Caitlin Clark Supplements Rookie Salary By Taking Adjunct Professor Of Basketball Job

INDIANAPOLIS—Saying she figured she could do course prep while traveling to away games on the team bus, WNBA star Caitlin Clark told reporters she had begun supplementing her rookie salary this week with a second job as an adjunct professor of basketball.

“I’m teaching a freshman-level Intro to Basketball Studies course on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and a senior seminar on dribbling Tuesdays and Thursdays,” the Indiana Fever guard said as she sat in a cramped cubicle during her scheduled office hours at Butler University’s Department of Basketball.

“It’s only 20 paid hours a week and no benefits, but between this and my job with the Fever, I’m hoping to cover my basic living expenses. Plus, it gets my foot in the door in case a tenure-track position ever opens up—although those full-time professors of basketball never seem to leave.

I don’t have an advanced degree or anything, but the students still call me Professor Clark, which is pretty cool.” Clark later confirmed she was commuting an hour to Bloomington so she could take night courses at Indiana University and eventually earn a Master of Basketball Arts and Sciences degree.