Caitlin Clark is an Indiana Fever star, by way of and thru, however this weekend, she’s on Crew USA. Clark is without doubt one of the WNBA gamers who’s representing the purple, white and blue on the 2026 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Germany.
Clark and Crew USA are off to begin, too. They notched a 94-61 win over China on Friday and are advancing.
In the course of the recreation, Clark did not simply win. She made historical past. Are you shocked? You should not be. That is sort of what Clark does.
Caitlin Clark made historical past in her Crew USA debut
Clark really notched just a few milestones. According to Scout Springgate of the Hawkeyes Wire, “Clark dished 11 assists, probably the most by a participant of their FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup debut with the U.S., surpassing Alyssa Thomas’ 9 in opposition to Belgium in 2022.”
Springgate provides that, “Clark additionally had zero turnovers to turn into the primary in Girls’s World Cup historical past to document not less than 10 assists with out a turnover. Clark can be one in all eight gamers to document greater than 10 assists in a Girls’s World Cup recreation for the reason that statistic was formally recorded in 1994.”
That is very spectacular. It is that sort of displaying that may assist Clark when she’s again on the courtroom on Sunday.
“Simply tremendous excited. Being surrounded by 5 folks that have gained gold medals earlier than on the highest degree, you simply attempt to observe their lead and take each little bit of knowledge that they can provide you,” Clark mentioned of her debut recreation with the group, according to Jack Maloney of CBS Sports. “No matter function I’ve, I am gonna are available in and do it to the most effective of my potential and play exhausting. I feel that is what’s so enjoyable about it.”
Crew USA’s subsequent recreation on the World Cup goes up in opposition to Italy on Sunday at 2:45 p.m. ET.
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