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Pleasant Grove senior Tabi Clark goes up for a shot during the 5A state championship game against West at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.

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Pleasant Grove's Tabi Clark is introduced prior to the game during semifinal action on Thursday, which saw the Vikings get past Fremont 44-33. February 26, 2026

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Pleasant Grove's Tabi Clark (left) is fouled by Springville's Hattie Templeman in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.

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Pleasant Grove senior Tabi Clark goes up for a shot during the 5A state championship game against West at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.

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Pleasant Grove's Zuri Nordstrom, sitting, is helped to her feet by teammate Tabi Clark after scoring a basket in a 5A girls basketball state quarterfinal game at the Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City on Monday, Feb. 23, 2026.

Darnell Dickson, Daily Herald

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From the moment she took the girls basketball head coaching job at Pleasant Grove last spring, Angela Villa brought a positive, empowering attitude to a program that hadn’t had much success.

No one benefited from or embraced that new attitude more than Tabi Clark.

Clark, a 6-foot-2 senior, led the Vikings in scoring (16.2 points per game) during their magical 26-0 season that ended in the school’s first-ever girls basketball state championship and is the Daily Herald’s Valley Player of the Year.

“Angela brought in a great feeling,” Clark said. “From Day 1 she always said we were going to be a really good team. Our goal was to create a good culture and legacy and it was great to be a part of it. That energy spread throughout the other girls. We were vocal with the goals we wanted to accomplish and it helped us come together as a team.”

Clark started playing Junior Jazz basketball at the age of five. She said she tried out for club ball in junior high and didn’t make the team, then suffered a stress fracture as a freshman at PG. Through those setbacks she made progress and started playing club ball in the summers, exposing her talents to college recruiters and expanding her game against good competition.

“The first three years I was at Pleasant Grove, we didn’t win a lot of games,” she said. “It was hard for me but I made great connections with teammates and I still have those.”

Villa, who was an assistant coach at Provo last season, said she was well aware of Clark when she took the job with the Vikings.

“I knew all about Tabi,” she said. “At Provo we played PG in the spring league. She’s definitely a thousand times better than when we faced her then. She’s talented and long and she can shoot the ball. At the time I didn’t realize what a great kid and what a great human being she is. She’s a coach’s dream.”

Clark took a key role this season in helping Villa and her new teammates — Sutton Villa from Provo, Zuri Nordstrom and Siri Burgess from Lone Peak and Janiece and Aaliyah Sikander from Westlake — adjust to a new system and new coaches.

“Tabi is so good with people and she was really ready to help mold this group,” Coach Villa said. “She was a real glue piece for that and it came naturally to her. She helped introduce me to things in the program that others had done, things we could keep or things we could get rid of. We wanted to make sure the seniors felt special and not uprooted.”

The Vikings opened the season with impressive wins against American Fork (79-53) and eventual 6A champion Bingham (65-45) and were off and running.

Pleasant Grove was the No. 1 seed heading into the 5A tournament and beat Bonneville (73-29), Springville (55-41), Fremont (44-33) and West (45-30) to win the school’s first girls basketball gold trophy.

“It’s hard to beat that championship game feeling of ‘Wow, this is it,'” Clark said. “We knew that was our goal and to experience that, it almost didn’t seem real. We started off not playing well (in the title game) and Angela and the coaching staff told us to calm down and that there was no need to panic. To take a breath and enjoy it. The greatest moment was when Zuri hit that 3-pointer (late in the game). Everyone was going crazy and we could not stop smiling. Looking back, it’s crazy that that was my last high school game.”

Aside from her 16.2 points per game scoring average, Clark also averaged 5.7 rebounds, 2.2 assists and one steal per game while shooting 46% (61 of 132) from the 3-point line and 78% (40 of 51) from the foul line.

Clark has signed with Dan Nielson and the Utah Valley women’s basketball program. She’ll join the Wolverines mid-June to prepare for the 2026-27 season.

“We’re excited that she’s playing locally so we can continue to watch her,” Coach Villa said. “I just know there’s so much more to come for her. She’s such a dynamic athlete and a wonderful kid.”

Tabi Clark File

• 6-foot-2 guard/forward
• Averaged 16.2 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.2 assists per game
• Shot 46% (61 of 132) from the 3-point line
• Led Pleasant Grove to 26-0 record and first girls basketball state title
• Won the state title on the same day as her cousin, Bingham’s Evy Roberts
• Has signed to play college basketball at Utah Valley University