Caitlin Clark’s surprised everyone with her decision to forgo playing in the inaugural season of Unrivaled.
Unrivaled is a new, 3-vs-3 professional women’s basketball league set to tip off in January in Miami between many of the WNBA’s biggest stars.
However, perhaps the WNBA’s biggest star, Clark, has decided against playing in the new league, despite the eye-popping offers that were reportedly on the table.
Instead, the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year has decided to rest up and play golf before embarking on her gruelling offseason workout program.
We’ve already seen a beefed up Clark working on her obvious weakness.
But that’s just one aspect of her offseason schedule, which went viral in 2023 when she was still in college as a member of the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Back in 2023, the NCAA Division I all-time scoring leader gave fans a glimpse at her standard summer workout, which included 100 3-point shot attempts and 300 shot attempts total.
Social media footage showed the Indiana Fever sharpshooter working on all the basic fundamentals at game speed.
Operating out of her lavish home gym that features a half-indoor, half-outdoor basketball court, Clark begins by working on her cardio and doing speed runs from one basket to the other.
After getting her heart rate pumping, Clark works on her handles, switching the ball from one hand to another behind her back while alternately tapping a wall in front of her with each hand.
With the sweat fully on, Caitlin begins working on her shot, taking 100 3-point attempts, 100 mid-range shots, and 100 free throw attempts.
Footage shows her moving around the top of the key, catching an outlet pass and drilling a number of shots from beyond the arc.
At the end of the video, her trainer reveals that she made 233 of the 300 total shots.
Clark went 63/100 from 3-point range, 81/100 from mid-range, and 89/100 from the free throw line.
“I think it’s a good number,” Clark tells the camera.
“3s were a little bit lower, I’ll still take 63 but I want to be more around 70 if I can.
“81 mid-range is really, really good. I’m usually around 75 there.
“Anytime I can get to around 90 out of 100 free throws, I like that number.
“I want to be above 90 but sometimes I’m not. If I can be at 90 that’s where I like to be at, so I’ll take that number.”
Clark went on to average 19.2 points, 8.4 assists and 5.7 rebounds during her debut season in the W.
She went 41.7 percent on her field goal attempts and 34.4 percent from 3-point range. Clark also went 90.6 percent from the free throw line — 0.6 percent over the 90 threshold she likes to be around.
It was an individual season for the ages, as she broke many on and off-court records.
Unfortunately, her 20-20 Fever team ultimately failed to win the big prize, a WNBA championship, coming up short in the first round of the playoffs against a superior Connecticut Sun in what was their first postseason appearance since 2016.
However, things are on the up for Indy, who are looking to go a step further in Clark’s sophomore season.
They have a new head coach in Stephanie White, who has already outlined how Clark can lead them to a WNBA title.
Clark and White now have just over five months before the Fever’s 2025 regular-season opener at home against longtime rival Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky on May 17.