Caitlin Clark Reveals to David Letterman That She Used to Drive Her Parents Crazy for Doing This (Exclusive)

The WNBA star says she used to abandon her dad while trick-or-treating in her haste to get the most Halloween candy!

Caitlin Clark has always had a competitive streak — especially when it comes to Halloween candy!

The WNBA star is known for her feistiness on the court, and she’ll go in-depth on the topic with David Letterman as an upcoming guest on Netflix’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal.

In an exclusive clip from the episode, which airs April 8, Clark tells Letterman that when she was a child she would abandon her dad in her haste to get the most candy.

“When we trick-or-treated in Des Moines growing up, I would be like, so sweaty under my costume because I was in a dead sprint from house to house,” the Indiana Fever guard, 23, explained. “I had to have the most candy. That’s how I operated.”

Clark said her dad wouldn’t be able to find her as rushed to collect sweet treats from neighboring houses on Halloween. When she arrived back home, her mom wasn’t pleased.

“My mom would get pissed at my dad because it’s like, ‘Why did you lose our daughter? Why is she running through the neighborhood by herself?’ ” remembered Clark. “But it was just because I was trying to beat everybody.”

Caitlin Clark.Elizabeth Sisson/Netflix

Clark has drawn in fans for dramatic deep-threes and her historic scoring record. Last year was her first season with the Fever, in which she claimed the Rookie of the Year title. That same year, her senior season with the Iowa Hawkeyes, Clark became the overall scoring leader across NCAA Division 1 men and women’s basketball.

Letterman wasn’t surprised to learn that Clark’s desire to win began as a child.

“That encapsulates what I know of you as a human being,” Letterman, 77, told Clark after she shared that she first learned to ride her bike on the same day as her older brother. At the time, she was 3 or 4 years old, she said, and insisted that her parents take off her training wheels to beat out her brother.

“It’s the competitive drive that overrides every little daily occurrence,” the host of the Emmy Award-winning series continued, “Am I right about that?”

The WNBA star chatting with Letterman on his Netflix show.Elizabeth Sisson/Netflix

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“Yeah, sometimes that’s good,” said Clark. “Sometimes that’s bad.”

She said that her desire to win has even upended card games at Christmas.

“Then everybody hates me by the end of the night and I’m like, ‘Oh, great. I ruined Christmas!’ ” the basketball star joked. “I won’t do that this year, though.”