This is pretty cool. it looks like Kate Martin, Gabbie Marshall, and Jade Gyamfi were there on stage with Caitlin Clark when the host says good night and SNL plays the song for the closing credits at the end of the show.
Iowa star Caitlin Clark was a special guest on Saturday Night Live on April 13, two days before the WNBA draft takes place where Clark is expected to be the No.
www.si.com
Again, if you were Gabbie, Kate, Jada growing up, realizing that you actually would wind up playing for a D1 program, and then actually joining that program....
They did not think:
-they would be able to pick up some decent money doing TikToks for tax software, or getting a slice of the dough from pizza sales for a pizza named after you, or a share of some of the cash from Raygun on tee-shirts sold.
-they would be playing in packed arenas for virtually an entire season
-they would be playing regular season games on broadcast network prime time slots, let alone in front of a TV audience of 6 million, 8 million....damn near 20 million.
-they had dreams of playing in Final Fours, but if they were honest, they would say that they were more 'dreams' than very good chances. A goal. A legit goal. But, statistically fairly low chance.
-that they could turn on ESPN after any game, or see ESPN popping up in their feed with highlights that they were involved in. I mean, how many people saw the replays of Gabbie getting that tipped rebound, and pass it to a streaking Clark who then pulled up for a monster bomb to break the women's NCAA record?
And in their wildest dreams, they never even thought they wind up on the set of something like SNL.
I'm going to go ahead and say that even Clark never dreamed of some of this stuff. Yah, I'm sure she expected *some* of this. But not anything remotely like this. And no missteps so far.
What a damn ride.
Again, I hope someone writes a book. Because it had to have been just a madhouse at times. And somehow the team and coaches stayed focused. I can think of only one instance where it seemed like any of it got to anybody.