WNBA superstar Caitlin Clark recently suffered a quad injury that will sideline her for a couple of weeks. The Indiana Fever just started their 2025 campaign and will have to make do without their best player.
Head coach Stephanie White recently gave a starting lineup update.
Fever Coach Gives Roster Update Amid Caitlin Clark Injury
Clark has been the face of women’s basketball since leading Iowa to back-to-back national championship game appearances in her final two college seasons. She was named Naismith College Player of the Year those two seasons, and her stardom has done nothing but grow since entering the WNBA.
Indiana selected Clark with the first overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft, and she took the league by storm in her rookie season. Clark was named Rookie of the Year after averaging 19.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, and 8.4 assists. She was also named first-team All-WNBA, an All-Star, and finished fourth in MVP voting.
The Fever went 20-20 in 2024 and made the playoffs for the first time since 2016. They lost to the Connecticut Sun in the first round, but Clark’s arrival instantly made Indiana a contender.
Clark missed time earlier this preseason with a left quad injury, and the issue resurfaced early during the regular season. White recently provided a starting lineup update as Clark will miss at least two weeks. Sydney Colson is expected to be the starter in Clark’s stead, also praising Sophie Cunningham and Lexie Hull have brought off the bench.
Steph White said Syd Colson is going to get the start at point guard against the Mystics tomorrow.
Mentioned she likes what “Sophie and/or Lexie, either one” brings off the bench. pic.twitter.com/3va0up7mlP
— Chloe Peterson (@chloepeterson67) May 27, 2025
USA Today’s Jack McKessy recently wrote about Clark’s injury and White’s comments. The Fever coach said, “I don’t know when it happened. I know [after the Liberty game] we got a message that something was going on with her leg and they were getting an MRI, and then we got the word.”
She went on to say, “Certainly we’d rather have it early than late. It’s a great opportunity for our team to find an identity. It’s a great opportunity for our team to play in a different way. And I also think it’s a great opportunity for Caitlin to watch the game from the sideline and to grow and almost like a coaching kind of mindset, and see some different things that we might be talking about on film, addressing in practice, to see it develop in live action.”
Colson was a second-round pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. Indiana is the 35-year-old’s sixth WNBA team, and she played multiple years in Poland and Israel. Colson was with the Las Vegas Aces for the last three seasons, winning back-to-back championships in 2022 and 2023.
She has big shoes to fill as Clark has averaged 19.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, and 9.3 assists so far this season. Colson’s averages, as expected, are much lower at just 1.3 points, 0.7 rebounds, and 0.3 assists in eight minutes per game.
