The new Indiana Fever -head coach Stephanie White immediately noticed Caitlin Clark’s desire to enter the weight room this season.
It seems that the hard work pays off.
WNBA fans are excited for years two of Clark with the fever after watching pictures of her over the weekend under the women’s basketball big ten tournament with her Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark, #22, cheering on his former teammates Thursday, March 6, 2025 in a round two -match of 2025 Tiaa Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament between Iowa Hawkeyes and Michigan State Spartans at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (IMagn)
Clark was depicted bending after a big acting on the field, and Bri Lewerke, the photographer on the game, caught the moment that showed his bulk-up physique.
“Well, someone has been in the weight room,” Lewerke wrote his photo on X.
Clark’s animated Movement Court was under Hawkeyes’ harsh loss to Ohio State, 60-59, in the quarterfinals of the tournament Friday.
“She wants to be bada- this year,” said a commentator under the picture.
Caitlin Clark receives Taylor Swift -Comparison from new fever trainer Stepnaie White
Another added: “Year 2 will be fun!”
White talked to the athletic earlier this season about Clark’s influence on WNBA and compared her to Taylor Swift with the amount of attention she has received so quickly and how she handles fame while focusing on her craft.
An example of focusing on her game was to recognize the need to pack on muscle after throwing a little around in her rookie campaign – some of these moments led to widespread debate.
Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark, #22, plays against Dallas Wings in the second half of a WNBA basketball match in Indianapolis on September 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
“She has a lot of self -awareness,” White said of Clark. “She figured out right away, ‘I have to get stronger. I can’t be knocked around so much.’ “She has done a good job of getting into the weight space and focusing on her strength, in terms of low center of gravity, time under excitement, all these things. I think the next step is efficiency. Not so many revenue, higher field target percentage. ”
Clark also told journalists in Paris -ol in Paris in 2024 in the W season last year that she hit the weight room hard.
“I’m little, but I’m trying to devote my own best I can,” she said in August 2024 via the New York Post. “… I don’t know, I think I’m discreetly strong. I never become the strongest person.
The new W season begins in mid-May, when Clark will take on the rookie star Angel Reese and Chicago Sky on May 17 to open the campaign in 2025.
Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark, #22, waves for his former teammates on Wednesday, March 5, 2025 in a round a game of 2025 Tiaa Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament between Iowa Hawkeyes and Wisconsin Badgers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. (IMagn)
Clark goes out of a monumental season, both personally and for the game as a whole, when she was named Rookie of the Year in the year after an average of 19.2 points, 8.4 assists and 5.7 rebounds per year. Match. She broke several rookie and league items along the way and showed more than just a quick transition from college to professionals.
Clark will also have a couple of new teammates around this season as the fever added key talent like Natasha Howard, Dewanna Bonner, Sophie Cunningham and Brianna Turner this offseason to go with their 2024 no. 1 overall election and their top election in 2023, Aliyah Boston, too.
