Caitlin Clark describes rookie WNBA season as ‘life-changing’ and talks about love of Taylor Swift to Kelce brothers

It’s been a busy 12 months for Caitlin Clark. From her rookie WNBA season to attending the Eras Tour, she’s done everything and told the Kelce brothers about it all.

It’s been a busy 12 months for Caitlin Clark. This time last year, she was still in her final season at the University of Iowa. Since then, she has lost in the NCAA women’s basketball national championship game, been drafted first overall into the WNBA, been to multiple shows on Taylor Swift’s ‘Eras Tour’ and been named the Rookie of the Year and All-WNBA first team. And as 2025 kicked off, Clark recapped her momentous year – where she shot to fame and was named Time magazine’s “Athlete of the Year” – with NFL star brothers, Jason and Travis Kelce. Speaking on the Kelce brothers’ “New Heights” podcast, Clark described her debut season in the WNBA as “life-changing” when asked to describe it in two words. “All in a good way. Things just change really fast,” Clark said on the episode released on Thursday. “That’s just how the world works, especially with social media, people see a lot of your life but that’s what makes it fun and why I’ve had so many cool opportunities too.” Clark enjoyed a historic rookie season with the Indiana Fever, coinciding with an unprecedented increase in coverage of the league, with viewership records consistently being broken. The league’s overall attendance increased by 48% year-on-year to its highest level in over 20 years; this phenomenon has been coined “The Caitlin Clark effect.”