WNBA star Caitlin Clark anticipated to be left off Workforce USA’s Olympic roster: studies

Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark is not going to be headed to Paris this Summer season for the 2024 Olympic Video games, in keeping with a number of studies. 

The WNBA phenom, who was unable to attend USA Basketball’s coaching camp in April due to the NCAA match, was reportedly left off the ultimate roster, the Related Press reported, citing a supply. 

Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana Fever, celebrates after scoring within the third quarter towards the Washington Mystics at Capital One Area on June 7, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Greg Fiume/Getty Pictures)

The choice was first reported by The Athletic.

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Clark was initially named to the nationwide crew’s 14-person roster for coaching camp in Cleveland, Ohio, again in early April. However the former Iowa star was unable to attend as the Hawkeyes superior to the ultimate the place they’d in the end lose for a second yr in a row, this time to South Carolina. 

9 different Olympians had been invited to camp, together with five-time gold medalist Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury, who is anticipated to return.

The ultimate roster has not been introduced, however Fever teammate Aliyah Boston was additionally named to the nationwide crew’s coaching roster again in April.

Workforce United States celebrating with their medals after defeating Workforce Japan 90-75 throughout the girls’s gold medal match between Workforce United States and Workforce Japan on day sixteen of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Video games at Saitama Tremendous Area on August 8, 2021, in Saitama, Japan.  (Abbie Parr/Getty Pictures)

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The studies come amid Clark’s rising recognition in girls’s basketball, which has led to sold-out video games and document rankings for each the skilled league and girls’s school basketball. 

On Friday night time, Clark equaled a career-high with 30 factors to assist the Fever maintain on for an 85-83 victory over the winless Washington Mystics earlier than an NBA-sized crowd. 

The Mystics hosted the sport at Capital One Area earlier than a offered out crowd of 20,333, which set the mark for the most important attendance at a WNBA recreation since 2007. By comparability, the Mystics’ typical venue – Leisure and Sports activities Area – seats simply 4,200. 

Caitlin Clark, #22 of the Indiana, Fever seems on throughout the recreation towards the New York Liberty throughout the 2024 Commissioner’s Cup recreation on June 2, 2024, in Brooklyn, New York.  (Catalina Fragoso/NBAE by way of Getty Pictures)

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The choice to go away Clark off the ultimate roster was met by critical backlash on social media. 

Former U.S. males’s soccer star Alexi Lalas, who lately spoke with Fox Information Digital about Clark’s attraction, was amongst those that criticized the choice. 

“I don’t know sufficient about USA girls’s Olympic basketball to know if Caitlin Clark’s omission is a snub. I do know that, proper now, she can be the one purpose I’d remotely care about USA girls’s Olympic basketball.”

The Related Press contributed to this report. 

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