Caitlin Clark’s FIRST-EVER Shoe COMING SOON – THIS Changes EVERYTHING!
That’s right, Caitlin Clark of the WNBA Indiana Fever isn’t getting one shoe. She’s getting two. And both drops are already turning heads, shattering narratives, and setting up a new sneaker era in women’s basketball.
Caitlin Clark’s Nike signature shoe is in development, CEO Elliott Hill says.
Caitlin Clark is working on her Nike signature shoe and logo design, Nike CEO Elliott Hill said in a video interview with Fortune.com.
Hill said in the video that Clark was at Nike headquarters recently and confirmed that Clark is “working on her signature shoe that will launch. And we’re working on her logo and her design of her logo.”
The former Iowa women’s basketball star signed an 8-year, $28 million endorsement deal with Nike in April 2024. Since then, fans have been eagerly awaiting an announcement of a Clark signature shoe.
Hill did not say in the video when the Clark shoes will hit the market.
Clark was named Rookie of the Year and All-WNBA with the Indiana Fever last year.
“When we were running just basketball, we never got to the women’s opportunity,” Hill said in the video. “But by having this small team (at Nike) that is focused on women’s basketball, it unlocked, we believe, for the game of basketball but also in product.”
Here is the Fortune.com video interview on the magazine’s YouTube channel. The conversation about Clark’s shoe begins around the 6:20 mark.
Iowa basketball recruiting visit preview: DePaul transfer Conor Enright
IOWA CITY — Iowa basketball is expected to get a visit from DePaul transfer Conor Enright, Dillon Buchanan of AMR Agency told the Register. Enright is also scheduled to visit Indiana following his stop in Iowa City.
The 6-foot-2 guard averaged 7.5 points, 6.2 assists and 3.3 rebounds per game for DePaul this past season.
A product of Mundelein, Illinois, Enright began his college career at Drake playing for Darian DeVries, now the head coach at Indiana. Enright spent three seasons in the Bulldogs’ program, the first of which he redshirted. Enright was on NCAA Tournament teams in each of his final two seasons with the Bulldogs. He started all 33 of his appearances during the 2023-24 campaign and shot a career-high 43.9% from deep.
Enright then transferred to DePaul, where he posted career-highs in points, assists and rebounds per game. His season, however, was cut short after 23 appearances. Enright underwent a surgical procedure on his shoulder after initially suffering the injury during a game in January. His final appearance of the season came against Seton Hall on Feb. 2.
Enright notched at least six assists in 16 of his 23 appearances this past season. He had a season-high 18 points and nine assists in a loss to UConn on Jan. 1. Enright was in double-figure scoring seven times during his time at DePaul.
Though his points, rebounds and assists per game were up, his shooting efficiency was down from his time at Drake. Enright shot a career-low 39.5% from the field at DePaul. He also converted on 32.5% of his attempts from deep, a sharp decrease from 43.9% the previous season. Enright’s 63.3% free-throw percentage was also a career low.
Here are some highlights of Enright from his time at DePaul:
Iowa coach Ben McCollum is tasked with rebuilding a depleted roster. A few Hawkeyes have exhausted their college eligibility — Payton Sandfort, Drew Thelwell and Even Brauns. Several others have entered the transfer portal. Owen Freeman recently committed to Creighton, Brock Harding to TCU and Riley Mulvey to Siena.
The exodus has left McCollum facing a roster overhaul.
In short order, McCollum has already made a splash in the transfer portal by landing Drake’s Bennett Stirtz, who is following his coach to Iowa.
Stirtz, the reigning Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year, has risen the ranks with McCollum from Division II Northwest Missouri State to Drake and now to Iowa. Stirtz told the Register that he is planning to enter the 2025 NBA Draft but maintain his college eligibility with the intent of playing for the Hawkeyes next season.
“If he’s not the best point guard in the country, he’s top two or three,” McCollum said of Stirtz. “So that’s pretty good fit right there.”