When Team USA announced its roster for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games earlier this year, Indiana Fever rookie sensation Caitlin Clark was not among the players selected to represent the United States. And it sounds like some key members of USA basketball are now acknowledging that was a bit of a mistake.
During a recent interview, South Carolina Gamecocks women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley, who is a member of the U.S. Olympic Selection Committee, said that Caitlin Clark is clearly “head and shoulders” above a lot of players and probably would get more consideration if the committee “had to do it all over again.”
“If we had to do it all over again, the way that she’s playing, she would be in really high consideration of making the team because she is playing head and shoulders above a lot of people,” Staley said after the U.S. men topped Serbia on Sunday afternoon.
Obviously, it’s now too late for Clark to be added to the roster as the Olympics have already begun. So Team USA will have to try to win a gold medal without her and she will have to wait another four years before she has another chance to play in the Olympics.
But it’s pretty clear that it was a mistake not to put her on the roster in the first place.
