Caitlin Clark Is ‘Playing Head and Shoulders Above’ Others, Dawn Staley Says

Caitlin Clark’s exclusion from the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team was the biggest talking point of the team’s roster announcement in early June.

Less than two months later, Dawn Staley said Clark’s recent form might have commanded a place on the team.

“Caitlin is just a rookie in the WNBA and wasn’t playing bad, but wasn’t playing like she’s playing now,” Staley, a member of the selection committee that constructed the Team USA roster, told NBC on Sunday.

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“If we had to do it all over again, with the way she’s playing, she would be in really high consideration of making the team because she’s playing head and shoulders above a lot

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