Titles by Lisa Bluder

<b>Combining modern reportage with historical revelations, a multifaceted portrait of Caitlin Clark&#39;s game-changing superstardom and the cultural foundation it was built upon</b><br /><br />Caitlin Clark has established herself as one of the global faces of the WNBA and has ignited popular interest in women&#39;s sports. Her ascent to dominance and international celebrity represents the continuation of a surprisingly deep lineage for women&#39;s basketball in the state of Iowa where Clark was born and raised, and where she wrote her name throughout the NCAA history books as a Hawkeye.<br /><br />Spanning 100 years and several generations, <i>Becoming Caitlin Clark</i> traces the arc between the revered women who played the wildly popular game of 6-on-6 basketball in the 1920s and Clark in the 2020s, examining her fame and style of play in the context of her predecessors, while telling the story of the basketball-loving community that rallied behind her in college and beyond.<br /><br />Howard Megdal&#39;s storytelling incorporates in-depth conversations with Clark; her coach Lisa Bluder; her Iowa teammates, including WNBA star Kate Martin; the top assistant coach at Iowa, Jan Jensen; the Caitlin Clark of the 1970s, Molly Bolin; vital figures in the growth of Iowa basketball like C. Vivian Stringer and Jolette Law; and even Jensen&#39;s grandmother Dorcas Andersen, who scored 89 points in the Iowa state tournament in 1921 and kept journals as she did so, brought to light here for the first time.<br /><br /><b>From rural auditoriums to the Indiana Fever&#39;s Gainbridge Fieldhouse, this intimate yet kaleidoscopic perspective on the modern game and its newest icon makes this an essential read for WNBA and college basketball fans.</b>