‘We feel so blessed’: Caitlin Clark gives Iowa hoops unique

WNBA star Caitlin Clark still shows love for her alma mater.Editor’s Picks

On Tuesday, the Indiana Fever guard amazed the Iowa Hawkeyes males’s and females’s basketball groups with sets of her own player-exclusive colorway of the Nike Kobe 5 Protro shoe.

“Thanks to [Caitlin Clark] for being that excellent … we feel so blessed,” Iowa women’s basketball head coach Jan Jensen said.Clark has actually consistently sported the Kobe Bryant signature sneaker considering that her college days at Iowa. Throughout the 2024 females’s NCAA tournament, the current Fever guard put on the “Bruce Lee”Kobe 5s in the Hawkeyes’run, which ended with a loss in the national championship game versus the South Carolina Gamecocks.Big thank you to No. 22 #Hawkeyes pic.twitter.com/LZ6wChSPae!.?.!— The Iowa Hawkeyes (@TheIowaHawkeyes)July 22, 2025 In a 2024 interview, Clark expressed why the Bryant signature shoe is her favorite.”I’m a Kobe person,” Clark stated last season.”Everyone understands that. It’s

the very best shoe. It’s not even close. … So, clearly, simply to use [

Kobe’s] shoe and clearly what Vanessa [Bryant] has done and their household has actually done. And continuing his tradition, not just undoubtedly within his shoe, however simply that entire structure and simply the Kobe brand name is pretty incredible. So, I feel really fortunate and lucky to not just represent Nike, however likewise their entire family.”In Indiana’s season opener versus the Chicago Sky, Clark wore the customized “Novice of the Year”Kobe 5 player edition sneakers, a nod to the honor she won in the 2024 season after averaging 19.2 points

, 5.7 rebounds and 8.4 assists.The Kobe 5″ Caitlin Clark”colorway was originally released on June 30. Clark tattooed an eight-year,$28 million handle Nike in April 2024, with a signature sneaker currently in the works. She also debuted a new player edition tennis shoe at WNBA All-Star Weekend.Clark is presently balancing 16.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 8.8

assists for the Fever this season.