Caitlin Clark was not included in the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people of 2025, which was launched on Wednesday.
Clark was out of the list despite the fact that the publication appointed her athlete of the year by 2024.
Time also included other athletes in their “most influential” list on Wednesday, including fellow WNBA Breanna Stewart and Naphisa Collier players. The main premise of the place of Stewart and Collier on the list is its recent launch of the “unique” female basketball league as co -founders.
Other athletes included in the list were the American gymnast Simone Biles, the field marshal of the Philadelphia Eagles and the MVP of the Super Bowl, Jalen Hurts, and the swimmer of the Olympic gold medalist of France, Leon Marchand.
The absence of Clark from the list caused questions and criticisms of fans and experts.
Fox Sports presenter, Colin Cowherd, presented awareness about the Desaira when with a pern during his show on Wednesday.
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“That’s idiot! That’s the dester thing I’ve seen!” Cowherd said. “That is a silly list … She is the most influential athlete, I would say that, man or woman in the United States, during the last year.”
Other social media users agreed with Cowherd taking.
“Is Clark the main reason why the league is so popular and is not on the list?” An X user wrote.
Another user asked: “How … how is it out of this list[?] CRAZY!”
Within the impact of Caitlin Clark on male basketball
Caitlin Clark was not included in the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people of 2025. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE through Getty Images)
Clark’s influence on the popularity of female basketball during the last year has been evident in several statistics.
Clark turned fever into the most watched team in the WNBA for a landslide in His rookie yearLike the 14 most seen WNBA season games, they included fever. In addition to that, he broke the record of most of the All-Star votes for any player in the history of the WNBA.
At the beginning of September, the fever of Indiana de Clark played in front of a television audience of 1.26 million viewers in a game against the Minnesota Lynx that was played at the same time as a NFL game of week 1 on Friday by the NFL between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers.
In the first final of Clark’s regular season against the Washington Mystics on September 19, the 20,711 fans who appeared in Capital One Arena established a new record for the regular season of the highest WNBA attended.
Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers of their first playoff game against Connecticut Sun on September 22, while competing with a NFL Sunday. He followed him with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for game 2.
Clark’s influence on the popularity of female basketball during the last year has been evident in several statistics. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, Archive)
But after Clark fever season ended, the WNBA playoffs also saw a strong fall in the spectators.
The first game between the Aces and La Libertad, a rematch of the WNBA finals last year between two of the most popular and successful teams in the League, attracted an audience of only 929,000, which was 50% less than game 1 of the fever against the sun.
Meanwhile, in women’s university basketball, after Clark played in the first game of the female NCAA title to obtain more spectators than men in 2024, sport saw a strong decrease in qualifications this year.
Without Clark in the tournament, the UCONN VS transmissions. UCLA and South Carolina vs. Texas averaged only 3.9 million viewers for ESPN. Marked a 64% decrease in 10.8 million record spectators in 2024, according to Main office sports.
