Cameron Brink has become a tunnel walk star in the WNBA—and it’s all because of her mom.
“I’m very thankful for her,” the Los Angeles Spark small forward said in a discussion at House of Robb San Francisco ahead of NBA All-Star Weekend. “She’s kind of given me the blueprint on how to find shoes that fit, clothes that fit pants that are long enough. So she’s definitely my style icon, and she’s giving me confidence as a tall woman to really just like love my height.”
At six feet, four inches tall, the Stanford NCAA champ knows it can be a struggle to find clothes that work for her and still look stellar. And since Bain-Brink stands six feet, three inches tall herself, she knew how to find pieces that do all that and more.
“I wouldn’t trade my height for the world,” Brink said. “It means everything to me. It makes me feel unique and beautiful and statuesque, and it’s because I’ve had the most lovely example.”
That stylish example has definitely permeated into Brink’s fashion game during her first year in the WNBA, which has seen the profile of its tunnel walk grow over the past year. Brink said the media has paid more attention to players’ looks over the last 12 months, thanks to the sudden growth of the WNBA and women’s sports in general. Dressing up before games, though, is a mentality that Brink is all too familiar with.
Cameron Brink pointing toward her mother in the crowd alongside Robb Report‘s Jeremy Repanich.
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“I don’t know about you guys, but ‘look, good feel, play good’ is something I live by,” she said.
Brink thinks plenty of her fellow WNBA stars are killing the tunnel fashion game, too. She said Kysre Gondrezick, of the Chicago Sky, and Nika Mühl, of the Seattle Storm, are both standouts. Brink also shouted out her her teammates’ style, including forward Rickea Jackson…