People love the long shots. People love the good passing.
People love the fire. Caitlin Clark might just be the
most talked about athlete in the country right now.
If you're curious how she fuels her fire on the
court,
look no further. The ESPN Plus series Full Court Press
debuted at the beginning of the
2024 WNBA season, coinciding with Clark's professional debut with the
Indiana Fever.
The series documented the day-to-day lives of three women's basketball
superstars across several months,
particularly Clark during the preseason for her senior year at
the University of Iowa,
the season, the NCAA Tournament,
and off court life. Throughout the making of Full Court
Press,
producer Hannah Baer maintained daily contact with Clark on filming
days.
She even volunteered to provide Clark's breakfast,
Which all into a routine favor throughout the
2024 season. Bear typically brought Clark a fast food style
bacon,
egg and cheese breakfast sandwich,
along with an elaborate coffee drink,
usually an iced macchiato with vanilla sweet cream cold foam.
Full Court Press director Kristen Lapis told Forbes it is
the most classic college breakfast order.
Yes, Caitlin Clark is an athlete,
but she was also a recent college student so she
could actually handle a fast food breakfast without consequence.
Playing in a high level college or professional basketball game,
particularly if you're a team leader or under the pressure
of being a superstar,
requires a lot of energy.
Hardest part about being Caitlin Clark having to feel like
you're always like on.
That means a high intake of calories.
As such, Clark loads up on carbohydrates and quick acting
sugars just before the start of a game to help
ensure solid first half play.
At halftime, Clark takes in even more carbohydrates to keep
going through the rest of the game.
So it's no surprise that at a preseason game in
Dallas,
Clark was seen with Honey Stinger Energy Chews.
These are fruit flavored Nuggets that are not all that
different from candy but have a little more nutritional value.
Apart from being a source of sugary calories,
they're enhanced with vitamin C and made with real honey.
During her college ball days at the University of Iowa,
Clark was spotted grabbing a fast calorie and energy boost
with a serving of utensil free applesauce.
She would eat different kinds,
but her preferred brand and variety seems to have been
a standard apple flavor of tubed Go go squeeze,
marketed generally as a kids lunchbox side item,
but clearly more than good enough to fuel a top
athlete.
Following a typical college basketball game,
which for Caitlin Clark typically meant scoring around 28 points,
the superstar was understandably pretty hungry.
Her favorite post game meal would be a carbohydrate loaded,
bat laden calorie bomb for the average diner,
but not for one of the world's top athletes.
When asked about her favorite thing to eat after a
game while she was working to recover her energy,
Clark didn't hesitate to name three of her most reliable
choices.
The chicken parm, the pasta
and a big glass of chocolate
milk. Why not add some sugar to all those carbohydrates
and all that dairy too?
While playing for Iowa, Clark also looked forward to a
serving of warm chocolate chip cookies after a game.
Even better, these have been baked at home and brought
to the game by her mother for both Clark and
her teammates to enjoy.
Caitlin Clark grew up in West Des Moines,
IA, and then moved across the state to Iowa City
to play for the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Despite that distance, she could rely on the supermarket she
grew up with,
Hy Vee. The chain has dozens of stores across Iowa
and throughout the Midwest.
Over the years, Clark has grown to love the chain's
in house hot Chinese American bar selections and its variety
of baked goods.
In a 2022 TikTok video,
Clark described her affinity for Hy Vee's high Chai entrees
after she tucked into a dish of vegetable low main
noodles.
She said you can't go wrong with any sort of
high Chai.
My favorite, it's definitely broccoli beef,
that's what I get. She also lauded the chain's egg
rolls,
deeming them to be her Chinese appetizer preference.
Edging up Crab Rangoon while sampling a Hy Vee chocolate
covered Old Fashioned doughnut,
Clark fondly recalled a Saturday morning ritual of her youth
when she'd get to grab her favorite treat,
a chocolate Long John from the store's bakery.
Chocolate makes everything better. Clark is such a Hy Vee
fan that in
2024, she launched a limited edition cereal stocked exclusively by
the supermarket chain.
Caitlin's Crunch time consists of Frosted Flakes made from corn
and barley.
Profits from sales with the cereal go to the nonprofit
Caitlin Clark Foundation,
which focuses on a variety of youth centered causes and
educational support,
nutrition and sports opportunities. Unfortunately,
Hyvee doesn't have any locations in Indiana,
so Clark will have to drive back home to Iowa
or pop over to Illinois to get her favorites from
the chain during the WNBA season.
What most Americans eat on Thanksgiving is not part of
their daily diet.
It's a special annual occasion centered on gorging oneself on
food,
after all, so cranberry sauce is not something many folks
are going to be eating most days.
That said, we've all got opinions about what should and
shouldn't be on the table on Turkey Day,
and Caitlin Clark does too.
Clark has some definite favorites.
She sat in an Iowa Hot Guys team video.
The best is mashed potatoes and gravy.
And then you just pour so much gravy on it
that it overflows onto your entire plate and you just
have a full of gravy on your plate.
On the other side of the spectrum,
Clark doesn't dig swapping out a holiday Turkey with an
alternative.
She went so far as to declare ham scary and
gross,
before adding that she's also not particularly a fan of
cranberry sauce either.