Medal record | ||
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Women's flag football | ||
Representing ![]() | ||
World Games | ||
![]() | 2025 Chengdu | Team |
IFAF World Championship | ||
![]() | 2024 Lahti | Team |
IFAF Americas Continental Championship | ||
![]() | 2023 Charlotte | Team |
Ashlea Klam (born October 2004) [1] is an American flag football player. She won the 2024 IFAF Women's Flag Football World Championship with the United States women's national flag football team.
Born to Amber and Jason Klam and raised in Austin, Texas, she started playing flag football at the age of six years-old after seeing her brother Peyton play. She began to play competitively the year after, initially playing on boys teams. [2] [3] She also excelled at a number of sports as a youngster: soccer, volleyball, basketball, baseball, softball, and track and field. [1]
Klam received a scholarship to study sports management and play flag football for Keiser University in Florida. [2]
She plays for the Texas Fury, her club based in Austin, Texas, a club created by her parents as a girls-only flag football club team that has expanded to eight different teams for different age groups. [4] [5]
In 2023, she became the youngest player on the United States women's national flag football team, at the age of 19. [6] She was a member of the American team which won the 2024 IFAF Women's Flag Football World Championship. [7] [1]
Klam has also worked as an actress, appearing in The Long Road Home miniseries, as well as a television show based on the Sage Alexander young adult novel series, and films such as Jack’s Apocalypse. [1]