Caitlin Clark rookie scoring record tracker: Fever star has chance to make even more history by season end.
Caitlin Clark is the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer, for men or women, with 3,951 points to her name at the collegiate level. Early in her professional career, though, she’s made her biggest mark as a playmaker. That’s started to change since the Olympic break, and the Indiana Fever star is now in striking distance of the all-time rookie scoring record, which Seimone Augustus has held since 2006. For the season, Clark is averaging 18.7 points per game, which ranks ninth in the league. Post-Olympics, though, she’s averaging 24.6 points, good for third in that span. On Sunday, she passed Tamika Catchings for the Fever’s rookie scoring record.
Clark has seven games left to surpass Augustus, and if she keeps up her post-Olympic pace, she will pass Augustus with 128 points on September 19, when the Fever play the Dallas Wings. Additionally, if Clark keeps up her current full season pace, she will pass Augustus on September 15.
Single-season rookie scoring record
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layer |
Team | Season | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seimone Augustus | Lynx | 2006 | 744 |
| A’ja Wilson | Aces | 2018 | 682 |
| Arike Ogunbowale | Wings | 2019 | 630 |
| Cappie Pondexter | Mercury | 2006 | 624 |
| Cynthia Cooper-Dyke | Comets | 1997 | 621 |
| Breanna Stewart | Storm | 2016 | 621 |
| Caitlin Clark | Fever | 2024 | 617 |
Of course, it’s worth noting the league now has 40-game regular seasons, so Clark has six more games than Augustus did when she set the record. At the same time, Augustus had six more games than Cynthia Cooper-Dyke did in 1997, when she set the original mark. But then, because the WNBA didn’t start until 1997, Cooper-Dyke was 34 as a rookie and had already been playing professionally for a decade.
