Biography
Dancy's Cal Career Game Highs
Rushes: 17 (at Oregon State, 2020)
Rushing Yards: 92 (at Stanford, 2021)
Rushing TDs: 2 (twice, last at Stanford, 2021)
Long Rush: 76TD (at Stanford, 2021)
Receptions: 5 (at UCLA, 2021)
Receiving Yards: 41 (vs. Arizona State, 2019)
Long Reception: 28 (twice, last at UCLA, 2019)
Kick Returns: 1 (twice, last vs. USC, 2019)
Kick Return Yards: 18 (twice, last vs. USC, 2019)
Long Kick Return: 18 (twice, last vs. USC, 2019)
Pass Attempts: 1 (at Stanford, 2021)
Passing Percentage: 0.0%, 0-1 (at Stanford, 2021)
Total Offense Yards: 92 (at Stanford, 2021)
All-Purpose Yards: 105 (twice, last at Stanford, 2021)
Total Touchdowns: 2 (twice, last at Stanford, 2021)
Points: 12 (twice, last at Stanford, 2021)
Tackles: 1 (at Ole Miss, 2019)
Cal Career (2018-21)
• Played in 32 games with three starts in four seasons at Cal after his arrival in the fall of 2018 and totaled 646 yards rushing and five touchdowns on the ground on 128 carries, while adding 46 receptions for 334 yards and two kick returns for 36 yards to total 1016 all-purpose yards
• Threw an incompletion in his lone career pass attempts at Stanford as a 2021 senior
• Played in a career-high-tying 12 games as both a 2019 junior and 2021 senior
• Posted career highs in rushes (57), yards rushing (248), receptions (20), yards receiving (153), all-purpose yards (419) and tackles (1) as a 2019 junior, while equaling career highs in rushing touchdowns (2), total touchdowns (2), as well as kick returns and kick return yards by matching the two rushing and total touchdowns he later posted in his 2021 senior campaign, as well as the one kick return for 18 yards he had in his first junior season in 2018
• Had four games of more than 70 yards rushing with one in each of his four campaigns against Idaho State as a 2018 junior (80 yards), at Washington as a 2019 junior (72 yards), at Oregon State as a 2020 senior (76 yards) and at Stanford as a 2021 senior (career-high 92 yards)
• Changed his uniform to the No. 23 he finished his career in prior to 2019 spring football after wearing No. 29 during his first season at Cal in 2018
Senior (2021)
• Earned Cal's Ted Agu Award for being the most consistently involved in community service for the second consecutive season
• Played in all 12 games off the bench and registered 26 rushes for 161 yards as well as 15 receptions for 98 yards
• Thew an incomplete pass on his lone career attempt at Stanford
• Nevada - 1 rush, 8 yards, 8 long; 4 receptions, 21 yards, 9 long ... career-high-tying receptions
• at TCU - 1 reception, 4 yards, 4 long
• Sacramento State - 4 rushes, 6 yards, 3 long; 2 receptions, 18 yards, 12 long
• at Washington - 1 reception, 2 yards, 2 long
• Washington State - 2 rushes, 3 yards, 2 long
• at Oregon - 1 rush, 10 yards
• Colorado - 5 rushes, -2 yards, 3 long
• Oregon State - 1 rush, -2 yards, -2 long; 1 reception, 12 yards, 12 long
• at Arizona - participated
• at Stanford - 4 rushes, 92 yards, 2 TD, 76 long; 1 reception, 13 yards, 8 long; 0-1-0 passing, 0 yards ... career-long 76-yard touchdown run was longest by a Cal player since Brendan Bigelow's 81-yard touchdown run at Ohio State in 2012 and eight yards shy of Jim Monachino's Cal Big Game record 84-yard touchdown run in 1949 ... career-high-tying 105 all-purpose yards ... first career passing attempt
• at UCLA - 2 rushes, 10 yards, 14 long; 5 receptions, 28 yards, 14 long ... career-high receptions
• USC - 6 rushes, 36 yards, 14 long; 5 receptions
Senior (2020)
• Cal's nominee for the Burlsworth Trophy awarded annually to the nation's top Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) player who began his collegiate career as a walk-on
• Played in all four games with two starts and posted 31 carries for 156 yards while adding nine receptions for 68 yards to total 224 all-purpose yards
• Rushed a career-high 17 times for 76 yards (both team highs) including a 23-yarder on the game's first play from scrimmage while adding three receptions for 29 yards for a career-high-tying 105 all-purpose yards at Oregon State
• Had 42 yards rushing on seven carries, as well as three receptions for 24 yards to total 66 all-purpose yards against Stanford
• Rushed five times for a team-high 34 yards while adding one reception for three yards to total 37 all-purpose yards against Oregon
• Registered 16 all-purpose yards in the season-opener at UCLA, rushing twice for four yards while catching a pair of passes for 12 yards
Junior (2019)
• Selected to the prestigious Allstate AFCA Good Works Team® for his volunteer work with the Oakland Dynamites Youth Football and Cheer squad and represented Cal during the Good Works Team's appearance at the All-State Sugar Bowl as a 2019 junior
• One of two Cal players to win a team-high-tying two awards as the recipient of a Stub Allison Award for his commitment to strength and conditioning and the Ted Agu Award for being the most consistently involved in community service with the Agu honor being the first of two times he would win it by adding the award as a 2021 senior
• Played in 12 of 13 games including his first career start at Ole Miss
• Posted career highs in rushes (57), rushing yards (248), receptions (20), yards receiving (153), all-purpose yards (419) and tackles (1), while equaling career highs in rushing touchdowns (2), total touchdowns (2), points (12), kick returns (1) and kick return yards (18)
• Recorded 217 of his 248 rushing yards in the first five games
• Had seven rushes for 72 yards all in the second half including a career-high-tying two touchdown runs of 20 and eight yards both in the third quarter of a win at then No. 14 Washington and was named Cal's Co-Offensive Player of the Week
• Made his first career start at Ole Miss and had a team-high-tying 12 carries for a team-high 47 yards and three receptions for 16 yards, while also making his lone career tackle
• Totaled 79 all-purpose yards against Arizona State, rushing nine times for 38 yards while adding four receptions for a career-high 41 yards receiving including a career-long-tying 28-yard catch
• Rushed five times for 32 yards off the bench while adding a single reception for eight yards in the season-opener against UC Davis
• Served as a team captain against North Texas and contributed 11 rushes for 28 yards and three receptions for 22 yards
• Had two rushes for 12 yards at Utah while adding one reception for five yards
• Had two rushes for 11 yards in the Redbox Bowl against Illinois while adding one reception for three yards
• Had one rush for four yards at UCLA, while adding one reception for a career-long-tying 28 yards
• Had one rush for three yards and one reception for zero yards against Washington State
• Had one yard rushing on seven carries against Oregon State while adding two receptions for 11 yards
• Did not have a rushing attempt against USC or at Stanford but did catch three balls for 19 yards and equal a career best and a career long by returning one kick for 18 yards against the Trojans
• Did not play at Oregon due to injury
• Finished with eight rushes for 33 yards as well as three catches for 29 yards and was the only player in the spring game to score a pair of touchdowns with a 16-yard reception from Devon Modster for the first touchdown of the contest and a three-yard run for the last of the five times the offense reached the end zone
Junior (2018)
• Played in four games all off the bench but redshirted and did not use a season of eligibility
• Contributed 81 yards rushing and one touchdown on 14 carries while adding two receptions for 15 yards and a career-high-tying one kick return and 18 kick return yards (also career long) for a total of 114 all-purpose yards
• Posted 80 yards rushing vs. Idaho State on a team-high 11 carries with his lone touchdown of the season while adding one reception for 14 yards
• Saw the first action of his Cal career off the bench at BYU and rushed twice for five yards
• Had one rush for a loss of four yards against UCLA while adding one reception for one yard and the first kick return of his career for a career-high-tying 18 yards
• Also played at Oregon State but did not record any statistics other than participation
Laney College (2016-17)
• Played in all 22 games possible including 11 each as a 2016 freshman and 2017 sophomore for a squad that combined for an 18-4 record during his two campaigns and was 9-1 in National – Valley League games
• Team reached a pair of bowls and won the San Francisco Bowl in his freshman season
• Combined for 1994 yards rushing and 16 touchdowns in his two campaigns on 313 rushes while adding 27 receptions for 302 yards and three scores, three kick returns for 67 yards and four punt returns for a loss of four yards to total 2359 all-purpose yards
• Racked up the honors in his sophomore campaign when he earned All-State, All-Region and All-National - Valley League honors while he was also an Academic All-American
• Was his school's Back of the Year during both his freshman and sophomore seasons
• Played in a career-high-tying all 11 games and put up career-high numbers as a sophomore when he rushed a team-high 151 times for 1033 yards and scored 12 touchdowns on the ground as one of two 1,000-yard rushers for a team that finished 9-2 overall and won the National - Valley League title with a record of 5-0 in league games and reached the Northern California semifinals of the CCCAA Football Championships before falling to American River
• Also had 22 catches for 241 yards and three scores as a sophomore
• Totaled 1326 all-purpose yards in his sophomore campaign, adding two kick returns for 56 yards and four punt returns for a loss of four yards
• Ranked second on the team as a sophomore in rushing, receiving, all-purpose yards, scoring (90 points), rushing touchdowns and receiving touchdowns (tied for second), while he was among the top 25 in the state of California in yards per rush (7th, 6.8), rushing yards (13th), rushing yards per game (15th, 93.9), rushing touchdowns (15th) and rushes (23rd)
• Rushed for 71 or more yards in 10 of his 11 games as a sophomore including three 100-yard rushing contests at Chabot (16 rushes, season-high 142 yards), as well as vs. Contra Costa (season-high 21 rushes, 136 yards) and De Anza (10 rushes, 131 yards)
• Scored at least one rushing touchdown in each of his last nine contests as a sophomore including a career-high-tying two at Feather River, vs. De Anza and at Chabot to help his squad to victories in each of the first eight contests
• Had a career-high of 243 all-purpose yards as a sophomore on 149 yards receiving and a career-high-tying one touchdown reception on three catches as well 11 rushes for 94 yards vs. Modesto as a sophomore, while his six receptions (16 yards) in the semifinals of the CCCAA Football Championships against American River were a career-high and his single touchdown reception tied a career-high
• Also registered a touchdown catch at Fresno City as a sophomore
• Had a career-long 84-yard touchdown reception vs. Modesto as a sophomore, while the 69-yard touchdown run he broke at San Francisco in the final game of his freshman campaign was the longest run of his career
• Recorded a career-long 30-yard kick return vs. Contra Costa as a sophomore, while his eight-yard punt return at San Francisco was the longest of his career
• Led his squad with 162 rushes and 961 yards rushing as a freshman while he had four touchdowns on the ground
• Added five receptions for 61 yards and one kick return for 11 yards to total 1023 all-purpose yards in his freshman campaign
• Registered single-game career-highs of 23 rushes and 159 yards rushing with one scoring touchdown as a freshman against De Anza as one of his 100-yard games also reaching the total vs. San Francisco (22 rushes, 129 yards), at San Francisco (19 rushes, 117 yards) and vs. San Joaquin Delta (9 rushes, 107 yards, 1 TD) while his two rushing scores against Feather River tied a career high
• Wore No. 23
West High School (Class Of 2016)
• Earned Tri-City Athletic League Offensive Player of the Year honors as a 2015 senior while also picking up All-State honors as a running back as well as first-team All-San Joaquin Section recognition both at running back and safety for a team that reached the first round of the Sac Joaquin section playoffs
• Rushed 291 times for 1914 yards and 25 touchdowns as a senior while adding 24 receptions for 386 yards and three touchdowns, 17 kick returns for 461 yards and one touchdown, nine punt returns for 130 yards and five interceptions that he returned for 175 yards and one touchdown to amass 3066 all-purpose yards and 30 touchdowns while adding eight points on four successful two-point conversions
• Also had 94 tackles, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery on defense as a senior
• Wore No. 23 in football
• Also played baseball
Other
• Born August 10, 1998
• Son of Jennifer Clemens
• An assistant coach for the Oakland Dynamites Pop Warner Football Association and also was a coach for Next Level Flag Football while at Laney College
• Graduated from Cal in December of 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in American studies before earning graduate certificates in entrepreneurship in May of 2021 and business administration in December of 2021
Last Updated
March 1, 2022
