Caitlin Clark Groups Up With State Farm To Launch Their New 'With The Help' Initiative

Along with notching a number of triple-doubles, the WNBA sensation dished out 337 assists within the 2024 season, setting a WNBA all-time single-season file.

Constructing on her on-court success, Caitlin Clark, star of the Indiana Fever, is teaming up with State Farm to assist launch their new initiative, “With The Help,” a platform spotlighting the facility of on a regular basis assist.

Clark, recognized throughout the WNBA for her distinctive passing abilities, is continuous her groundbreaking partnership with State Farm. This time, she’s serving to the insurance coverage firm launch a brand new platform highlighting the worth of real-life assists that always go unrecognized.

In an unique press launch despatched to The Blast, State Farm revealed that Clark, 23, is heading their new “With the Help” marketing campaign, designed to remind clients how they will present help in instances of want. She additionally stars of their new industrial, which showcases how the insurance coverage firm gives “proactive help in house, auto, and private insurance coverage.”

Clark’s new marketing campaign with State Farm will not shock any loyal basketball followers, because the WNBA sensation has been featured within the firm’s promoting supplies since she inked a large NIL (title, picture, and likeness) cope with them in 2023.

She was the insurance coverage large’s first partnership with a collegiate athlete, and on the time of the deal, State Farm’s advertising officer mentioned they had been enthusiastic about Clark serving to them “positively influence communities” and reinforce their “dedication to elevating the visibility of ladies’s sports activities.”

“State Farm is a group that appears out for others, which is strictly the sort of legacy I need to depart past the basketball courtroom,” mentioned Clark. “I’m honored to be the primary faculty athlete to affix the Good Neighbor group – in khakis, in fact – and sit up for rising the ladies’s recreation collectively.”

That very same day, Clark additionally uploaded a enjoyable Q&A video with Jake from State Farm to her TikTok web page.

Within the video, she answered all of Jake’s questions on a few of her on a regular basis preferences, resembling her favourite drink, pizza toppings, sneakers, and extra.

“Large strikes forward with State Farm and Jake from State Farm,” she captioned the video.

Clark is a part of a protracted checklist of high-profile athletes linked with State Farm, together with Patrick Mahomes, Chris Paul, Aaron Rodgers, and USC ladies’s basketball star JuJu Watkins.

As for Clark’s strikes on the courtroom, the Fever guard, who just lately snatched one other triple-double throughout her efficiency in opposition to Angel Reese and the Chicago Sky on Saturday, Might 17, made headlines after she was issued a flagrant foul following a contentious interplay with Reese.

Days later, commentators weighed in on the incident, and one specifically took exception to Clark’s conduct following the foul.

“I haven’t got a difficulty with the foul. I assumed it was a tough foul, yep, I assumed the refs bought it proper,” Sheryl Swoopes mentioned. “My problem wasn’t even with the foul. If you are going to foul any individual, I used to be at all times taught you do not surrender a simple basket, interval. And that is what I assumed Caitlin did. My factor with that was, stand in it. Do not stroll away.”

Swoopes, who performed within the WNBA for 12 seasons and gained 4 championships, continued, “My different problem was … I even have at all times been taught after I performed, go seize your personal teammate, do not come seize my teammate. So, the place Aliyah Boston went over to Angel … to me, you gotta get your personal teammate,” Swoopes mentioned. “I did not have an issue with the foul … I bought points with all the opposite stuff that got here together with that, not that foul.”

After the sport, Clark addressed her flagrant foul on Reese with the media and urged them to not make the state of affairs larger than it wanted to be.

“It was only a good play on the basketball. I am undecided what the refs noticed to improve it. That is as much as their discretion … I wasn’t making an attempt to do something malicious. That is not the kind of participant I’m,” Clark added.

The Fever and Sky will meet 4 extra instances this WNBA season, with their subsequent matchup occurring on June 7, 2025, on the United Middle in Chicago.