Caitlin Clark has become a name that resonated not only with fans of basketball or the WNBA but also with people who were not fans but have since followed the sport due to her popularity. Despite her fame, however, Clark has had her fair share of criticism, negative remarks, and even hate comments. Talking about resilience, the Indiana Fever star credited her Italian roots as a major factor for her competitive spirit in and outside of the basketball court.
During her appearance at the 2024 Massachusetts Conference for Women, Caitlin Clark touched on what makes her the easy-going and down-to-earth person that she is, and where her resilience to challenges and negative comments came from. Turns out, it may run in the family.
Coming from an Italian family, from her mother’s side, Clark recalled how she had to toughen up as she would constantly be faced with bigger and older competition in everything.
“I always had to find a way to hold my own,” Clark said. “Whether it was older cousins, whether it was the boys I was playing with, whether I was playing other big girls, whatever it was.”
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She also touched on how she wasn’t the Caitlin Clark who is always driven to win that fans know right now. Her losses, however, were what made her stronger.
“So, I think that’s what kind of drove me, and I failed a lot because people were older or people were better, and I couldn’t stand that,” Clark added. “And I think that’s what kind of gave me that competitive passion and that fire.”
Has Caitlin Clark Kissed The “Woke Ring”?
Caitlin Clark was named TIME Magazine’s Athlete of The Year, but the statements she gave on her interview for the feature had some parts that were not well-received by some people, particularly her comment about her acknowledging her “white privilege.” This comment did not sit well with some people, including TV commentator Tomi Lahren.
“It’s really annoying to me that she’d make this about race, especially when so many have been fighting on her behalf to take race out of the equation and focus on the game and merit of athletics,” Lahren said in her segment for FOX News Commentary.
“Here is a lesson I wish athletes and public figures would learn,” she went on.”Once you bend a knee to the woke mob, you might as well become a human pretzel because it’ll never be enough.
“Caitlin Clark will learn that one day,” Lahren continued. “But until then, she’ll keep kissing the woke ring in the hopes the mob will like her, they never will.”
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