Caitlin Clark's elementary school teachers watched her grow up.' She wanted to be the best, always.'
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- On a future dreams assignment in third grade, Caitlin Clark said her biggest dream was to be a WNBA players. The former NCAA player of the year with Iowa is about to begin living that dream at the WNBA Draft Monday night, more than likely as a member of the Indiana Fever.
In an exclusive interview IndyStar sports reporter Dana Benbow, Caitlin Clark's teachers from Grade 1 - 6 recall what she was like as a student and stories of her competing against and beating boys players. They all agree, that even years later, they still see that same girl.
"It is like seeing the Caitlin that we knew when she was in our halls." - Sport
They were a part of her journey. So cool! 😎
This is intense and conveys the true spirit of Caitlin Clark's origins from her earliest elementary school years...
Caitlin is so awesome
South Bend, IN in the house! Can't wait for the WNBA to start. I want to see some Pacer basketball legends showing up for Cautlins first Fever home game! Lets's go Fever and Go Pacers! 🏀 Great interview! Thanks.
Nice. Thanks ladies.
Old indian ( american) guy here. I didnt even know who Steph Curry was, until i became a Caitlin groupie last october. lol. They tell me he's almost as good as our Caitlin 🤭
anyway, hopefully this anecdote gives an inkling of her REACH.
If she can "wake" someone like me up, no wonder the little kids are going crazy. Fortunately she's also so level headed and humble at only... 22!
Im from the Philippines and haters dont believe that Caitlin is already globally known. 😅 they even mocked Asians but I couldnt careless. I love CC ❤
@@alegna_ennazus cool! 😀 Caitlin is a global unifying force!
@@alegna_ennazus Philippines loves basketball
Lmfao the desperate campaign of yt America to make Clark the face of a black dominated sport is hilarious yo
Great job ladies a credit to your profession ..
Love the interview! Caitlin's intelligence is obvious by how she speaks. She knows when she has to act like a lady also. I would have had a hard time with that. I grew up a tomboy and my only competition were the boys at school. I always got picked before almost all the boys, they knew I liked rough stuff. She copies some of the things she has witnessed in the NBA, getting people to get loud or something similar. I absolutely adore her. It has been so much fun watching her put NCAA women's basketball on the map, creating and breaking records all over the sport.. Women and men, boys and girls, ALL LOVE HER and LOOK UP TO HER. I loved finding out how she split her brother's head open requiring 4 staples as they both went running after a loose ball in the basement. She pushed him into the wall. I can't begin to guess how her parents reacted. It was great that the entire family was there with her last night. Connor was there, didn't realize that until Kate was drafted and he gave her a hug before she could get to the podium. Iowa is PROUD!!!!
Love your comment. I understand the competitiveness part. I could never play to participate even a kids game with my children. If I’m playing I’m playing to win. And if I can’t win at something I won’t play it. I’m a guy and I took a swing at my older brother’s despite him being much older. It’s both a boon and a curse.
@@EetsBack Thank you, back when my boys were young and in youth league football, I loved being at practices because I could pass to the kids, punt the ball, and was actually worried they could get hurt because I could kick it so high, but what was I thinking? At that age, I would have loved having someone's parent doing that for me, but back then girls never played football. I wanted to so bad. One day my younger son came home from school to tell me that his friends had all voted that he had the "coolest mom". I have to admit, it made me smile for a long time.. Lord, that was nearly 25 years ago, and as I think about it, I'm smiling again. I played softball and volleyball in an adult league after high school, and I was very aggressive. I wanted to be the best, and while we weren't, we could taste it!!! I blew out my knee at the state softball tournament in '87, and that was the end of sports for me. I blew out the grafts 2 more times and was wearing an expensive brace at the time. After 8 surgeries, I'm too crippled up to even consider sports again. I attempted to toss a tennis ball for one of our grandkids dogs and I thought I had ripped my shoulder out of it's socket. I was nearly crying for a few days. Probably has to do with making hay every summer as a teen and into my early 20's until I couldn't anymore, loading bales on a rack or in early spring softball practice while in high school and several of us decided to play "burnout" in the gym, throwing as hard as we could. Nobody told us it would injure us. These golden years are rusty!! I remember when I was young and doing stupid things, I would overhear my parents and grandparents comparing their aches and pains. I thought to myself that I would never be like that when I grew up. Yeah, right. I think I'll get a couple of Tylenol because that shoulder is hurting now! Sorry for the book!!
Caitlin Clark in my opinion, is like the Beatles coming to America.
hahahah yeah must be. black,white,brown...young,middle aged and even more chronologically advanced (ahem) all are going gaga
Im brown and she’s dope
You must be a teenage girl to think that.
Wow the fact that you were able to track down all her grade school teachers os wild 😊
@alegna It's not hard when people don't move from one city to another, or even one state to another. I'm sure all of her teachers remember her.
Sweet! I love the excitement around Caitlin! I’m beside myself awaiting the Fever’s season!
Such a cool interview. Thanks for this!
🙏🏾💯💪🏾💯🎉 GREAT INTERVIEWING & REPORTING INFO 🎉💯💪🏾💯🙏🏾
Thanks so much ladies for sharing your insights and memories of Caitlin Clark.👍
Awesome amazing photos
Four of the twelve are checked: To be strong; To meet Maya Moore; To travel the world (partial); To be in the WNBA.
she can easily do most of her other dreams like live in a mansion and the dogs. 😅😊
Win the lottery. …..she won the wnba lottery
Anything is Possible, who's laughing 😂 😊😂😂😂😂😂😂😊Now, She's Pretty Good ❤😊😊 ..........
I hope Caitlin returns to coaching eventually ❤
She was such a little cutie! 😂
GOATLIN CLARK🔥
Caitlin Clark Kent
@@Kakki82 Both very creative names! Nice!
Ten years after 6th grade all her teachers happen to still be employed still at the same school.
That's Iowa for ya ... even in the Des Moines area ... Wish it could be that way for more students : )
could be nuns, Caitlin always went to Catholic school.
At the 4:37 point of the interview, my younger brother followed the games for the Iowa women's team especially wherever they were available on cable and established broadcasting networks once the October (Sunday) "Crossover at Kinnick" preseason charity game against DePaul Univ. was in action, then later during the Iowa-Ohio State games he became familiar with the First round, fifth overall draft pick for the Dallas Wings, Jacy Sheldon, who the media following the Big Ten Conference didn't bother trying to look at as being any sort of in-conference rival of Clark in any way, while during the NCAA Tournament opening round matchup between Big Ten member Maryland and Iowa State out in Palo Alto, Ca. got to look at the Cyclones hulking center Audi Crooks, who took the team to the second round against the hosting Stanford Cardinal who were playing their last tournament under all-time winningest women's NCAA coach Tara Vander veer, who was coaching her forty-fifth and final year.
Caitlin Clark is the real deal.
Caitlin is the girl next door expanded and elevated to the nth degree. What a role model. The exact opposite of DJT.
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Goat
If u want ur daughter to be good at sports
U make her play with the boys early
In her elementary picture I see McKenna Grace Bad Seed
All of these brilliant educators can't put a sentence together without using the word like a thousand times.
So glad that at least one hater has joined the discussion..
My opinion is that her strength comes from strong catholic values which most she probably learn in high school, it was the same thing I felt growing up next door to an all girls high school in the 60's and 70's they had a very strong Ora or positive presents you could feel, I can't describe it, but catholic Scholls are a lot different from public
Teachers still using 1970's tech to record the interview nice
Makes me cringe to listen.........embellishments much?
Determination. Drive. Planning. Turning negative into positive. No. Can't, won't, impossible. Your white, black, to short, to tall. I see why some old school dislikes LOGO CC 22 ⛹🏻♀️. There once a 🏀 Nate Archable. People said he was to short. WELL. Who daughters is next 🤔