Kaitlyn Clark is Time Magazine’s 2024 Athlete of the Year | Video

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Life keeps smiling Caitlin Clark. Becoming Rookie of the Season in the Women’s Professional League VNBA and take your teamIndian fever, in the “playoffs”, now named Athlete of the Year according to the magazine Time.

Without a doubt “historical” year how the basketball player herself qualified 2024 in statements before American edition.

Clark takes place at an American magazine award ceremony for an Argentine star Lionel Messi which in 2023 won the title Time.

It was the magazine that posted Clark is taller than stars like Messi or Michael Jordan for his ability “Change the trajectory of team sports in just five months” when announcing the award 22-year-old athlete, height 183 centimeters.

time justified on Tuesday that both Messi’s revolution in Major League Soccer (MLS) or from Jordan in the NBA happened after long-term 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 the U.S. women’s soccer team—Clark’s phenomenon remains unprecedented.

The magazine named Clark “a new American sports icon” capable of hitting shots “with a complexity that has never been seen before” in women’s basketball.

His signature 30-foot drive from center field above United States team logos is like a home run (in baseball) hanging high in the air.

His rise to the top of American basketball is full of records. In his final year of college basketball broke the previous all-time scoring record it held Pete Maravich almost 60 years: Clark scored 3,685 points in 130 games. surpassing Maravich’s mark of 3,667 in 83 games between 1967 and 1970.

And the final match of the university league between Team Iowa in which Clark was active, and in South Carolina the average was 18.9 million viewersthe second most-watched women’s sporting event in US television history, excluding the Olympics.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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