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On Her Game
The Sports Plus take
How Caitlin Clark changed women's sports.
USA Today columnist Christine Brennan tells the story of Caitlin Clark's rise, from Iowa, where she scored more points than any player in Division I history, to her record-setting rookie year in the WNBA. She also takes on the tougher parts: the Olympic snub, the safety concerns, and the jealousy and backlash that came with all the attention. It's as much about what 50 years of Title IX built as it is about one player. A natural pick for any young hooper.
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How it reads
Easy read
Best for
- Basketball fans
- Girls who play sports
- Fans of women's sports
About this book
- Author
- Christine Brennan
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Published
- July 8, 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN-10
- 1668090198
- ISBN-13
- 978-1668090190
Book description
Instant New York Times Bestseller!
A news-making and electrifying portrait of sports phenomenon Caitlin Clark, whose dramatic ascendance in college basketball and now in the WNBA has captured the attention of media and fans unlike any other female team-sport athlete in history-- by award-winning USA TODAY columnist and television commentator Christine Brennan.
America has never seen an athlete quite like Caitlin Clark. Attracting record-shattering attendance and TV ratings, she has riveted the nation with her famous logo threes and thrilling passes and changed how fans across the country view women's sports. Drawing on dozens of extensive interviews and exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting, veteran journalist Christine Brennan narrates Clark's rise--including the formative experiences that led to her scoring more points than any woman or man in major college basketball history--and delivers fascinating new details about Clark's Olympic snub by USA Basketball, the safety concerns around her that led to charter flights for all players, the WNBA's lack of preparation for heightened national scrutiny, and troubling outbreaks of jealousy and resentment as a white player became the top story in a predominantly Black league.
The 2024 season was a watershed. Always taking the high road in the face of criticism, Clark proceeded to write herself into WNBA record books as one of the league's most talented rookies ever. And her winning persona--on full display whether surrounded by children begging for autographs or reporters hanging on her every word--made Clark such a fan favorite that increasingly larger arenas needed to be found to accommodate the hordes who traveled hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of miles to watch her play.
Clark arrived as a sports and cultural icon a little more than fifty years after the passage of Title IX, the 1972 law that opened the floodgates for girls and women to play sports in America. On Her Game is a sports story, certainly, but it's also the story of a nation falling in love with what it has created because of that law--millions of new athletes, led by the magical Caitlin Clark.
About the author
Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA TODAY; a commentator for ABC, CNN, and PBS NewsHour; and the bestselling author of Inside Edge, named one of the top 100 sports books of all time by Sports Illustrated. She has been selected as one of the country's top ten sports columnists multiple times by the Associated Press Sports Editors and has covered the last twenty-one Olympic Games, summer and winter. A trailblazer, she was the first woman sportswriter at The Miami Herald, the first woman to cover Washington's NFL team for The Washington Post, and the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media.
