Caden Clinton Season 2025-26

Career Honors & Awards 

• Big Ten Parallel Bars Silver Medalist (2026)
• Second-Team All-Big Ten (2026)
• NCAA Team Finals Competitor (2026: Pommel Horse, Parallel Bars)
• NCAA Team Qualifiers Competitor (2026: Pommel Horse, Parallel Bars)
• Big Ten Rookie of the Week (2/17/25)
• CGA Rookie of the Week (2/24/25)
• Individual Title Winner (Pommel Horse: 2/7/26)
  
  Academic Awards 
• Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award (First Team, 2026)
• Academic All-Big Ten (2026)
• Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll (Fall 2024, 2025; Spring 2025) 
• Tom Osborne Citizenship Team (2025, 2026)

Career & Season Highs 

	FX	PH	SR	V	PB	HB	AA
Career Highs	--	14.25	--	--	13.75	13.25	--
2026		14.25			13.75
2025	--	13.65	--	--	13.30	13.25	--

2026 (Sophomore)
He started his sophomore season off at Rocky Mountain Open, where he recorded a 12.65 on pommel horse and a 13.60 on pommel horse. At the meet against Oklahoma, he hit a career-high of 14.25 on pommel horse. During the competition against Michigan, he had his career-high of 13.75 on parallel bars. He competed at the Big Ten Qualifiers and Finals. At the Big Ten Finals, he got second place on parallel bars with a 13.575. He competed at the NCAA Qualifiers and Finals for Nebraska. At the NCAA Finals, he got 14th place on pommel horse with a score of 13.433 and 11th on parallel bars with a score of 13.633. This season, he won one event title, which was on pommel horse in the meet against Penn State. He was also on the 2026 Second Team All-Big Ten. In the classroom, he is a 2026 Academic All-Big Ten Member, 3x Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll Member and a 2x Tom Osborne Citizenship Team Member. He is majoring in Advertising/Public Relations. 

2025 (Freshman)
Caden Clinton, a freshman from Cypress, Texas, competed in one meet this season. Against  Greenville University, Clinton competed in three events. In the pommel horse, he grabbed a 13.65 and the fourth-place position. He also competed on parallel bars and earned another fourth-place score of 13.30. On the high bars, Clinton earned a second-place finish by recording an impressive 13.25. After the Greenville meet, Clinton had an injury that concluded his first year at Nebraska.  

Caden grabbed several accolades in his first season as a Husker, including Big Ten Rookie of the Week in mid-February. He was later voted as the CGA Rookie of the Week for his performance at the Winter Cup in late February. 

In the classroom, Clinton was named to the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll in the fall semester and was a Tom Osborne Citizenship Team member.

Before Nebraska 
Clinton competed with Cypress Academy of Gymnastics under Head Coach Tom Meadows in Cypress, Texas, where his father Grant Clinton also trained. The club is a six-time national champion and has three Olympians including a 2023 U.S. Championship winner and World team bronze medalist Asher Hong.  Clinton was a Six-Time U.S. National Champion (Cypress Academy of Gymnastics), Three-Time U.S. National All-Around Champion, Three-Time National Champion (pommel horse, still rings, parallel bars) and competed at the 2024 Men's Development Program National Championships (First in all-around, pommel horse, high bar; Second in floor, still rings, parallel bars) .

Personal 
Caden is the son of Husker alumni, Lindsey and Grant Clinton and has a younger sister, Brielle.  His father was a Husker gymnast in 1999 and after college, he was a two-time national finalist for American Ninja Warrior. His mother was a student in HuskerVision during her time at Nebraska. Caden plans to major in business.