November 12, 2019 – National Signing Day for Collegiate Women’s Basketball. Caitlin Clark from Dowling High School in West Des Moines makes her “official” commitment to Head Coach Lisa Bluder and the Iowa Hawkeyes. The Caitlin Clark-era begins!

While the University of Iowa has a rich history in collegiate athletics, no one has ever seen anything like what happened when Catlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeye Women’s Basketball Team played their 2023-2024 season. After finishing as the NCAA National Champion Runner-Up in 2023, not many expected this team to roar back to the Final Four in 2024, but with Caitlin Clark on our side, we were nearly unstoppable.

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