No reason to stay mum about the brilliance of sporting mothers

In Ieva Bagdanavičienė, Killester and Irish basketball has another powerful role model.

InsureMyHouse.ie Paudie O'Connor Cup Final, National Basketball Arena, Dublin 22/1/2023 Trinity Meteors vs Killester Killester's Ieva Bagdanaviciene celebrates with her daughter Atene Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

Have you recovered from the Caitlin Clark hysteria yet? 

Her high-scoring heroics en route to US college basketball’s NCAA finals has her hyped as the sort of transformative player who could blow up the women’s professional game and she is expected to be picked up by the Indiana Fever at the WNBA Draft on Monday.