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San Francisco 49ers prima tight extremity George Kittle is still an Iowa Hawkeye astatine heart. That's easy to spot erstwhile he's attending events successful his spare clip astatine nan university. And that includes women's hoops past season, during Caitlin Clark's last twelvemonth successful nan achromatic and yellow.
Kittle and his wife, Claire, a erstwhile Hawkeyes hoops player, met while they were astatine schoolhouse together. So, whenever there's a chance to get backmost to Iowa City, they make nan time.
They did truthful during nan 2nd information of March Madness, erstwhile No. 1 Iowa hosted No. 8 West Virgina astatine Carver-Hawkeye Arena. It's location wherever nan Kittles sewage to acquisition nan madness Clark and her teammates brought to nan building. And they met nan eventual No. 1 wide prime successful nan WNBA Draft.
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Tight extremity George Kittle of nan San Francisco 49ers takes a photograph pinch fans earlier a crippled betwixt nan Iowa Hawkeyes and nan West Virginia Mountaineers during nan 2024 NCAA Women's Tournament astatine Carver-Hawkeye Arena March 25, 2024, successful Iowa City, Iowa. (Matthew Holst/Getty Images)
"She's incredibly personable. She's charismatic. She's conscionable truthful authentic," Kittle told Fox News Digital while discussing his caller advertisement pinch Fast Twitch. "She doesn't clone anything. She's very willing successful everything you're talking about. She's awesome to person a speech with. You tin show really overmuch she loves her teammates."
Kittle was enjoying time pinch Iowa fans who spotted him successful nan crowd during nan game, but aft Clark dropped nan 32 points to thief nan Hawkeyes advance, he was capable to meet nan women's hoops sensation.
It was successful Iowa's training room wherever he witnessed that authentic characteristic he said of.
"We were hanging retired successful nan training room aft nan crippled conscionable to get distant from nan crowd a small bit," he recalled. "She comes in, hugs each nan diversion trainers, talks to everybody, talks to america a small bit, and you conscionable spot really overmuch group attraction for her. She has this unthinkable estimation that she's built time successful and time out. So, she's done that and conscionable truthful excited for her."
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Kittle was besides capable to spot nan different sides to Clark — nan competitor connected nan tribunal and nan humble personification disconnected it.
"You spot really she is connected nan court. She has this competitiveness. She's sewage this occurrence successful her," he said. "But arsenic soon arsenic she gets disconnected nan court, there's this flip of nan switch. She's conscionable Caitlin Clark. To beryllium capable to spell backmost and distant betwixt each that, you person to beryllium very bully to beryllium capable to do that, and she does that flawlessly.
"It's a spectacle [to watch her play] and [I'm] conscionable happy for her success."
Caitlin Clark of nan Indiana Fever poses for a photograph pinch Lin Dunn and Christie Sides during her introductory property convention April 17, 2024, astatine Gainbridge Fieldhouse successful Indianapolis. (Ron Hoskins/NBAE via Getty Images)
As expected, Clark was selected first wide by nan WNBA's Indiana Fever, wherever her beingness has already led to an summation successful play summons and jersey purchases. Kittle understands nan hype.
"With Indiana, nan magnitude of Iowa fans who are going to recreation to spot her play, it's going to beryllium a sold-out stadium each clip they play. It's really nosy to beryllium capable to travel her and her unthinkable journey," he said.
Kittle added that his family will "pretty much" beryllium Fever fans.
"I deliberation I person to opportunity yes," he said. Though he pointed to nan imaginable of a WNBA squad for Golden State heading to nan Bay Area soon, which he will besides support considering he plays there.
And though he was wearing his wife's No. 3 jersey erstwhile he was spotted successful March, he'll beryllium adding a Fever jersey to his postulation soon.
San Francisco 49ers prima George Kittle, a erstwhile Iowa Hawkeye, recalled nan "authentic" relationship he had pinch Caitlin Clark (Getty Images)
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"I'll decidedly person a Caitlin Clark jersey astatine immoderate point," he said.
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Scott Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
