WBCA Freshman of the Year

The WBCA Freshman of the Year is an annual college basketball award presented by Adidas to the most outstanding freshman player. The award was first given following the 2016–17 season.^[1]

WBCA Freshman of the Year

Awarded for	the most outstanding freshmen female college basketball player
Country	United States
Presented by	Adidas
History
First award	2017
Most recent	Sarah Strong, UConn

Key

†	Co-National Freshman of the Year
*	Awarded a national Player of the Year award as a freshman: the Naismith College Player of the Year or the John R. Wooden Award[a]

Winners

Season	Player	School	Source(s)
2016–17	Destiny Slocum	Maryland	[2]
2017–18	Chennedy Carter	Texas A&M	[3]
2018–19	Rhyne Howard	Kentucky	[4]
2019–20	Aliyah Boston	South Carolina	[5]
2020–21†	Paige Bueckers*	UConn	[6]
	Caitlin Clark	Iowa
2021–22	Aneesah Morrow	DePaul	[7]
2022–23	Ta'Niya Latson	Florida State	[8]
2023–24	JuJu Watkins	USC	[9]
2024–25	Sarah Strong	UConn	[10]

Footnotes

1. Freshmen are ineligible for the other major national award, the Wade Trophy.