The signs were all there, even from the beginning. The budding potential. The confidence. While she’d yet to truly master her craft, the vision had already been there. She was unafraid to attempt deep threes, long before the range was really there. She was creative and wanted to dish out dimes to her teammates, too. This is what stood out to Iowa associate head coach Jan Jensen when she first saw Caitlin Clark play as a sixth grader, having just joined the All-Iowa Attack AAU program in central Iowa that same year.
“It didn’t take but a second, maybe a minute,” Jensen told the Associated Press. “That little step-back sassy three, this little seventh-, eighth-grader. Yeah, she’s diff. You could just tell. They’re easy to identify but really hard to get. Everybody can see the true, true ones. The trick is to get them.”
Jensen played a major part over the years in recruiting Clark, who was intrigued by Iowa’s…
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