Caitlin Clark, Lucy Olsen On-Court WNBA Embrace Warms Iowa Hawkeyes Fans' Hearts

The Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball team currently has four former members of the team playing in the WNBA. These four players are Indiana Fever superstar guard Caitlin Clark, Las Vegas Aces veteran forward Megan Gustafson, Golden State Valkyries standout Kate Martin, and Washington Mystics rookie Lucy Olsen.

Olsen and Clark had completely different college careers, at least as it pertains to their time at Iowa. Clark is a school legend, taking the team to two consecutive NCAA national championship games and breaking the NCAA's all-time points record in a college career. Olsen, on the other hand, came to the Hawkeyes program after three seasons spent at Villanova, and therefore was only at Iowa for one year before getting drafted.

Still, Olsen's scoring aptitude, infectious energy, and wide smile — not to mention her handling the expectations of trying to fill Clark's impossibly big shoes with reverence — made her beloved by the Hawkeyes fan base.

While Clark and Olsen never played on the same team, there's a clear mutual respect between the two. And this was shown when they embraced before Clark's Fever team played Olsen's Mystics squad on June 3. This was captured in a video by Hawkeyes reporter Ethan Petrik, who made an X post on Tuesday evening that read, "WORLDS COLLIDE‼️".