Caitlin Clark

Midwestern Fierce: The Making and Meaning of Caitlin Clark takes readers outside of the basketball arena for a Skycam view of the life of one of the greatest athletes America has ever produced.

Author Teresa Mull, herself a former college basketball player, goes to where it all started: West Des Moines, Iowa, where she chronicles the people and places that influenced Caitlin Clark’s rise from a regular Catholic Midwestern kid competing against her brothers in the backyard to a global sports superstar. Through interviews, research, and first-person accounts, Midwestern Fierce also offers a deeper exploration of how Clark, celebrity-athlete-turned-social-lightning-rod, is shaping not just the public’s perception of women’s sports, but our entire culture.

The result is a fascinating account of who Caitlin Clark is, how she became an international phenomenon, and what it all means.