TakeYourShot22: CC22 Iowa GameDay Anthem 🖤💛 Cinematic Edition 🖤💛 *Nothing Special to See Here… Yeah, Right!* Caitlin Clark comes home. The Caitlin 1 makes its debut. ESPN College GameDay comes to Iowa City. And Hawkeye Nation shows the world what makes Iowa special. From black-and-gold pride and the excitement of GameDay to the unforgettable Iowa Wave at Kinnick Stadium, this original CC22 Iowa GameDay Anthem celebrates more than basketball, football, or a pair of shoes. It's about where you come from, the people who lift you up, and the little things that turn out to be the biggest things of all. *Why the Cinematic Edition?* After making the original Short, I came across the article “Dear WNBA: Caitlin Clark Would Never Say This, So We Will.” Reading it and the heartfelt letters from fans inspired me to make something more. Instead of writing another letter, I decided to make mine a song and a video. A letter to Iowa. To Hawkeye Nation. To the kids waving from the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. And to everyone who makes this place special. *Some things you carry. Some things you keep.* Thank you to the writers and community behind that article for the inspiration. And most of all... *THANK YOU, Caitlin Clark & IOWA . 🖤💛* 🌽 GO HAWKS! 🎵 Original music and video created by TakeYourShot22. Source: TakeYourShot22 Youtube: youtube.com/@TakeYourShot22 Instagram: instagram.com/takeyourshot.2… Tik Tok: tiktok.com/@takeyourshot22 Twitter: www.xitter.cf/TakeYourShot22 Link: youtu.be/38-7QDlpLA4 #CC22 #CaitlinClark #FeverRising #NowYouKnow #FromAnywhere #IndianaFever #WNBA

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Key performers from Iowa’s closed scrimmage win over Oklahoma State, sources told @On3: Dani Carnegie: 31 PTS, 13 REB, 6 AST, 3 STL McKenna Woliczko: 19 PTS, 4 REB Ava Heiden: 12 PTS, 7 REB, 3 STL Audi Crooks: 25 PTS, 8 REB Liv McGill: 24 PTS, 10 AST Stailee Heard: 21 PTS, 7 REB

Man I love Jonquel Jones!!!!!

B1G Bands. Family. Thank you @huskyband 🖤💛💜🤍

Sophie Cunningham was one of the best bench players in the WNBA last year. Only 5 players who played 22 mins or less scored more than her and none were close to doing it on her efficiency... You can dislike her, but pretending that she's not an on-court asset is ridiculous

If I send you this it's because you're overreacting:

I’ll take Kelsey Plum over Kelsey Mitchell

MHA & Sophie might not be the best of the best, but they're both great for CC & the Fever. They grab boards, make their shots and don't take no crap. Again, they're not the best in the league, they don't always hit their shots, but what they do is very much needed. I say keep em

We will donate one million dollars to the University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children's Hospital.. We would like to thank that hospital for everything that they do #PMSLive

Wanted to make sure I congratulated @sophaller on her University Hall of Fame induction this past weekend! Two Hall of Fame inductions in one year… not too bad 😉 congrats, Soph!

The mom of the little boy Caitlin sat with at the children’s hospital during the Iowa game wrote a touching message thanking Caitlin “Thank you for being the bright spot during his darkest days.” This is what it’s all about ❤️‍🩹

Sound off below: do you want to see Sophie back in the Fever uniform next season? ⏬ @IndianaFever

Sophie Cunningham is riding in the back of a pickup truck for Mizzou homecoming. She is the Queen of Missouri.

FINAL THOUGHTS ON THIS PAST WEEK: I've been a Hawkeye fan for more than 40 years, and I'm sitting in my garage close to midnight on Saturday with a drink, watching Caitlin Clark highlights on YouTube and feeling proud as hell. Which is kind of strange when you think about it. Caitlin and the Fever were eliminated from the playoffs this week. Iowa just got rolled by Ohio State. Normally, that sounds like a pretty miserable few days to be an Iowa fan. But somehow, it doesn't feel that way. College GameDay came back to Iowa City. Nike turned Caitlin's shoe launch into an event on the Pentacrest, building a temporary basketball court right next to the GameDay stage. Caitlin came home and was the guest picker. She picked Iowa, of course. 😅 And then came the Wave. After the first quarter, 70,000 people inside Kinnick turned toward the children's hospital. The cameras went up to the windows, where the kids and their families were waving down at the stadium. And standing up there with them, waving back at Kinnick, was Caitlin Clark. Maybe the most famous athlete the University of Iowa has ever produced. One of the most recognizable athletes in the world. And somehow, in that moment, she wasn't a global superstar making an appearance. She was a Hawkeye who came home. One of ours. That's what I've been thinking about tonight. At Iowa, we're probably never going to measure our fandom by a trophy case full of national championships. That doesn't mean winning doesn't matter. Of course it fucking matters. 😂 I wanted the Fever to keep playing. I wanted Iowa to beat the hell out of Ohio State. Losses hurt. Bad seasons piss us off. We bitch about coaches, officials, play calling, recruiting and everything else sports fans bitch about. But the older I get, the more I realize that being a Hawkeye has never really been dependent on any of those things. It's deeper than wins and losses. I've never been part of another collegiate fan base, so maybe others feel the same way about theirs. But Hawkeye fandom has always felt like a family to me. In Iowa City, it's everywhere. You can feel it walking down the street. But I live in Minnesota. And I can't tell you how many times I've been walking through a store wearing an Iowa shirt and heard some complete stranger yell: "LET'S GO HAWKS!" And immediately, you know. You're one of us. A 6'4"-6'5" kid commits to Iowa women's basketball, someone I've never met and probably never will, and my first thought isn't just, "Great pickup." It's: WELCOME TO THE FAMILY. That's what being a Hawkeye feels like. Players come and go. Coaches come and go. Seasons come and go. There are incredible wins we'll talk about for the rest of our lives, and absolutely brutal losses we'd prefer to erase from our memories. But the Tigerhawk remains. The people remain. The family remains. Wins are something Hawkeyes celebrate together. Losses are something Hawkeyes suffer together. But being a Hawkeye? That doesn't change. So yeah. The Fever lost. The Hawks got rolled. And somehow I'm sitting here tonight feeling more proud than ever to say: I'm an Iowa Hawkeye. Always have been. Always will be. 💛🖤 GO HAWKS.

You know why Caitlin. Is never in a presser or on SM playing victim because all that’s ever mattered to her is this right here, the impact she has on the next generation. She doesn’t care what twitter warriors have to say, bc she knows what’s real and what isn’t.