Awarded for | The yearly outstanding women's college basketball Academic All-America team member |
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Country | United States & Canada |
Presented by | College Sports Communicators |
History | |
Most recent | Caitlin Clark, Iowa Samantha Pirosko, Gannon Natalie Bruns, NYU Grace Beyer, UHSP |
Next award announcement | April 2025 |
Website | academicallamerica.com |
The Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is the annual most outstanding singular female college basketball athlete of the set of basketball athletes selected for the Academic All-America Teams in a given year. This is a list of the annual selection by College Sports Communicators (known before 2022–23 as the College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA) and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the annual Women's Basketball Academic All-America selections. From 1996 through 2011, one winner each was chosen from both the College and University Divisions for all twelve Academic All-America teams, including football. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. The University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.
Beginning in 2012, CoSIDA revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I". Since then, NCAA Divisions II and III have had their own separate All-Americans. The College Division consisted only of non-NCAA institutions through the 2017–18 school year, after which it was effectively replaced by an NAIA division restricted to members of that governing body. [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. [2] The districts are as follows: – District 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT), District 2 (DC, DE, KY, MD, NJ, PA, WV), District 3 (NC, TN, VA), District 4 (AL, FL, GA, PR, SC), District 5 (IL, IN, MI, OH), District 6 (AR, IA, LA, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, SD, WI, WY), – District 7 (CO, ID, KS, NE, NM, NV, OK, TX), District 8 (AK, AZ, CA, HI, OR, UT, WA, Canada). [3] First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball and men's and women's at-large teams) have one Academic All-American of the Year for each division. One of these twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-American of the year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Members of the Year for each division. [4] The most recent women's basketball player to have earned the all-sports honor is 2023 Division I recipient Caitlin Clark of Iowa. [5]
As of January 31,2024 [update] , Stanford University has had the most women's basketball Academic All-America honorees (17 and one more than Ashland University), [6] but only Chiney Ogwumike has been recognized with this award. [7]
Several of the Women's Basketball Academic All-America of the Year winners have gone on to win the overall Academic All-America of the Year. [8]
Several have been repeat winners of this award. [7] 2024 NAIA winner, Grace Beyer, was the first women's basketball three-time winner. [9]
Names in bold indicate winners of the all-sports Academic All-America award. All winners are American unless indicated otherwise.
Year | Winner | School |
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1988 | Michelle Flamoe [10] | Oregon State |
1989 | ||
1990 | Stephanie Kasperski [10] | Oregon |
1991 | Jan Jensen [11] | Drake |
1992 | Karen Jennings [10] | Nebraska |
1993 | ||
1994 | Kristen Maskala [12] | Marquette |
1995 | Rebecca Lobo [10] | UConn |
1996 | Jennifer Rizzotti [10] | |
1997 | Jennifer Howard [10] | NC State |
1998 | Lisa Davies [13] | Missouri State |
1999 | Stephanie White-McCarty [10] | Purdue |
2000 | Lisa Baswell [10] | Jacksonville State |
2001 | Ruth Riley [10] | Notre Dame |
2002 | Stacey Dales-Schuman [10] | Oklahoma |
2003 | Kristine Austgulen [14] | VCU |
2004 | Kelly Mazzante [15] | Penn State |
2005 | Kate Endress [16] | Ball State |
2006 | Lindsay Shearer [17] | Kent State |
2007 | Chrissy Givens [18] | Middle Tennessee |
2008 | Candace Parker [19] | Tennessee |
2009 | Amber Guffey [20] | Murray State |
2010 | Maya Moore [21] [22] | UConn |
2011 | Maya Moore [23] |
Year | Winner | School |
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1988 | Lisa Walters [10] | Minnesota State |
1989 | Mary Kate Long [10] | UT Martin |
1990 | Laura Van Sickle [10] | Grinnell |
1991 | Melissa Sharer [10] | |
1992 | Barb Blume-Love [10] | Millikin |
1993 | Angela Harbor [10] | Catawba |
1994 | Emilie Hanson [10] | Central College |
1995 | ||
1996 | Jenny Pracht [10] | Pittsburg State |
1997 | Julie Roe [10] | Millikin |
1998 | Krista Kandere [10] | Saint Rose |
1999 | Jen Swinehart [10] | Baldwin Wallace |
2000 | Alia Fischer [10] | WashU |
2001 | Emily Bloss [10] | Emporia State |
2002 | Katie Gariss [10] | Missouri Southern |
2003 | Megan Woodruff [14] | Wilmington |
2004 | Mandy Koupal [15] | South Dakota |
2005 | Lindsey Dietz [16] [17] | Minnesota Duluth |
2006 | ||
2007 | Ashley Marble [18] | Southern Maine |
2008 | Lindsay Ippel [19] | Millikin |
2009 | Emily Brister [20] | West Texas A&M |
2010 | Julia Hirssig [21] [22] | Wisconsin–Stout |
2011 | Tori Hansen [23] | West Liberty |
Year | Div. I Winner | School |
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2012 | Elena Delle Donne [24] [25] | Delaware |
2013 | ||
2014 | Chiney Ogwumike [26] | Stanford |
2015 | Ashley Luke [27] | Western Illinois |
2016 | Ally Disterhoft [28] [29] | Iowa |
2017 | ||
2018 | Cherise Beynon [30] [31] | New Mexico |
2019 | Mikayla Ferenz [32] | Idaho |
2020 | Brittany Brewer [33] | Texas Tech |
2021 | Aliyah Boston [34] | South Carolina |
2022 | Aliyah Boston [35] | |
2023 | Caitlin Clark [36] | Iowa |
2024 | Caitlin Clark [9] |
Year | Div. II Winner | School |
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2012 | Michelle McDonald [37] | Winona State |
2013 | Kari Daugherty [38] [39] | Ashland |
2014 | Lauren Battista [40] | Bentley |
2015 | Suzanna Ohlsen [41] | Seattle Pacific |
2016 | Shelby Winkelmann [42] | Central Missouri |
2017 | Cassidy Mihalko [43] | California Baptist |
2018 | Miranda Ristau [44] [45] | Northern State |
2019 | Jessica Kelliher [46] | Lewis |
2020 | Cassidy Boensch [47] | Grand Valley State |
2021 | Sierra Kotchman [48] | Fairmont State |
2022 | Audrey Tingle [35] | West Liberty |
2023 | Brooke Olson [36] | Minnesota-Duluth |
2024 | Samantha Pirosko [9] | Gannon |
Year | Div. III Winner | School |
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2012 | Carol Cayo [49] | Milwaukee School of Engineering |
2013 | Carissa Verkaik [50] | Calvin |
2014 | Stephanie Kuzmanic [51] | Carthage |
2015 | Heather Johns [52] | Whitman |
2016 | Jess Rheinheimer [53] | Eastern Mennonite |
2017 | Lisa Murphy [54] | Carnegie Mellon |
2018 | Samm Chandler [55] | Averett |
2019 | Hannah Neild [56] | Gallaudet |
2020 | Sydney Kopp [57] | DePauw |
2021 | Jenna Taylor [58] [35] | Simpson College |
2022 | ||
2023 | Lexie Dellinger [36] | Anderson |
2024 | Natalie Bruns [9] | New York University |
Year | College Division / NAIA Winner(s) [lower-alpha 2] | School |
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2012 | Jennifer Jorgensen [59] | Grand View |
2013 | Hollie German [60] | Lee |
2014 | Samantha Kleinsasser [61] | Northwestern |
2015 | Morgan Stuut [62] | Saint Xavier |
2016 | Lydia Nash [63] | Union College |
2017 | Cassidy Deno [64] | Purdue Northwest |
2018 | Amber Alexander [65] [66] | Vanguard |
2019 | Kendall Knapke [67] | Indiana Tech |
2020 | Grace Barry [68] | Concordia |
2021 | Kylah Comley [69] | Sterling |
2022 | Grace Beyer [35] [36] [9] | UHSP |
2023 | ||
2024 |
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