In 1990, 34-year-old Carol Stiff, a basketball junkie who spent years coaching small college ball in the Northeast, packed away her clipboard and took an entry-level programmer position at what she considered a “little company” in Bristol, Conn. Basketball had long been a part of Stiff’s life. Her uncle Don Donoher was one of Bobby Knight’s assistant coaches on the 1984 Olympic gold medal-winning team led by Michael Jordan. By middle school, she was playing youth basketball in Bernardsville, N.J
Inside the decades-long struggle that made the Caitlin Clark phenomenon possible
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The Decades-Long Struggle That Made the Caitlin Clark Phenomenon Possible
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The College Basketball Stars Coming for Caitlin Clark’s Throne
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