Clifton was born January 30, 1988. A native of
Van Wert, Ohio, Clifton played college basketball for the
Toledo Rockets women's basketball team from 2006 to 2010. After college, Clifton began her broadcasting career in
Toledo as a sports reporter for
ABC affiliate
WTVG channel 13 before joining the Cavaliers broadcast team in 2012. In 2017, Clifton began co-hosting the podcast Road Trippin' alongside Cavs players
Richard Jefferson and
Channing Frye. Many of the podcast's first shows featured Cavs players and were recorded while the team was on road trips. In summer 2018, Clifton announced she was leaving Fox Sports Ohio and the Cavaliers to take a job hosting the pregame show on Spectrum SportsNet for Los Angeles Lakers telecasts, coinciding with
LeBron James leaving the Cavaliers to sign with the Lakers. On February 14, 2024, Clifton became the first woman to call a Lakers game, which she did on
Spectrum SportsNet with play-by-play announcer
Bill Macdonald. ==Awards and honors==