Caitlin Clark's NCAA scoring record inspires next generation

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Sports milestones tend to be marked as moments in time, progressive steps forward celebrating the beauty, power and evolution that allows for generational talents to emerge and records to be broken.

Caitlin Clark is the latest generational talent. But her ascendance as the No. 1 scorer in NCAA women's basketball history comes at a time we've been waiting on, decades in the making. We have had our various eras before -- from Billie Jean King to Cheryl Miller, Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain, Jennie Finch and Candace Parker, Serena Williams and Simone Biles.

These women, through their own moments in time, slowly convinced the general public to see them as…