Caitlin Clark opens up about her confidence and early basketball experiences playing against boys, inspiring young girls.
- Clark almost became the MVP of a boy’s basketball league.
- She emphasizes the importance of confidence for young girls.
Caitlin Clark, the young basketball player who was recently featured on Good Morning America, has a beautiful story showing how the game helped her grow as an individual.
Anchor Robin Roberts interviewed the 22-year-old athlete during the Massachusetts Conference for Women in Boston. She recalled how, when she was younger, she almost became the most valuable player in her boys’ basketball league.
Clark recalls her childhood: “I played with boys as a kid, and we never talked about how that was different; it was just normal.”
Finding a girls’ league was a problem, often playing with the boys. She soon discovered that her father, Brent, was a coach in that league and that he knew she was trying to be the MVP.
“We shouldn’t allow a girl to become the best player in the boys’ basketball league.” Well, not all parents saw it that way.
Clark said, “I was just better than all of them,” and the crowd went wild. As she spoke about her childhood, she said, “My parents never told me, ‘You can’t do this or that.'”
Time magazine declared Clark the Athlete of the Year in 2024. She plays on the WNBA side in Indiana Fever.
She brings her popularity to help influence young women to have enough confidence in their abilities to have faith in themselves.
In an interview, Clark commented on self-confidence as the main recipe behind her success so far, saying, “When I have failed, I’ve always remained confident in myself.”
Clark recalled the year that she thought much about her life. She had a good season where she guided the Iowa Hawkeyes to the NCAA Women’s Championship game and was the first overall pick in the WNBA Draft.
For her debut season with the Fever, she played all forty games and recorded 19.2 points, 8.4 assists, 5.7 rebounds, and 1.33 steals per game.
Clark almost won the record for most threes for a season for the WNBA and managed to smash the record by 337 assists.
There are only 48 players in the WNBA, so competition gets tough. “I simply keep telling myself how grateful I am,” she said. It’s clear that many individuals wish they could have been in my shoes.”