Caitlin Clark was not included on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2025, which was released Wednesday.
Clark was left by the list despite the publication appointed her to this year’s athlete in 2024.
Time also included other athletes on his “most influential” list on Wednesday, including other WNBA players Breanna Stewart and Naphisa Collier. The main prerequisite for Stewart and Collier’s place on the list is their recent launch of the “unmatched” woman’s basketball league as co -founders.
Other athletes included on the list were American gymnast Simone Biles, forming Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback and the Super Bowl Lix MVP Jalen hurts, and France’s Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Leon Marchand.
Clark’s absence from the list asked questions and criticism from fans and teachers.
Fox Sports host Colin Cowherd brought attention to the snub when he was with a rant during his show on Wednesday.
CLICK HERE for more sports cover at Foxnews.com
“It’s idiotic! That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen!” Said Cowherd. “It’s a mute list … She’s the most influential athlete I want to claim, male or woman in America in the last year.”
Other social media users agreed with Cowherd’s Take.
“Clark is the main reason why the league is so popular and she’s not on the list?” An X user wrote.
Another user asked: “How… how is she relaxed by this list[?] CRAZY!”
Inside Caitlin Clark’s influence on men’s basketball
Caitlin Clark was not included on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2025. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)
Clark’s influence on the popularity of women’s basketball in the last year has been evident in various statistics.
Clark made the fever of the most set team in wnba at a landslide in Her rookie yearWhen the 14 most watched WNBA games in the season all included the fever. On top of that, she broke the record for most all-star voices for any player in the WNBA story.
In early September, Clark’s Indiana Fever played in front of a TV audience of 1.26 million viewers in a game against Minnesota Lynx, played at the same time as a week-1 Friday night NFL games between Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
In Clark’s first final in regular season against Washington Mystics on September 19, the 20,711 fans appeared at Capital One Arena, a new record for the highest visited WNBA season competition.
Clark pulled a wnba record 1.84 million viewers for her first playoffs against Connecticut Sun on September 22 while competing with an NFL Sunday. She followed it up with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for games 2.
Clark’s influence on the popularity of women’s basketball in the last year has been evident in various statistics. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
But after Clark’s fever season ended, WNBA playoffs also saw a steep pass of viewers.
The first game between ACES and LIBERY, a new match for last year’s WNBA final between two of the league’s most popular and successful team, drew an audience of only 929,000, which was 50% less than Fevers Game 1 against Sun.
Meanwhile, in Women’s College Basketball, after Clark played in the first woman’s NCAA title game to get more viewers than the gentlemen in 2024, the sport saw a steep fall in ratings this year.
Without Clark in the tournament the average broadcasts of Uconn vs. UCLA and South Carolina against Texas only 3.9 million viewers for ESPN. It marked a decrease of 64% from the record settings of 10.8 million viewers in 2024, according to Front Office Sports.
