Three-time WNBA champion Alysha Clark, who said she fell in love with basketball in Nashville as a teenager, will have a chance to play professionally in the city as part of Athletes Unlimited’s upcoming season.
Clark was one of the players announced Tuesday as part of the five-on-five women’s league, which will be based in Nashville in 2025. The league had previously played in Las Vegas (2022) and Dallas (2023, 2024).
Clark moved to the Nashville area with her family as a teen, and she led NCAA Division I women’s hoops in scoring in 2008 and 2009 while playing for Middle Tennessee.
“I was fascinated by the history, by the support,” Clark told ESPN about the atmosphere for women’s basketball in Tennessee. “So just to be able to kind of come back full circle … it’s really special on so many levels. The starting point of my basketball journey was there.”
Clark, 37, won WNBA titles with the Seattle Storm in 2018 and 2020 and the Las Vegas Aces in 2023, when she was the league’s Sixth Woman of the Year. She will be an unrestricted…
