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Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark took home the ESPY for WNBA Player of the Year

Clark was named the WNBA Player of the Year at the ESPY Awards Ceremony on July 16
ByJordan Underwood|
Jul 15, 2025; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) reacts to the crowd as they take on the Connecticut Sun in the first quarter at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images
Jul 15, 2025; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22) reacts to the crowd as they take on the Connecticut Sun in the first quarter at TD Garden. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images | David Butler II-Imagn Images

Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark continues to shatter records and rack up accolades during her second professional season.

After the Indiana Fever selected the former Iowa Hawkeye star No. 1 overall in the 2024 WNBA Draft, Clark set the league on fire in her rookie season.

In addition to being named the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the Year, she set multiple WNBA rookie and Indiana Fever franchise records.

During her rookie season, Clark became the fastest to reach 100 made three-pointers (34 games), set the Indiana franchise records for most 10-plus assist games, assists in a season, and double-doubles in a season.

Clark also set numerous WNBA records, including the single-game (19) and season record for assists (337), single-season rookie record for made three-pointers (122), assists (337), and total points (769). She also scored the most points by a point guard in WNBA history.

She earned All-WNBA Rookie Team, All-WNBA First Team, AP Female Athlete of the Year, and TIME's Athlete of the Year honors. Her All-WNBA First Team selection was the first for a rookie since 2008.

After her rookie campaign, Clark's trophy case is filling up, and she has to make room for another award after the ESPYs on Wednesday night.

After a questionable joke about her by host Shane Gillis that made multiple people cringe, Clark was awarded the ESPY for the WNBA Player of the Year.

Clark has had a down year by her standards, averaging only 16.5 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 8.8 assists per game, and has struggled with injuries. She has had two separate stints on the sidelines with a left groin and left quad injury.

In Indiana's July 15 game against the Connecticut Sun, the Fever won 85-77, but Clark appeared to tweak her groin injury in the final minute of the game.

The Fever organization made no injury announcement, but she was held out of the Fever's next game against the New York Liberty, which they lost 98-77.

Clark's status for the 2025 WNBA All-Star Weekend this week remains unknown.

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