A mul­ti­fac­eted por­trait of Caitlin Clark’s game-chang­ing super­star­dom and the cul­tur­al foun­da­tion it was built upon. Caitlin Clark has estab­lished her­self as one of the glob­al faces of the WNBA and has ignit­ed pop­u­lar inter­est in women’s sports. Her ascent to dom­i­nance and inter­na­tion­al celebri­ty rep­re­sents the con­tin­u­a­tion of a sur­pris­ing­ly deep lin­eage for women’s bas­ket­ball in the state of Iowa where Clark was born and raised, and where she wrote her name through­out the NCAA his­to­ry books as a Hawk­eye. Becom­ing Caitlin Clark traces the arc between the revered women who played the wild­ly pop­u­lar game of 6‑on‑6 bas­ket­ball in the 1920s and Clark in the 2020s, exam­in­ing her fame and style of play in the con­text of her pre­de­ces­sors, while telling the sto­ry of the bas­ket­ball-lov­ing com­mu­ni­ty that ral­lied behind her in col­lege and beyond. Megdal’s sto­ry­telling incor­po­rates con­ver­sa­tions with Clark and vital fig­ures in the growth of Iowa bas­ket­ball. From rur­al audi­to­ri­ums to the Indi­ana Fever’s Gain­bridge Field­house, this inti­mate yet kalei­do­scop­ic per­spec­tive on the mod­ern game and its newest icon makes this an essen­tial read for WNBA and col­lege bas­ket­ball fans.