Coming out of Loyola Marymount (2019-23) and Stony Brook (2023-24), Denver native Khari Clark plans on playing professional basketball for as long as she can, but with her degree in biochemistry, she also has a solid Plan B, or rather Plan A2 (with basketball being Plan A1).
Apart from that, Clark talked with Swish Appeal about her college career, playing in Mexico and the art of rebounding. Highlights from the talk include:
On how she started playing basketball:
Honestly, my dad gave me an ultimatum. He was like, “You’re gonna play sports. Which one do you want to play, volleyball or basketball?” And I was like, “Okay, I guess I’ll play basketball.” And it was that simple. And I was like, “Okay, I’m playing basketball.”
On whether she intends to remain socially active in the places she’s playing in:
I think that I am a student at best, and I can’t really say, globally, I’m very aware of the stuff that’s going on at a level that I would like to be. For instance in Mexico, it was a really great experience because not only did we play basketball, we did a lot of community outreach and we got to meet a lot of different organizations within the community. We were doing community service…
