Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark knows what it’s like to be constantly under the microscope, and she hopes Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are enjoying a break from all the scrutiny.
Though Swift and Kelce, both 35, have temporarily receded from the spotlight, the reigning WNBA Rookie of the Year hopes both can make it to a Fever game this season.
“I feel like they’re also living — they’re in vacation mode right now,” Clark, 23, told USA Today in a story published Wednesday, May 21.
“So I hope they enjoy a nice little break out of the spotlight,” she added. “But I’m sure they’ll be cheering for the Fever either way.”
Clark struck up a friendship with Swift last year when she attended two of the “Cruel Summer” singer’s Eras Tour shows in Indianapolis. The Fever guard watched the concerts from Swift’s private suite at Lucas Oil Stadium alongside Kelce and Swift’s mom, Andrea.
After the shows, Swift gifted Clark some Eras Tour merch and left a note saying she was hoping to attend a Fever game. The singer also invited Clark to one of Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs games, which Clark took her up on during the 2024 NFL Playoffs.
Clark watched the Chiefs win the AFC Championship game at Arrowhead Stadium with Swift in a private suite as cameras caught the pair hugging and celebrating after Kelce scored a touchdown.
And as Clark revealed on a January 2025 episode of Travis and his brother Jason’s “New Heights” podcast, her cheers were real.
“I’m a midwest kid,” Clark explained. “I had family in Kansas City and I grew up in Des Moines, Iowa, which is only three hours from Kansas City, so that’s the closest NFL team. My dad was a big Chiefs fan growing up. People think I’m a bandwagon Chiefs fan and I’m like, ‘No! I was there before! Before Patrick [Maholmes] and Travis. We were ride or dies.”
While Swift and Kelce are enjoying some time to themselves, the season is just ramping up for Clark and the Fever. With Clark as popular as ever, one of her new teammates, Sophie Cunningham, compared her to Swift in the offseason.
Cunningham, 28, joked in a February appearance on the “Sports and SHEnanigans” podcast that if Clark is the WNBA’s Swift, then she could be the league’s Sabrina Carpenter.
“It really was a joke,” she told Us Weekly in March. “I think that Taylor Swift has helped Sabrina Carpenter so much, and I think that Caitlin Clark has helped not only her teammates, but our whole league, our whole sport in general, not only here in America, but around the world.”
