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Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Caitlin Clark, Sabrina Ionescu to Face Off in WNBA 3-Point Contest

The prize money for the winner will be more than $62,000, with $60,000 coming from a sponsor secured by the WNBPA.

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The wait is over. Caitlin Clark will participate in her first professional 3-point contest during the 2025 WNBA All-Star weekend.

The WNBA announced Tuesday that Clark will be one of five participants for Friday’s contest. The other four participants are also 2025 All-Stars: Sabrina Ionescu, the event’s record holder, Kelsey Plum, Sonia Citron, and defending champion Allisha Gray.

Clark did not join the contest last year and passed on participating in a special 3-point shooting contest during the 2025 NBA All-Star weekend. ESPN reported she wanted the 2025 WNBA All-Star weekend, which will be hosted by the Indiana Fever, to be her first shootout.

The league also announced the Skills Challenge participants: Natasha Cloud, Skylar Diggins, Erica Wheeler, Courtney Williams, and Gray—who, last year, became the first player in league history to win both events in the same year.

60,000 Reasons

The winner of the WNBA’s 3-point contest and Skills Challenge wins $2,575, according to the league’s current CBA. However, last year, the players’ union announced a partnership with insurance company Aflac that awarded an additional $55,000 to the winner of each challenge. Gray took home more than $115,000 for winning both contests.

The partnership, however, was announced just a day before the 2024 All-Star weekend.

This year, Aflac added an additional $5,000 to the winner of the 3-point contest, an announcement that was made in April. The $60,000 also matches the first-prize purse for the NBA’s 3-point contest winner.

Ratings Win

Day 1 of last year’s WNBA All-Star weekend averaged 695,000 viewers on ESPN, the league’s largest audience for the exhibition contests. But the number has room to grow, considering how more than 20 WNBA telecasts featuring Clark drew more than 1 million viewers last season.

For comparison, the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game averaged 3.44 million viewers on ABC, the league’s most-watched broadcast since Clark was drafted.

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