Perspective: Women in college should have the same opportunity as the men playing on the same courts or fields to leave it behind for the professional ranks, Kevin B. Blackistone writes.
So although Clark is a junior, like Kris Murray, and is 21, as was Keegan when he turned pro a year ago, she is ineligible to take her talents to the WNBA. With a January birthday, she won’t be allowed to do so until 2024, when she is a senior. That’s ridiculous. Unfair. Inequitable. Straight-up sexist.
Clark hasn’t complained. She even suggested on the “Dan Patrick Show” that she might remain in college a fifth year. “That’s where I want to be [the WNBA], but I have another year here [Iowa] and possibly one more after that just because of covid,” Clark told . “I probably will have to make a decision on that sometime next year. I really have no clue what I’m going to do, stay for an extra year or leave after next year.”, Angel Reese — also locked out of the WNBA because of its age and class requirements — said she was in no rush to get to the pros because of this newfangled NIL landscape, which allows college athletes to earn endorsement money selling themselves to sponsors.
. “The money I’m making is more than some of the people that are in the league that might be top players.”for the top picks. I’ve yet to see a 1099 for what anyone in this new class of college athletes is making, but I’ve heard the numbers, as have you. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, into the millions for some. And sadly, it seems, many of the women’s athletes are having to accept
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