College basketball star Caitlin Clark gets butter sculpture at Iowa State Fair
Clark is preparing for her senior season
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Caitlin Clark’s stardom has reached new levels.
The Iowa Hawkeyes basketball star took the sports world by storm during the 2022-23 women’s college basketball season, leading the Hawkeyes to a Final Four berth before losing to LSU in the national championship game.
Clark will return to Iowa City for her senior season with her stardom at an all-time high.
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At the Iowa State Fair, which runs from Aug. 10 to 20, a butter sculpture of Clark was revealed, taking the legend of Clark to a new level.
Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds posted a photo alongside Clark’s butter sculpture on Thursday, along with the famous Iowa State Butter Cow, which dates back to 1911.
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Clark is not the only Iowa athlete to be featured in butter, with Pro Football Hall of Famer Kurt Warner and Jack Trice, Iowa State’s first African-American athlete, also receiving the honor.
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The Iowa State football stadium is named after Trice.
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Clark and the Hawkeyes became household names after defeating South Carolina in the Final Four, snapping a 42-game winning streak for the Gamecocks.
They went on to lose to LSU in the most-viewed women’s college basketball game on record, with 9.9 million viewers tuning in, according to ESPN.
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The hype around Clark’s senior season started almost immediately after Iowa’s loss, with fans clamoring to get a chance to see the 2023 Wooden Award winner in person.
The University of Iowa was forced to pause the selling of season tickets in April for the 2023-24 season due to high demand.
Clark will be eligible to enter the WNBA Draft in 2024, though she could use her COVID-19 fifth year of eligibility.
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"I have another year here [Iowa] and possibly one more after that just because of that. I probably will have to make a decision on that sometime next year. I really have no clue what I’m going to do. Stay for an extra year or leave after next year," Clark said on "The Dan Patrick Show" in February.