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Kate Martin has not forgotten Caitlin Clarkdespite 2272 miles splitting them apart as she fondly re their time with the Iowa Hawkeyes, where they played alongside each other from 2020-2024.
Whilst perhaps not the most talented player to ever come out of the program, the 24-year-old Martin is definitely one of the most popular and is always a welcome sight at the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City.
Always embraced by her old teammates when she sees them, the Golden State Valkyries' guard decided to pay her friends back with a loving post to start 2025 that included Clark, Jada Gyamfi, Monika Czinano and Gabbie Marshall.
"I'd go everywhere with these folks, including into year '25 #newyearswag," Martin wrote to Instagram, with the collage of photos showing the women on the court, at parties and playing around with a mascot statue.
The photos showed being close to family is clearly important to Martin too, as she added her girlfriend, sister and brother-in-law to the snaps, which earned over 115,000 likes on the website.
Together, Clark and Martin helped spur the Hawkeyes on to a national championship game.
Although they were defeated by Angel Reese's LSU Tigers, a year later they rebounded to make the NCAA final again, but lost to the unbeaten South Carolina Gamecocks.
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Martin posted averages of eight points, 2.9 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game, although this is pulled down from her 2019/20 season when she played 24 games but only averaged 8.1 minutes per appearance.
Her final year stats with the Hawkeyes in 2023/24 included 39 starts for 13.1 points, 6.8 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game.
She was then picked in the second round of the 2024 WNBA Draft by the Las Vegas Aces an appeared in 34 games for just two starts, before being selected by the Golden State Valkyries as part of WNBA expansion rules.
The Valkyries will compete at the Chase Center in San Francisco and are the league's 13th team. They will wear violet, gold, black and white and they are coached by Natalie Nakase, previously an assistant with the Aces and the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA.