Nike Caitlin 1 “Caitlin Blue” Releases · Chronopin

Nike Caitlin 1 “Caitlin Blue” Releases · Chronopin

The Nike Caitlin 1 ‘Caitlin Blue’ releases on October 1, 2026, the debut colourway of Caitlin Clark’s first signature basketball shoe^[1][3][4][5]
It drops alongside ‘Warning Code’, the other of two colourways on that date, as the first of six Caitlin 1 colourways running to December 2026^[4][5]
Retail is $140 in unisex/adult sizing, $115 Grade School and $105 Preschool; Sole Retriever also showed a ‘Live Price’ of $498 against the $140 retail^[1][3]
Style code IH7423-400, colourway described as Racer Blue/Multi-Color^[1][3][5]
The links disagree on where to buy: Sole Retriever says ‘Nike and select retailers online and in-store’, Sneaker Freaker lists Nike and Dick’s Sporting Goods for this pair specifically, and SneakerFiles lists Nike, Foot Locker, DSG and Hibbett^[1][3][5]
SneakerFiles is the odd one out on the pairing of code to date: it files IH7423-400 (Racer Blue/Multi-Color) under ‘Multi-Color’ at Holiday 2026 and instead dates a separate ‘Racer Blue’ (IH7423-100) to October 1, 2026 — and gives that same code and colour description to ‘Snow White’ at Holiday 2026, contradicting itself; the newer Sole Retriever release page and Sneaker Freaker’s style-code table both tie IH7423-400 to Caitlin Blue on October 1^[1][3][5]
Clark told the Kelce brothers on the New Heights podcast that ‘the technology that we’re gonna put into it isn’t anything that they’ve ever put into a basketball shoe before’, which the articles take to mean Opticast^[1][3]
Clark on the shoe: ‘Having my own shoe has been a dream for as long as I can remember... I wanted it to reflect how I play—fast, confident, and ready to let it fly’^[1]
She teased the launch by changing her Instagram handle to ‘caitlin1’ and posting close-ups of the upper, and revealed the October 1, 2026 date through a friendship bracelet in a fit check before the Fever game on June 16^[1]
SneakerFiles credits the design to Ben Nethongkome and Alex Zerzan^[3]

Notable features

The Caitlin 1 is Clark’s first Nike signature shoe, engineered around three performance goals she set the design team: a quicker first step, a faster step-back and a faster shot release; Nike says it is tuned for lateral quickness, pace changes and creating separation rather than straight-line speed^[6]
The shoe introduces Nike Opticast, an upper built from cast polyurethane nodes that form a ‘C’ on the lateral side and Clark’s jersey number 2 on the medial side, shaped in a wave pattern to reduce drag^[1][3][5]
Underfoot it uses a Cushlon foam midsole with an Air Zoom Turbo unit in the forefoot^[1][3][5]
For this debut colourway Nike and Clark ‘take inspiration from the depth of the sky, the infinite possibilities it represents, and Caitlin Clark’s unlimited range on the court’^[1]
Signature details include a double Swoosh, one semi-translucent Swoosh layered over another to form two ‘C’s, 22s and CCs molded into the upper, her signature on the heel, and messages reading ‘It was never a long shot’, ‘Shoot More Threes’ and ‘From Anywhere’^[2][6]