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Well, it wasn’t Clark herself. The women’s basketball phenomenon, 22, hadn’t been born yet. But I saw female players exactly like her – tough, talented, and grounded in spiritual values.
The CYO, founded in 1930 by Bishop Bernard Sheil, was our version of organized sports. Decades before Caitlin Clark and the WNBA, I saw fantastic female athletes competing in the gyms throughout the archdiocese. My older sister played on a basketball team for Our Lady of Mercy, a school known at the time for its brilliant head coach, a woman named Susan. The girls’ games regularly drew bigger crowds than the boys’.
It’s no surprise to me that Clark, similar to all the children I went to school with, is a Catholic. It’s clear from the way she carries herself that the spiritual values we learned as children inform her worldview and integrity. “We get to live our faith every day. Dowling starts every day with prayer and ends every day with prayer. This is a big reason why Dowling has such a special culture and is such a special place to go to school,” Clark told theWhile in Jesuit high school at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s, I played football, baseball, and tennis. My sister and my female friends played basketball, tennis, soccer, and field hockey.
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