Alysha Clark

Personal: She is the daughter of Kenneth and Jan Clark and is one of six children in her family. She majored in electronic media journalism at Middle Tennessee. She was named 3A Miss Basketball as a senior in high school and also received Tennessee Gatorade Player of the Year recognition in high school. She has two dogs named Sly and Cecil. She did not start playing sports until she was in middle school. She enjoys reading, cooking, DIY projects, and spending time with her family and friends, and she also likes to volunteer. She works as a mentor and public speaker. Her proudest accomplishment is starting a toy drive for Seattle Children’s Hospital. She knows how to speak Spanish and wears No. 7 because it is her favorite number.

2025 Season: Clark was selected to the Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball All-Defensive Team. She finished the season in 15th place with 3,548 leaderboard points and surpassed 500 leaderboard points in a game twice. She earned Game MVP recognition three times. As a starter in all 12 games, she posted five double-digit scoring performances. She averaged 10.2 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. She shot 46.4 percent from the field, converting 51-of-110 attempts, including 14-for-53 from three-point range. She concluded the season by scoring in double figures in four of the final five games. She opened her Athletes Unlimited career by earning MVP 3 honors against Team Harrison, scoring 20 points after making 9-of-17 field goal attempts and grabbing four rebounds. She recorded her first double-double in Athletes Unlimited against Team Siegrist on February 20, setting season highs with 21 points and 14 rebounds. She converted 9-of-12 field goal attempts, including a 3-for-5 effort from long range, to earn MVP 2 accolades and 583 leaderboard points. She ended Week Three by registering a season-high 626 leaderboard points against Team Harrison. She was honored as the game’s MVP 1 choice after scoring 16 points with eight rebounds and three assists. She added 11-point efforts against Team Bradford on February 27 and Team Siegrist on March 2 during Week Four. She narrowly missed a double-double against Team Westbrook on February 7 after tallying eight points with 11 rebounds.

Other Professional Experience: Clark is a thirteen-year WNBA veteran who was selected by San Antonio with the No. 17 overall pick in the 2010 WNBA Draft. She is a three-time WNBA champion who has played in 423 games with 263 starts across three teams: Seattle, Washington, and Las Vegas. She won the 2018 and 2020 WNBA titles with Seattle before helping Las Vegas claim the 2023 championship. She is a two-time WNBA All-Defensive Team selection who owns a 6.6 career scoring average while grabbing 3.4 rebounds per game. She spent her first nine seasons with the Seattle Storm, appearing in 273 career games with 200 starts in Seattle from 2012-20. She averaged 6.7 points and 3.5 rebounds per contest. She posted a career-high 10.0 scoring average during the 2020 campaign while starting 22 games en route to WNBA All-Defensive First Team recognition. She was a member of the WNBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2019, where she also fashioned a 9.6 point per game average while earning a starting assignment in 31-of-32 games. She signed a two-year contract with the Washington Mystics prior to the 2021 season, but she missed the 2021 campaign due to injury before starting 29 games in 2022. She averaged 8.0 points per game while shooting 46.4 percent from the field. She played for Las Vegas in 2023 and 2024 after signing with the Aces on February 1, 2023. She was honored as the 2023 Sixth Player of the Year by the Associated Press and the WNBA after guiding the Aces to the 2023 WNBA title by averaging 6.7 points per game over 39 appearances. She played in 40 games during the 2024 campaign with 18 starts, scoring 6.0 points per game while grabbing 3.6 rebounds per contest. She is a two-time recipient of the monthly WNBA Community Assist Award. She returned to Seattle for the 2025 season where she played in 27 games with seven starts before being traded to Washington on August 5, 2025. She competed in 15 games with the Mystics with eight starts. She has also played overseas in France, Turkey, Poland, and Israel. She was named the 2010-11 EuroBasket.com Domestic Player of the Year and an All-Israeli First Team selection while playing for Hapoel Rishon Lezion in Israel. She guided Maccabi Ashdod to the 2015-16 Israeli League title. She was honored as the league’s Player of the Year, Domestic Player of the Year, and Forward of the Year. She piloted CCC Polkowice to the 2017-18 BLK Championship while earning Most Valuable Player distinction. She led Lyon ASVEL Féminin to the 2018-19 French League title and was a member of the 2019-20 French Supercup champion team with Lyon ASVEL Féminin.

International Experience: She was a member of the Israel National Team from 2016 to 2018. She averaged 20.2 points and 9.0 rebounds over six games during the 2016 European Championship.

At Middle Tennessee: She was a two-year letter winner at Middle Tennessee after playing her freshman and sophomore seasons at Belmont. She appeared in 123 career games, totaling 2,865 points with 1,378 rebounds in her college career. She also collected 260 steals and 267 assists and was inducted into the Middle Tennessee Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020. Clark was a six-time All-America selection with the Blue Raiders. She garnered a pair of Associated Press All-America Second Team commendations and also secured WBCA Honorable Mention All-America notice in both seasons at Middle Tennessee. She received USBWA All-America plaudits as a redshirt senior and collected Second-Team All-America recognition from CBSSports.com during the 2008-09 season.

Clark was a two-time selection as Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year at Middle Tennessee. She also claimed Most Outstanding Player distinction at the Sun Belt Conference Tournament in both seasons. She was a finalist for the 2009-10 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award and received Sun Belt Conference Player of the Week distinction 12 times over two seasons. She ranks 10th in Middle Tennessee history with 1,756 points over two seasons and owns the top six single-game scoring performances in program history, including a school-record 50 points against Troy on February 11, 2009. She also owns MTSU records for career scoring average (27.9) and field goal percentage (.611). She is third in school history, averaging 10.7 rebounds per game, and ranks second in school history with 37 career double-doubles and 55 consecutive games with 10 or more points. She led NCAA Division I in scoring during both seasons with the Blue Raiders. She was a starter in all 63 games at Middle Tennessee and set a school record by scoring 935 points during the 2008-09 season. She established a new single-season program mark with a nation-leading 28.3 scoring average during the 2009-10 campaign. She made a school-record 22 field goals against South Alabama on February 21, 2010, and ranks fifth in program history by making 429 free throws, including a school-record 237 free throws during the 2008-09 campaign. She holds a share of the MTSU single-game free throws made record (16), doing so twice in her career.

As an outstanding student, she received Third-Team Academic All-America® honors from CoSIDA in 2009-10. She was a two-time Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year honoree at Belmont, where she scored 1,109 points in two seasons. She became the fastest player in program history to reach 1,000 points, doing so in just 52 games, and guided the Bruins to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in school history as a sophomore. She ranked third in NCAA Division I by grabbing 12.7 rebounds per game during the 2006-07 season. She posted 20 double-doubles as a sophomore, including three games with 20 or more rebounds. She established a new Belmont single-game record with 23 rebounds against ETSU. She became the first player in Atlantic Sun Conference history to earn the league’s Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year awards in the same season after ranking 16th in the nation by averaging 20.0 points per game. She also grabbed 10.9 rebounds per outing to rate 12th in the nation and led the Atlantic Sun in points scored, field goals made, and free throws made.