Caitlin Clark is ‘Time’ magazine’s 2024 Athlete of the Year in a “historic” year
After breaking into the WNBA in a “historic” way, Caitlin Clark was named Athlete of the Year 2024 by ‘Time’ magazine
New York, Dec 10 (EFE).- Life continues to smile at Caitlin Clark. After becoming the rookie of the season in the women’s professional league WNBA and take your team, Indiana Feverto the playoffs, now it has been named Athlete of the Year by ‘Time’ magazine.
Without a doubt a “historic” year as the basketball player herself described 2024 in statements to ‘Time’.
clark happens in the American magazine’s award to the Argentine star Lionel Messi which in 2023 achieved the title of ‘Time’.
Precisely the magazine placed clark above stars like Messi either Michael Jordan for her ability to “alter the trajectory of a team sport in just five months” when announcing the award to the 22-year-old, 183 centimeters tall athlete.
‘Time’ justified this Tuesday that both Messi’s revolution in Major League Soccer (MLS) and Jordan’s in the NBA occurred after many years of sports career.
“While other female athletes have pushed the boundaries of human achievement and created their own cultures —Serena Williams, Simone Biles and the stars of US women’s national soccer team–, the Clark phenomenon remains unprecedented,” he added.
The magazine identified clark as an “emerging icon of American sports,” capable of making shots “with a degree of difficulty never before witnessed” in women’s basketball.
“His signature shots from 30 feet, near center field, over the logos of teams across the United States are similar to home runs (in baseball), hanging high in the air,” ‘Time’ explained.
His arrival at the top of American basketball is full of records.
In his last year in college basketball, he broke the previous absolute scoring record that Pete Maravich had held for almost 60 years: Clark added 3,685 points in 130 games, surpassing Maravich’s 3,667 in 83 games between 1967 and 1970.
And the college championship game between Clark’s Iowa team and South Carolina averaged 18.9 million viewers, the second most popular women’s sporting event in US television history. .USA without counting the Olympic Games.
