Caitlin Clark shared how her father helped her become an elite three-point shooter

Before Caitlin Clark broke Indiana Fever records in the WNBA, she was shooting hoops in her driveway.

Clark was apparently so determined to improve her long-distance shooting that she made a rather unusual request to her father during her childhood: to repave the driveway.

“I’m begging my dad to tear up some grass and pour more concrete so I can have a complete three-point line on my driveway,” Clark told Jon Wertheim on CBS 60 minutes. “Because it was kind of slanted, our driveway was slanted, so I only had a three-point line on one side of the driveway. So I told my dad he had to tear up all the grass, and he did.”

A small patch of grass wouldn’t stand in the way of Clark and her lofty dreams.

The WNBA Freshman of the Year wrote her name in the record books during her college years at Iowa, setting Big Ten and NCAA single-season records for most three-pointers, to name a few, in her senior year.

Clark then embarked on a historic rookie season in which she set the league’s single-season rookie records for points, assists and three-pointers, among numerous other accomplishments.

Clark saw her WNBA season end badly in the first round of the playoffs when the Fever were knocked off by the Connecticut Sun, but she’s ready to come back stronger than ever next year and will no doubt be practicing her signature logo three this offseason .