Even as a freshman in high school, Caitlin Clark had the rare ability to make what was complicated look easy. Once, at a tournament in Virginia, Clark was trapped in a corner by a full-court press. Her solution was to dribble the basketball between her opponent’s legs, run around her defender and keep pushing the ball up the floor. Months later, against the Philadelphia Belles, Clark, with her team down nine, scored 11 straight points in the last 65 seconds of a game. “It was jaw-dropping,” said Dickson Jensen, who coached Clark in both instances. “There was a look on her face that was a little different.”
Presently, there is no one else quite like Clark in college — a virtuoso with the basketball in her hand and a sniper from anywhere on the floor. There was a time, though, when Clark wasn’t nearly the shooter she was now. Jensen, the founder of the EYBL program All Iowa Attack Basketball, remembers it. Clark was in the sixth grade. Back then, she was unafraid and competitive and “had a bounce and pop that normal sixth graders don’t have,” says Jensen, who has coached her since then. Logo-3s were not yet a part of her repertoire.
Clark needed a place to develop so she turned to Attack. She credits the program for helping to build her foundation. How to…
