Kayla Clark took over as head coach of the Lakeland women's golf team in Nov. 2021 after serving as associate head coach. She also is in her second year as an assistant coach with the Lakeland women’s basketball program.
In her first season back at her alma mater, Clark was part of a women’s golf program that won its first-ever Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Championship. Lakeland earned the NACC’s automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Championships, competing in the national tourney for the first time.
Clark came to the Muskies after spending the previous two seasons coaching, including the 2019-20 year at NACC rival Alverno in Milwaukee. She began her collegiate coaching career the year before as an assistant coach at Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, helping the Blue Angels to a school single-season record 10 wins in the 2018-19 season.
Clark was a four-year starter at point guard for the Muskies from 2013-17, where she set the school’s all-time career mark with 340 assists. She scored 777 career points, and as a senior helped lead Lakeland to the NACC Tournament title and a trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament, the Muskies’ first trip to the national tourney in seven years. Her 113 assists that year rank tied for the fifth-most in a season in school history. Clark also ranks third in school history for career three-pointers with 130 made over her four years.
Clark also served in 2017-18 as head junior varsity coach at her alma mater West Bend West High School in West Bend, Wis. She is a native of West Bend and graduated from Lakeland with a degree in exercise science and sport studies.
