KSHB 41: WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark supercharges WIN for KC Women's Sports Awards celebration

By Tod Palmer

Caitlin Clark supercharged the 32nd annual WIN for KC Women’s Sports Awards banquet, which is the nation's largest celebration of girls and women's sports.

"When we started seeing the attendance numbers tick, tick, tick, tick, tick — and now we're almost 4,000, maybe over 4000," WIN for KC Director Taylor Obersteadt said. "I think our previous record was 1,500, so that's when I knew the excitement was really there."

Clark — decked out in bright red, a nod to her beloved Super Bowl-bound Kansas City Chiefs — discussed a wide range of topics during a 20-minute conversation at the T-Mobile Center.

Clark made the All-WNBA First Team in her first season with the Indiana Fever last year, leading the league in assists with a WNBA-record 337 and made three-pointers.

But she told the crowd, which included 350 Kansas City-area girls who won high school state championships in the last year, that it's also OK to fail "as long as you learn from it and bounce back."

Clark also discussed the role mental health plays in her preparation and reiterated her belief that "Kansas City would be a great spot for a (WNBA) team."

Addison Bjorn — a Park Hill South junior, who plays for the same AAU team Clark played for (the All Iowa Attack) — received the Children’s Mercy Kansas City Rising Star Award after helping the USA Basketball Junior National Team win the FIBA U17 Women's Basketball World Cup last summer.

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