INDIANAPOLIS—Saying she figured she might do course prep whereas touring to away video games on the workforce bus, WNBA star Caitlin Clark advised reporters she had begun supplementing her rookie wage this week with a second job as an adjunct professor of basketball. “I’m instructing a freshman-level Intro to Basketball Research course on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and a senior seminar on dribbling Tuesdays and Thursdays,” the Indiana Fever guard stated as she sat in a cramped cubicle throughout her scheduled workplace hours at Butler College’s Division of Basketball. “It’s solely 20 paid hours every week and no advantages, however between this and my job with the Fever, I’m hoping to cowl my fundamental residing bills. Plus, it will get my foot within the door in case a tenure-track place ever opens up—though these full-time professors of basketball by no means appear to go away. I don’t have a complicated diploma or something, however the college students nonetheless name me Professor Clark, which is fairly cool.” Clark later confirmed she was commuting an hour to Bloomington so she might take night time programs at Indiana College and finally earn a Grasp of Basketball Arts and Sciences diploma.
