Caitlin Clark continues to assert herself as one of the best passers in WNBA history.
Already the record-holder for assists in a single game (19, which she set in the final game before the All-Star break), Clark is now in the record books once more. With her third assist Sunday against the Seattle Storm, Clark set a new single-season mark for total helpers by a rookie.
Clark passed Ticha Penicheiro, who had 225 for the Sacramento Monarchs in 1998.
The WNBA season was shorter during Penicheiro’s rookie year, but it took the Portuguese guard 30 games to reach 225. Clark exceeded that mark in Indiana’s 28th game of the season, with 12 more contests left to put that total out of reach for future first-years.
Records are meant to be broken…it shows growth and evolution. Can’t think of a better player to break it!! Congrats @CaitlinClark22 https://t.co/l99HRKJR7u
— Ticha Penicheiro (@TichaPenicheiro) August 18, 2024
After a relatively slow start to the season — at least by the prolific standard she set at Iowa — Clark has been on a tear of late. In the last 16 games entering Sunday (after that brutal opening stretch of 11 contests in 20 days), Clark is averaging a near double-double with 18.9 points and 9.6 assists per game.
She kicked off the second half of the season…
