Caitlin Clark’s Swiftie recruitment gets Travis Kelce’s stamp of approval

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Caitlin Clark may be known for her basketball skills, but she’s proving she’s got recruitment game too — this time, for Taylor Swift‘s fandom.

Appearing on New Heights with Travis and Jason Kelce on Thursday, January 2, the 22-year-old WNBA star revealed how her mom, Anne Nizzi-Clark, became a “full Swiftie” after attending the 34-year-old “Cruel Summer” singer’s Eras Tour.

“My mom was begging me to take her,” Clark shared. “She’s like, ‘I gotta go. Everybody’s talking about it.’ I’m like, ‘Okay, okay.'”

The mother-daughter duo attended Swift’s stop at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and according to Clark, the show was “electric.”

“It’s just a great show and a lot of fun,” she said. “Turned my mom into a full Swiftie.” Without skipping a beat, the Kelce brothers nodded their heads in approval and said, “Nice!” simultaneously. (Travis, 35, and Swift have been dating since September 2023.)

This wasn’t Clark’s only Eras Tour experience. She attended three concerts during the 14-time Grammy winner’s record-breaking tour — which kicked off on March 17, 2023 and ended on December 8, 2024 — starting with an early stop in Minneapolis. “I went with some of my college friends and we had a good time together,” she shared.

The basketball phenom even got the full Swiftie experience with an armful of friendship bracelets — so many, in fact, that she had to remove them because “my circulation was getting cut off,” she joked during a panel at the Women’s Leadership Summit in November. “Everyone was just chucking their bracelets at me.”

Clark’s Eras Tour adventures didn’t stop there. In a December interview with TIME, the Indiana Fever guard recalled meeting Swift and Travis after her Indianapolis show on Friday, November 1. According to Clark, the pop superstar gifted her multiple bags of merchandise and a handwritten note. In the message, Swift called the all-time NCAA points leader “inspiring” to watch and added that she and “Trav” were excited to catch one of her games.

2024 was nothing short of monumental for the “Shake It Off” singer. Alongside wrapping up her Eras Tour, which grossed $2 billion and spanned over 10 million fans worldwide, Swift won two Grammy Awards for her album Midnights and secured six nominations for the upcoming 67th Grammy Awards, which will air in February.

Reflecting on the tour during her final show in Vancouver last month, Swift called it “the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, and most challenging thing I’ve ever done in my entire life.”