Less than two weeks after becoming the all-time NCAA women’s basketball scoring leader, Caitlin Clark officially surpassed Lynette Woodard’s 3,649 career points for the overall Division I crown. Clark’s historic moment occurred in Wednesday’s 108-60 win over Minnesota, when she drained a three-pointer with under five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.
Woodard played for the University of Kansas from 1977 until 1981, however, she is not listed in the NCAA record books because when she played for the Jayhawks the NCAA did not officially recognize women’s sports. Instead, women’s basketball was governed by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.
After Clark snapped Kelsey Plum’s NCAA record on Feb. 15, Woodard released a statement congratulating Clark on her “sensational career,” and said she looked forward to seeing her “score many more points for years to come.”
This has also been a time in which Woodard thinks is important to recognize the women whose achievements are not talked about today because of technicalities.
“Well, it’s not so much what I want the people to know; I want the NCAA governing body to know that they should respect the players, they should respect the…
