Caroline Clark

Caroline Archer "KK" Clark (born June 28, 1990) was an American female swimmer and water polo player who competed for the University of California Los Angeles and participated with the U.S. Women's Water Polo team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, where she won a team gold medal.

High School Water Polo In her Senior High School year at Sacred Heart, Caroline earned first-team All-America honors and was twice honored on the first team as an All-CIF Central Coast inductee. In her Senior year at Sacred Heart, her team was ranked first in California's Central College Section, and had won three straight WCAL titles. That year, Sacred Heart won the St. Francis Tournament Championship, and the North Coast Section Championship. Scoring two goals, Clark helped lead Sacred Heart to the 2007 CIF Central Coast Section Division II Championship for the first time in the school's history, defeating St. Francis 6-1. When not engaged in seasonal play that year, Clark had visited Australia as part of the U.S. Youth National Water Polo Team, where she both competed and learned elite level skills. She had earned honors as an All American in swimming as part of the National Interscholastic Coaches Swimming Association.(NICSA). In addition to High School competition, she competed for the Norcal Water Polo Club. In addition to her All American honors in Water Polo, she earned All America honors as a swimming, competing with Sacred Heart's 200 and 400-meter freestyle relay teams.

Competing with the Women's USA National Water Polo team, she was coached by Adam Krikorian.

International competition highlights In 2011, she captured a silver medal at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China. In 2013, she competed with the American team at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Spain earning a bronze medal. In 2015, she won a gold medal at the 2015 Summer Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, and a gold medal at the 2014 FINA World Cup. where she won a team gold medal. The USA Women's Water Polo Team had been the 2012 Olympic champion, and again won the 2016 Rio Olympics with a decisive 12-5 victory against the women's team from Italy, who took the silver medal. Showing consistency and dominance in the Olympic sport of Water Polo, the U.S. Women became the first Water Polo team to earn medals in all of the five Olympic women’s water polo tournaments. Italy, the 2004 Athens Olympic champion, took the silver medal, and Russia took the bronze medal in a long game against Hungary, where they won by a score of 7-6.