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Carissa Clay
- Height:
- 4-11
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- Hometown:
- San Diego, Calif.
- Prev School:
- University of Kentucky
- Club:
- Mission Valley YMCA
Bio
Career Highlights
Member of 2025 Big Ten Championship and NCAA runner-up team
Two-time WCGA Scholastic All-American
Three-time SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll
Best Marks
BB - 9.725, 2/18/22
FX - 9.750 (ex.), 3/9/25
2025
Exhibitioned on balance beam and floor exercise on March 9 vs. Stanford, scoring 9.675 and 9.750, respectively … Made her UCLA debut on Feb. 1 with an exhibition beam that scored 9.675.
2024 (University of Kentucky)
Earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors for the second time in her career … Named to the SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Did not compete.
2023 (University of Kentucky)
Named to the SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Did not compete.
2022 (University of Kentucky)
WCGA Scholastic All-American … Named to the SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Competed on beam three times … Set season and career-high against Florida, scoring 9.725.
2021 (University of Kentucky)
Named to the SEC First-Year Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Did not compete.
Club
Trained at Mission Valley YMCA … All-around runner-up at the 2019 Level 10 State Championships … Fourth on floor, sixth on vault and ninth in the all-around at the 2019 Region 1 Championships … Runner-up on beam and eighth in the all-around at the 2018 Region 1 Championships.
Personal
Full name is Carissa Nailah Clay … Born in San Diego … Parents are Don and Gayle Clay … Has a younger brother, CJ … Favorite apparatus is beam … Lists her first-ever college routine as one of her favorite moments in her career because "I remember being so shocked and thankful that my dreams were coming true" … Has dreamed of being a UCLA graduate since she was eight years old … Hobbies and interests include country music, the beach, the color pink, breakfast food, coffee and watching football, basketball and baseball … Athletes she admires are Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Michael Jordan … Enrolled in the Transformative Coaching and Leadership graduate program at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies … Career objective is to be a coach/ESPN commentator.
Member of 2025 Big Ten Championship and NCAA runner-up team
Two-time WCGA Scholastic All-American
Three-time SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll
Best Marks
BB - 9.725, 2/18/22
FX - 9.750 (ex.), 3/9/25
2025
Exhibitioned on balance beam and floor exercise on March 9 vs. Stanford, scoring 9.675 and 9.750, respectively … Made her UCLA debut on Feb. 1 with an exhibition beam that scored 9.675.
2024 (University of Kentucky)
Earned WCGA Scholastic All-America honors for the second time in her career … Named to the SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Did not compete.
2023 (University of Kentucky)
Named to the SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Did not compete.
2022 (University of Kentucky)
WCGA Scholastic All-American … Named to the SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Competed on beam three times … Set season and career-high against Florida, scoring 9.725.
2021 (University of Kentucky)
Named to the SEC First-Year Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll … Did not compete.
Club
Trained at Mission Valley YMCA … All-around runner-up at the 2019 Level 10 State Championships … Fourth on floor, sixth on vault and ninth in the all-around at the 2019 Region 1 Championships … Runner-up on beam and eighth in the all-around at the 2018 Region 1 Championships.
Personal
Full name is Carissa Nailah Clay … Born in San Diego … Parents are Don and Gayle Clay … Has a younger brother, CJ … Favorite apparatus is beam … Lists her first-ever college routine as one of her favorite moments in her career because "I remember being so shocked and thankful that my dreams were coming true" … Has dreamed of being a UCLA graduate since she was eight years old … Hobbies and interests include country music, the beach, the color pink, breakfast food, coffee and watching football, basketball and baseball … Athletes she admires are Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Michael Jordan … Enrolled in the Transformative Coaching and Leadership graduate program at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies … Career objective is to be a coach/ESPN commentator.
Jordan Chiles - 2025 Big Ten Championships Floor (10.0)
Thursday, September 04
Chae Campbell - 2025 NCAA Championship Floor (9.925)
Friday, August 15
Frida Esparza - 2025 NCAA Semifinal Bars (9.925)
Saturday, August 09
Frida Esparza - 2025 NCAA Semifinals Bars (9.925)
Saturday, August 09
