Time Magazine Makes Major Caitlin Clark Announcement

On Tuesday morning Time Magazine announced Clark as the "Athlete of the Year."

"When asked to define her year in one word, Clark chooses historic. Clark, it quickly becomes clear, is polite and down-to-earth but also has not an ounce of false humility," Time Magazine wrote before revealing Clark's message.

 “I've been able to captivate so many people that have never watched women's sports, let alone women's basketball, and turn them into fans,” Clark said.

While she's been able to have a major impact on the sport, bringing an entriely fresh audience that set attendance and viewership records in the process, Clark's name was used to political debates - which she clearly didn't ask for.

“I tell people I feel like the most controversial person,” Clark said. “But I am not. It’s just because of all the storylines that surround me. I literally try to live and treat everybody in the same exact respectful, kind way. It just confuses me at times.”

Of the manufactured rivalry with Angel Reese, Clark said “I don’t get that at all.”

“We’re not best friends, by any means, but we’re very respectful of one another. Yes, we have had tremendous battles. But when have I ever guarded her? And when has she guarded me?” 

She downplayed the "taunting" gesture from Reese during the Iowa-LSU national title game.

“I didn’t think it was taunting,” she said. “It really didn’t bother me. It’s just like, ‘Why don’t you talk about them winning? Or the incredible run that we went on that nobody would have thought we would have ever gone on?’ The only thing people cared about was this controversy that was really fabricated and made up, and then that has continued to be the case ever since.”

Clark isn't interested in fabricated rivalries, just winning.