Alysha Clark


Alysha Angelica Clark is an American-Israeli professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association. She was drafted in the second round of the 2010 WNBA Draft by the San Antonio Silver Stars. In 2018, Clark won a championship with the Storm as they swept the Washington Mystics in the 2018 WNBA Finals. She was also League M.V.P. in 2018 when her team CCC Polkowice of Poland in the Basket Liga Kobiet Basketball won that Leagues Championship. In 2019, she won a Ligue Féminine de Basketball championship with her French team, Lyon Asvel.

Early life

Clark was born in Denver, Colorado to Jan and Duane Clark, who were both musicians. She is the younger sister of American Idol contestant Corey Clark. She is Jewish, and one of her mother's parents is Jewish.
The family later moved to her hometown of Mount Juliet, Tennessee, where she attended Mt. Juliet High School. At Mt. Juliet she was named Midstate Player of the Year by the Tennessean and Class AAA Miss Basketball as a senior. She averaged 24 points and 11.6 rebounds, shooting 67 percent from the floor and 78 percent from the free throw line as a senior.

College career

Before Clark attended Middle Tennessee State University, she played two years at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. At Belmont she helped the Lady Bruins to their first ever NCAA tournament appearance in 2007. After two years she transferred to Middle Tennessee. Clark sat out the 2007–08 season, as required by NCAA rules for transfer students. In 2008-09 she averaged a national best and school-record 27.5 points per game. The following year she averaged 28.3 points per game to lead the nation among Division I schools. At Middle Tennessee she earned Sun Belt Player of the Year in 2009 and 2010.

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Professional career

Alysha is a 3x World Champion with 3 different Professional Basketball Leagues around the world. She was drafted in the second round of the 2010 WNBA Draft by the San Antonio Silver Stars. In 2018, Clark won a championship with the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association as they swept the Washington Mystics in the 2018 WNBA Finals. That same year, she was also League M.V.P. when her team CCC Polkowice of Poland in the Basket Liga Kobiet Basketball won that Leagues Championship. In 2019, she won a Ligue Féminine de Basketball championship with her French team, Lyon Asvel.