South Carolina, Caitlin Clark, and the ongoing rise of women’s sports
Before South Carolina women’s coach Dawn Staley won her third national title on Sunday afternoon, and before Iowa’s Caitlin Clark took women’s college basketball by storm, there was a cultural shift in how the world viewed female athletes. The best way to describe that change in perception could be found in a four-word phrase on various types of apparel: “Everyone watches women’s sports.”
I attended one of South Carolina’s 38 wins that constituted its undefeated campaign – the 10th in the sport’s history. It was perhaps the most stressful of
