Alysha Clark

Personal: Clark is the daughter of Kenneth and Jan Clark and 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.

Other Professional Experience: Alysha Clark is a twelve-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 381 games with 248 starts with three teams (Seattle, Washington, and Las Vegas). As a two-time WNBA All-Defensive Team selection, she owns a 6.9 career scoring average and grabs 3.5 rebounds per outing. Clark spent her first nine seasons with the Seattle Storm, appearing in 273 career games with 200 starts in Seattle. She averaged 6.7 points and 3.5 rebounds per contest for the Storm. 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 also a member of the WNBA All-Defensive Second Team and fashioned a 9.6 point-per-game average in 2019 while earning a starting assignment in 31 of 32 games.

Prior to the 2021 season, she signed a two-year contract with the Washington Mystics. She missed the 2021 season due to injury but started 29 games during the 2022 campaign. She averaged 8.0 points per game while shooting 46.4 percent from the field. Clark spent the last two seasons with Las Vegas 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 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.

Clark has also played overseas in France, Turkey, Poland, and Israel. She was named the 2010-11 EuroBasket.com Domestic Player of the Year and All-Israeli First Team selection while playing for Hapoel Rishon Lezion in Israel. She guided Maccabi Ashdod to the 2015-16 Israeli League title and 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 and led Lyon ASVEL Féminin to the 2018-19 French League title. She was also a member of the 2019-20 French Supercup champion team with Lyon ASVEL Féminin.

International Experience: Clark was a member of the Israel National Team from 2016-18. 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.