Sad news to a ken player of Caitlin Clark.

This season, Iowa State’s Caitlin Clark became the all-time leading scorer in Division I women’s basketball, but which record she broke remains up for debate. Clark passed Washington’s Kelsey Plumb as women’s basketball’s all-time leading scorer, according to an NCAA report. However, the NCAA does not count official women’s basketball records prior to 1982.

During her four seasons at the University of Kansas, Lynette Woodard became the Intercollegiate Association of Women’s Athletics (AIAW) all-time leading scorer. In her four years at Kansas (1978-1982), Woodard scored 3,649 points and Plumb 3,527 points. Clark, like Woodard, is a historic player. She Woodard became the first woman to play for the Harlem Globetrotters. She was also one of the oldest players to join the WNBA when it was founded in 1997.

Clark has garnered attention and attention, but much of that attention has come from players like Woodard. another era

 

When Woodard was at the University of Kansas, the NCAA did not sanction women’s sports. The top women’s basketball team played in her AIAW. The AIAW basically functioned like the NCAA, but with a focus on women’s sports. In addition to women’s basketball, the organization has held championships in other sports such as softball, volleyball, and gymnastics.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, women’s college basketball began to flourish. Title IX served to require high schools and colleges to create more athletic opportunities for women.

But the NCAA, which currently supports Title IX, largely opposes federal policy to expand access to the sport. “From what I saw, it was kind of a forced marriage, especially in terms of how they handled their records. The merger should have happened before they said yes, but at the time we allowed the merger. They wouldn’t have, the men simply wouldn’t accept the merger. And here we are today. The world is changing and some things are being handled incorrectly, but there is always a new day and an opportunity to make things right.

Caitlin Clark passes Pete Maravich for new basketball scoring record