Caitlin Clark set for WNBA All-Star three-point contest
Indiana Fever star and All-Star team captain Caitlin Clark will participate in her first professional three-point contest on Friday as part of the WNBA All-Star weekend, the league announced on Tuesday.
Clark will be joined by Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty, Sonia Citron of the Washington Mystics, Kelsey Plum of the Los Angeles Sparks, and Allisha Gray of the Atlanta Dream, the defending champion of the event.
The participants in the Skills Challenge were also announced on Tuesday; both events will be held at the Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis and the broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. ET on Friday.
The All-Star Game will be played on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET, with teams chosen by captains Clark and Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx.
Last season, Gray won the three-point and Skills Challenge titles; he is an All-Star this season and will seek to repeat the feat.
Gray is once again leading the Skills Challenge and is accompanied by Natasha Cloud from New York, Skylar Diggins from the Seattle Storm, Erica Wheeler and Courtney Williams from the Minnesota Lynx.
Ionescu won the three-point contest in 2023 with a record score of 37 in the final round. Clark was an All-Star as a rookie last season, but did not participate in the three-point contest at that time.
Clark’s management team said earlier this year that the young star wanted her first three-point contest to be in Indianapolis during WNBA weekend.
Clark is known for her 3-point shots from the logo, but she has struggled this season from behind the arc, especially after quadriceps and groin injuries forced her to miss nine games. She is shooting only 28.9% (28 of 97) from behind the arc.
However, Clark’s three-point prowess is prodigious: in addition to being the all-time leading scorer in Division I college basketball (3,951 points), Clark also set the D-I career mark for three-pointers (548) while shooting 37.7% at Iowa from 2020-2024. And she led the WNBA last season with 122 three-pointers, shooting 34.4%.
Rhyne Howard of Atlanta currently leads the WNBA with 56 three-pointers and was chosen as an All-Star reserve. But she is out for the rest of July due to a knee injury and will not participate in the All-Star Game. She was replaced by Kayla McBride of Minnesota, who is tied with Plum for second place in three-pointers (50). Gray is fourth with 49 and Ionescu tied for fifth with 47. Citron, a rookie All-Star reserve, has 33 three-pointers this season.
