissue injuries, Clark said she’s ‘finally be back to a hundred percent’ following her first Team USA senior training camp practice in December.
‘I put together a pretty incredible stretch of never missing a game,’ Clark said. ‘The fact is when you’re a professional athlete, it’s going to come at some point. That’s just how it goes. I think it’s honestly taught me more than I’ve probably ever learned through the course of my career of how to take care of your body, how to get right, how to stay healthy and then just taking time for yourself.’
Here’s a look at a few of Clark’s biggest accomplishments as she celebrates her birthday:
WNBA achievements
- Named 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year
- Two-time WNBA All-Star
- Set WNBA records for points, assists and 3-pointers by a rookie
- Had the first triple-double by a rookie in WNBA history
- Set the WNBA single-game record for assists with 19
NCAA achievements
- Set the all-time NCAA Division I scoring record with 3,951 points
- Set the NCAA Division I career 3-pointers record with 548
- Set the NCAA Division I single-season record for 3-pointers wtih 201
- Set the NCAA Tournament Division I record for career points (491), assists (152) and 3-pointers (78)
- Iowa’s career leader in points and assists
- Most 30-point games by any man or woman in Division I basketball in the past 25 seasons
Caitlin Clark awards
- AP Female Athletes of the Year (2024)
- Two-time AP college basketball player of the year (2023, 2024)
- Two-time Naismith College player of the year (2023, 2024)
- Three-time unanimous first-team All-American (2022-24)
- Two-time Big Ten female athlete of the year (2023, 2024)
- No.22 retired by Iowa Hawkeyes
Cydney Henderson contributed to this report.
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