USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year

The USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year is an annual award issued by USA Basketball that honors the top American female basketball performer during the year's international competition.^[1]

Year	Winner	Status	Reference
1980	Carol Blazejowski	Post college	[2]
1981	Denise Curry	UCLA senior	[3]
1982	Cindy Noble	Post college	[2]
1982	LaTaunya Pollard	Long Beach State junior	[2]
1983	Lynette Woodard	Post college	[2]
1984	Cheryl Miller	USC sophomore	[2]
1985	Jennifer Gillom	Ole Miss junior	[2]
1986	Cheryl Miller (2)	USC senior	[2]
1987	Teresa Edwards	Post college	[2]
1988	Katrina McClain	Post college	[2]
1989	Venus Lacey	LaTech junior	[2]
1990	Teresa Edwards (2)	Post college	[2]
1991	Ruthie Bolton	Post college	[2]
1992	Katrina McClain (2)	Post college	[2]
1993	Lisa Leslie	USC junior	[2]
1994	Dawn Staley	Post college	[2]
1995	Sylvia Crawley	Post college	[2]
1996	Teresa Edwards (3)	Post college	[2]
1997	Chamique Holdsclaw	Tennessee sophomore	[2]
1998	Lisa Leslie (2)	Post college	[2]
1999	Natalie Williams	UCLA sophomore	[2]
2000	Teresa Edwards (4)	Post college	[2]
2001	Ayana Walker	Post college	[2]
2002	Lisa Leslie (3)	Post college	[2]
2003	Seimone Augustus	LSU freshman	[2]
2004	Dawn Staley (2)	Post college	[2]
2005	Crystal Langhorne	Maryland freshman	[4]
2006	Diana Taurasi	Post college	[5]
2007	Candice Wiggins	Stanford junior	[6]
2008	Katie Smith	Post college	[7]
2009	Tina Charles	UConn junior	[8]
2010	Diana Taurasi (2)	Post college	[5]
2011	Breanna Stewart	North Syracuse (HS) junior	[9]
2012	Diana Taurasi (3)	Post college	[5]
2013	Breanna Stewart (2)	UConn freshman	[9]
2014	Maya Moore	Post college	[10]
2015	A'ja Wilson	South Carolina freshman	[2]
2016	Diana Taurasi (4)	Post college	[11]
2017	Janelle Bailey	Providence Day School (HS) senior	[12]
2018	Breanna Stewart (3)	Post college	[13]
2019	Paige Bueckers	Hopkins (HS) senior	[14][15]
2020	No award due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Sue Bird	Post college	[16]
2022	A'ja Wilson (2)	Post college	[17]
2023	Hannah Hidalgo		[18]
2024	A'ja Wilson (3)		[18]

Status	Count
Post college	25
College senior	2
College junior	7
College sophomore	2
College freshman	4
High school senior	2
High school junior	1
	42

See also

• USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year