Caitlin Clark's bulked-up physique has WNBA fans excited for 2025 season: 'Someone’s been in the weight room'

New Indiana Fever caput manager Stephanie White instantly noticed Caitlin Clark’s tendency to get into the value country this offseason. 

It seems similar the hard enactment is paying off. 

WNBA fans are getting excited for twelvemonth 2 of Clark with the Fever aft seeing pictures of her this play during the women’s hoops Big Ten Tournament featuring her Iowa Hawkeyes. 

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, cheers connected her erstwhile teammates connected Thursday, March 6, 2025 successful a circular 2 crippled astatine the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament betwixt the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Michigan State Spartans astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (IMAGN)

Clark was pictured flexing aft a large play connected the court, and Bri Lewerke, the lensman astatine the game, caught the infinitesimal that showed disconnected her bulked-up physique. 

"Well someone’s been successful the value room," Lewerke captioned her photograph connected X. 

Clark’s animated gestures courtside were during the Hawkeyes’ pugnacious nonaccomplishment to Ohio State, 60-59, successful the quarterfinals of the tourney connected Friday. 

"She’ll beryllium bada-- this year," a commentator said nether the picture. 

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Another 1 added: "Year 2 is going to beryllium FUN!"

White spoke to The Athletic earlier this offseason astir Clark’s interaction connected the WNBA, likening her to Taylor Swift with the magnitude of attraction she has gotten truthful rapidly and however she handles the fame, portion focusing connected her craft. 

One illustration of focusing connected her crippled was recognizing the request to battalion connected musculus aft getting tossed astir a spot successful her rookie run – immoderate of those moments led to wide debate. 

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, plays against the Dallas Wings successful the 2nd fractional of a WNBA hoops crippled successful Indianapolis connected Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)

"She’s got a batch of self-awareness," White said astir Clark. "She figured retired close distant that, ‘I request to get stronger. I can’t get knocked astir arsenic much.’ "She’s done a large occupation of getting successful the value country and focusing connected her strength, successful presumption of debased halfway of gravity, clip nether tension, each of those things. I deliberation the adjacent measurement is efficiency. Not truthful galore turnovers, higher tract extremity percentages." 

Clark besides told reporters during the 2024 Paris Olympics interruption successful the W play past twelvemonth that she was hitting the value country hard. 

"I’m tiny but I effort to beatified my ain the champion I can," she said successful August 2024, via The New York Post. "…I don’t know, I deliberation I’m discreetly strong. I’m ne'er gonna beryllium the strongest person. I cognize that. I effort to enactment connected immoderate weight, and I’ve been moving hard successful the value room."

The caller W play begins successful mid-May, erstwhile Clark volition instrumentality connected chap rookie prima Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky connected May 17 to unfastened the 2025 campaign. 

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark, #22, waves to her erstwhile teammates connected Wednesday, March 5, 2025, successful a circular 1 crippled astatine the 2025 TIAA Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament betwixt the Iowa Hawkeyes and the Wisconsin Badgers astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (IMAGN)

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Clark is coming disconnected a monumental season, some personally and for the crippled arsenic a whole, arsenic she was named the 2024 Rookie of the Year aft averaging 19.2 points, 8.4 assists and 5.7 rebounds per game. She broke galore rookie and league records on the way, showcasing much than conscionable a speedy modulation from assemblage to the pros. 

Clark volition person a fewer caller teammates astir this season, too, arsenic the Fever added cardinal endowment similar Natasha Howard, DeWanna Bonner, Sophie Cunningham and Brianna Turner this offseason to spell with their 2024 No. 1 wide prime and their apical prime successful 2023, Aliyah Boston, arsenic well. 

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