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These were just a few of the personal insights Clark shared during an All-Star Weekend event Glamour co-hosted with Eli Lilly and Company, the Indiana-based company that sponsors Clark\u2019s WNBA team, the Indiana Fever. (Clark is also a Lilly ambassador.) A celebration of women\u2019s sports, health, and community, the event centered around one key statistic from the American Cancer Society: There\u2019s a five-year relative survival rate of up to 99 percent<\/a> when breast cancer is detected early and hasn\u2019t spread beyond the breast. Lilly memorably broadcast this stat at the first Women\u2019s College All-Star Combine during the NCAA women\u2019s Final Four tournament in April, where it outfitted all 30 WNBA draft prospects in matching 99 jerseys<\/a>. They also partnered with Black Health Matters and Meridan Mobile Mammography to bring mobile mammogram units to All-Star Weekend. \u201cI encourage you to spread the news around 99,\u201d Lina Polimeni, Lilly\u2019s chief corporate brand officer, told the crowd at Artsgarden. \u201cMake sure as many people as possible get to know that number and the importance of early screening.\u201d)<\/p>\n \u201cHosting this event during WNBA All-Star Weekend was about more than celebration\u2014it was a statement,\u201d Barry said. \u201cAthletes like Caitlin Clark are redefining what strength, focus, and resilience look like.\u201d<\/p>\n Clark opened up about how she prioritizes both her physical and mental health while navigating a high-pressure profession in the public eye. \u201cObviously I love playing basketball, but it can be stressful having so many eyes on you all the time, and during the season, you\u2019re just going game to game to game,\u201d she said. That\u2019s why she makes sure to enjoy some restorative downtime with her teammates during their travels, even if that\u2019s just going on an evening walk or finding a restaurant to try. Her other favorite way to unwind when she has time: playing golf, which she\u2019s eager to get back to post-injuries. \u201cThis is the first time I haven\u2019t felt like a young body that can run around and sprint every day and just continue to do that,\u201d she said. \u201cBeing a professional athlete, you really have to take care of both your body and your mind\u2014it\u2019s been a journey learning about that.\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s included regularly opening up to a professional about how she\u2019s feeling. \u201cWe have a sports psychologist on our staff who I sometimes meet with multiple times a week, to not only talk about basketball but other things in life, and that\u2019s something that\u2019s been important to me over the course of my career,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t just talk about things that stress me out but also the joys in my life, and that\u2019s always a good reminder and reset for me.\u201d She\u2019s also grown to understand the importance of turning to family, friends, her coach, and her teammates for support. \u201cWhen you have an athlete or role model you look up to, it\u2019s easy to see them as always happy and living a glamorous life, but it\u2019s not always like that,\u201d she said. \u201cWe go through difficult things too, and being able to lean on people and tell them your frustrations or that you\u2019re not OK is really important.\u201d Another mental-health outlet: Clark has a longtime pre-game ritual of journaling. \u201cIt makes me really intentional about what I want to accomplish and is a good reset if I\u2019m feeling nervous or anxious about the game, to kind of wipe that away,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s event\u2014which featured healthy snacks, a skills-and-drills session with a professional coach, Pop-A-Shot, and custom \u201c99\u201d T-shirt-making\u2014also included a fireside chat between two other big names in sports whose lives have been impacted by breast cancer: ESPN SportsCenter anchor and breast-cancer survivor Hannah Storm<\/a> and Juju Watkins<\/a>, University of Southern California guard, who lost her grandmother to breast cancer in 2019. \u201cIt\u2019s so important for women to take the time to put themselves and their health first,\u201d Watkins said. She recalled a time when a girl came to one of her games with a poster with two check boxes on it: beat cancer, and meet Juju. \u201cShe saw me as an inspiration in some way, but I was like, \u2018You\u2019re literally a superhero standing in front of me.\u2019 This topic is so personal to me because of my story with my grandmother. It\u2019s so important to spread the word and the message that even though you can\u2019t necessarily prevent cancer, you can get ahead of it.\u201d Storm added some of her own perspective as a recent cancer survivor. \u201cIf you find your cancer early\u2014which happened to me last year\u2014you can have up to a 99 percent survival rate. That\u2019s why it\u2019s really, really important to do that testing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n Attendees included NBA players Tyus Jones and Tre Jones; Caitlin\u2019s Fever teammate Lexie Hull; UCONN Huskies forward Sarah Strong; former WNBA stars like ESPN host\/analyst Chiney Ogwumike<\/a>, podcaster\/analyst Renee Montgomery<\/a>; comedians Leslie Jones and Cedric the Entertainer, and TV stars like The Home Edit\u2019s Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer, a breast-cancer survivor, and Bethenny Frankel of Real Housewives of New York City. \u201cWe always need to be reminded as women that [breast cancer] can happen to anyone at any age,\u201d she said in her Instagram Story from the event. \u201cI love that Glamour is here with Lilly raising awareness about early breast cancer screening.\u201d<\/p>\n Getty Images<\/p>\n The main takeaway from an event filled with unique personalities and perspectives: For women, who often are so busy taking care of others, it\u2019s crucial to prioritize health, whether that\u2019s doing regular breast-cancer self-checks and mammograms or just taking time out to reduce stress and find joy. \u201cOur conversation in Indianapolis wasn\u2019t just about basketball; it was about the routines, the mental grit, and the wellness practices that fuel greatness, and the importance of rest and recovery,\u201d Barry said. \u201cCaitlin embodies that power, and we\u2019re proud to spotlight voices like hers that continue to inspire on and off the court. 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