18/12/2024
A basketball player has never before made the ranks of the Forbes list of the World’s 100 Most Powerful Women (Serena Williams, tennis ace, is one of the only other athletes to appear in the rankings in the last 20 years), but the 22-year-old Caitlin Clark was a driving force in a game-changing year for women’s sports.
The year marked the first time there was gender parity in the number of Olympic athletes competing in the Games; U.S. women’s soccer closed its 2024 season with the most-watched championship game in NWSL history; Angel City FC became the highest-valued women’s professional sports team, at $250 million when Willow Bay and Bob Iger acquired a controlling stake this summer.
Read more about how the Indiana Fever rookie lit the match that set women’s sports on fire: https://trib.al/kVLcxhn
