A generational talent took the WNBA by storm in 2024, as Caitlin Clark  made the step up from college basketball to the professional game.

Drafted as the No. 1 pick by the Indiana Fever, Clark was an All-Star in her  first season in the WNBA, and won  the Rookie of the Year award.

Now, not content with being women’s basketball’s rising star, she wants  to add another string to her bow: she’s out to co-own a soccer club.

The 22-year-old point guard is part of  a bid to establish a Cincinnati franchise in the NWSL, the United States’ professional women’s soccer league.

Clark has joined an ownership group that also includes the proprietors  of FC Cincinnati, a men’s soccer franchise in its sixth season in MLS.

The NWSL is to expand from 14 to 16 teams in 2026. Boston has won one  of the new franchises, and the other will go to 'Cincy', Cleveland or Denver.

Clark might just make the difference: the WNBA superstar's involvement in the Cincinnati project would represent a massive draw for soccer fans.

Clark’s interest in soccer is nothing new. She played at high school - and was very useful indeed. In one season, she scored 23 goals in 13 games. 

“I think she probably could have been the same sort of talent in soccer that she is in basketball,” her father, Brent, told US media outlet Hawk Central.

Clark chose basketball and hasn’t looked back. In four years in the college game with Iowa, she became the top points scorer in NCAA history.

We’ll never know how far Clark could have gone in soccer as a player,  but she may now get the chance to achieve big things as an owner.