TIME Magazine’s Tribute to Caitlin Clark Features Photo by Alter High Alum

TIME’s 2024 Athlete of the Year is basketball star Caitlin Clark. TIME’s published tribute to Clark features a photo by Sarah Stier of Getty Images. 

Stier graduated from Archbishop Alter High School in 2014 and earned a photojournalism degree from Ohio University in 2018. Her photo published in TIME shows Clark as first draft pick by the Indiana Fever in the WNBA draft on April 15.

“Clark’s final year at Iowa became so much more than just a senior year of basketball,” said Stier. “I strongly believe that years from now, we will look back on Clark and believe she changed the trajectory of women’s sports in a monumental way.”

Based in New York, Stier is a leading sports photographer. She covered aquatics at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Recent widely published photos by Stier include injured skier Mikaela Shiffrin removed from the course at Killington and baseball star Juan Soto who switched from the New York Yankees to the Mets with a record contract.