WNBA’s Caitlin Clark Breaks Silence After Not Making Olympic Team

Caitlin Clark has no dangerous blood with Group USA after she didn’t make the 2024 Paris Olympics girls’s basketball crew.

“I’m excited for the ladies [who] are on the crew,” Clark, 22, advised Indy Star sports activities reporter Chloe Peterson on Sunday, June 9. “I do know it’s essentially the most aggressive crew on the planet and I do know it may have gone both manner with me being on the crew [or] me not being on the crew. I’m excited for them.”

Clark continued, “I’m going to be rooting them on to win gold. I used to be a child that grew up watching the Olympics, so it’ll be enjoyable to look at them.”

Clark additional famous that she had “no disappointment” that she didn’t make the crew.

“I feel it offers you one thing to work for. You realize, it’s a dream and hopefully sooner or later I’ll be there,” she mentioned. “I feel it’s just a bit extra motivation … and hopefully in 4 years — when 4 years comes again round — I will be there.”

Group USA has not formally introduced its roster for the ladies’s basketball squad on the summer season Video games however a number of retailers reported on Saturday, June 8, that Clark was not among the many athletes. In line with NBC Information, Brittney Griner, A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart and extra will characterize the USA.

Cameron Brink, who was a member of Clark’s WNBA draft class, Rhyne Howard, Hailey Van Lith and Cierra Burdick will even compete for the U.S. within the girls’s 3 x 3 occasion.

Clark, in the meantime, had obtained an official cellphone name from the crew’s administrators earlier than the information made headlines.

“They referred to as me and let me know in the beginning got here out, which was actually respectful of them and I appreciated that,” Clark mentioned. “They did the identical for each woman that made the crew or each woman that didn’t make the crew, you recognize, there’s a number of gamers within the Olympic pool. So, it wasn’t like I used to be the one one they needed to name. They needed to make fairly a couple of calls.”

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Clark was one of many prime collegiate athletes for the College of Iowa’s crew, propelling the ladies’s squad to the Ultimate 4 earlier this yr. On the finish of the season, Clark declared for the WNBA Draft. She was the No. 1 choose, signing with the Indiana Fever.

“I obtained somewhat anxious there earlier than the choose,” Clark gushed to ESPN after the draft spherical. “However, greater than something, I’m simply grateful and fortunate to have my household right here and my mates over there, coaches up right here. I’ve dreamed of this second since second grade and it’s taken a number of onerous work [and] a number of ups and downs, however greater than something, [I’m] making an attempt to soak it in.”