List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year explained

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Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year
Description:The yearly outstanding women's college basketball Academic All-America team member
Presenter:College Sports Communicators
Country:United States & Canada
Holder:Caitlin Clark, Iowa
Samantha Pirosko, Gannon
Natalie Bruns, NYU
Grace Beyer, UHSP
Nextaward:April 2025
Website:academicallamerica.com

The annually-awarded Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is the most outstanding singular female college basketball athlete selected for the Academic All-America Teams in a given year. Selected based on excellence in both classroom achievement and athletic competition performance by the College Sports Communicators (CSC, known before the 2022–23 school year as College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA), the Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. 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]

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 players to have earned the all-sports honor did so in 2024—Caitlin Clark of Iowa in Division I, Samantha Pirosko of Gannon in Division II, and Grace Beyer of UHSP in the NAIA.[5]

History

, 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]

, 11 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. The six Division I overall winners have been Rebecca Lobo (1995 before there were separate awards by level), Ruth Riley (2001), Stacey Dales-Schuman (2002), Maya Moore (2011), Aliyah Boston (2022) and Caitlin Clark (2023). Other overall winners have included Kari Daugherty (Division II, 2013), Lauren Battista (Division II, 2014), and Grace Barry (NAIA, 2020) as well as Julie Roe (1997) and Emily Bloss (2001) before the College Division was split.[8]

, the have been a total 11 repeat winners of this award, including 7 times in Division I: Michelle Flamoe (1988 & 1989), Karen Jennings (1992 & 1993), Moore (2010 & 2011), Elena Delle Donne (2012 & 2013), Ally Disterhoft (2016 & 2017), Boston (2021 & 2022), Clark (2023 & 2024). In the college division Emilie Hanson (1994 & 1995) and Lindsey Dietz (2005 & 2006) repeated as did Jenna Taylor (Division III, 2021 & 2022).[7] 2024 NAIA winner, Grace Beyer, was the first women's basketball three-time winner.

Tables of winners

Names in bold indicate winners of the all-sports Academic All-America award. All winners are American unless indicated otherwise.

Two-division era (1988–2011)

Year! scope="col"
University Division WinnerSchoolCollege Division WinnerSchool
1988style=Oregon Statestyle=
1989 (2) style=Oregon Statestyle=UT Martin
1990style=Oregonstyle=
1991[9] style=Drakestyle=
1992style=Nebraskastyle=
1993 (2)style=style=
1994[10] style=Marquettestyle=
1995style=UConn (2)style=
1996style=UConnstyle=
1997style=NC State style=
1998[11] style=Missouri Statestyle=
1999style=Purduestyle=
2000style=Jacksonville Statestyle=
2001style=Notre Damestyle=Emporia State
2002 style=Oklahoma[12] style=
2003[13] style=VCUstyle=
2004[14] style=Penn Statestyle=South Dakota
2005 [15] style=Ball Statestyle=
2006[16] style=Kent State (2)style=
2007[17] style=Middle Tennesseestyle=
2008 [18] style=Tennesseestyle=
2009[19] style=Murray Statestyle=
2010[20] [21] style=UConnstyle=
2011 (2)[22] style=UConnstyle=

Four-division era (2012–present)

Year! align="center" style="background-color:#f0f0f0;"! scope="col"
Div. I WinnerSchoolDiv. II WinnerSchoolDiv. III WinnerSchoolCollege/NAIA WinnerSchool
2012[23] style=Delaware[24] style=[25] style=Jennifer Jorgensen[26] style=
2013 (2)[27] style=Delaware[28] [29] style=[30] style=Hollie German[31] style=
2014[32] style=Stanford[33] style=[34] style=[35] style=
2015[36] style=Western Illinois[37] style=[38] style=[39] style=
2016[40] style=Iowa[41] style=[42] style=[43] style=
2017 (2)[44] style=Iowa[45] style=California Baptist[46] style=[47] style=
2018[48] [49] style=New Mexico[50] [51] style=[52] style=[53] [54] style=
2019[55] style=[56] style=[57] style=[58] style=
2020[59] style=Texas Tech[60] style=[61] style=[62] style=
2021 [63] style=South Carolina[64] style=[65] style=[66] style=
2022 (2)[67] style=South Carolinastyle= (2)style=style=
2023[68] style=Iowastyle=style= (2) style=
2024 (2)[69] style=Iowastyle=Gannonstyle=NYU (3)style=

External links

Notes and References

  1. New Google Cloud Academic All-America® Division for the NAIA Being Added For 2018-19 Academic Year . College Sports Information Directors of America . May 22, 2018 . March 12, 2019.
  2. Web site: Capital One Academic All-District ® Men's Basketball Teams Released. March 22, 2011. February 3, 2011. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  3. Web site: CoSIDA Academic All-District® Women's Basketball Team Released. March 11, 2024. February 17, 2022. CoSIDA.
  4. Web site: Academic All-America program Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). March 22, 2011. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  5. 2023-24 Top 4 chosen for Overall Academic All-America® of the Year honors in NCAA and NAIA divisions . College Sports Communicators . en . August 13, 2024 . August 13, 2024.
  6. Web site: Academic All-America®, selected by College Sports Communicators. March 19, 2024. January 31, 2024. College Sports Communicators.
  7. Web site: Women's Basketball Academic All-America® of the Year. March 19, 2024. 2023. College Sports Communicators.
  8. Web site: All-Time Academic All-America® Overall Team Member of the Year presented by College Sports Communicators. March 18, 2023. 2023. College Sports Communicators.
  9. Web site: The Best Of The Lot. May 5, 2011. March 18, 1991. Sports Illustrated.
  10. Web site: Department of Intercollegiate Athletics Award Recipients: Young Alumna of the Year Award . July 15, 2012. Marquette University.
  11. Web site: Blodgett garners academic award. March 2, 2012. March 20, 1998. Bangor Daily News.
  12. Web site: Women's Basketball. March 9, 2024. College Sports Communicators.
  13. Web site: Tennessee's Kara Lawson Name To The 2002-2003 Verizon Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Team. March 23, 2011. December 2, 2002. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  14. Web site: Penn State's Kelly Mazzante Named Academic All-America® Of the Year For Women's Basketball. March 23, 2011. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  15. Web site: Ball State's Endress, Minnesota-Duluth's Dietz Head 2004-2005 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams. March 23, 2011. March 3, 2005. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  16. Web site: Kent State's Shearer, Minnesota-Duluth's Dietz Head 2005-06 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams. March 23, 2011. February 28, 2006. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  17. Web site: 2006-07 Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Team. March 23, 2011. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  18. Web site: Candace Parker of Tennessee and Lindsay Ippel of Millikin Lead 2008 ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Team. March 23, 2011. February 26, 2008. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  19. Web site: Murray State's Amber Guffey and Emily Brister of West Texas A&M Headline ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams. March 23, 2011. February 23, 2009. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  20. Web site: 2009-2010 ESPN The Magazine Sport-By-Sport Academic All-Americans Of The Year. March 23, 2011. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  21. Web site: UConn's Maya Moore, Julia Hirssig of Wisconsin-Stout top ESPN the Magazine's Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams. May 7, 2024. February 23, 2010. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  22. Web site: Maya Moore of UConn and Tori Hansen of West Liberty headline Capital One Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams. May 7, 2024. February 24, 2011. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  23. Tyler Zeller of UNC, Elena Delle Donne headline Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams. February 23, 2012. February 23, 2012. College Sports Information Directors of America. https://web.archive.org/web/20120713070920/http://cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3569. July 13, 2012. dead.
  24. Nick Trull of Anderson, Michelle McDonald of Winona State lead Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Team . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 22, 2012 . May 7, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20120713065044/http://cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3567. July 13, 2012. dead.
  25. Aris Wurtz of Ripon, Carol Cayo of Milwaukee School of Engineering lead Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 21, 2012 . May 7, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20120713052357/http://cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3565. July 13, 2012. dead.
  26. Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams announced; Casey Coons (Taylor University) and Jennifer Jorgensen (Grand View) named Academic All-America Team Members of the Year . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 20, 2012 . May 7, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20120713065349/http://cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3562. July 13, 2012. dead.
  27. Delaware's Elena Delle Donne, Ohio State's Aaron Craft top Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams. February 21, 2013. February 21, 2013. College Sports Information Directors of America. https://archive.today/20130408011013/http://www.cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3973. April 8, 2013. dead.
  28. Kari Daugherty of Ashland named 2012-13 Capital One Division II Academic All-America® of the Year . College Sports Information Directors of America . August 7, 2013 . August 23, 2013.
  29. Kari Daugherty of Ashland, Marcus Ruh of Saint Leo headline Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams. . February 20, 2013 . May 7, 2024. https://archive.today/20130407235521/http://www.cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3972. April 7, 2013. dead.
  30. Colton Hunt of Randolph College and Carissa Verkaik of Calvin College top Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams . . February 19, 2013 . May 7, 2024. https://archive.today/20130408003030/http://cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3971. April 8, 2013. dead.
  31. Brad Karp of Saint Xavier and Lee University's Hollie German lead Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams. . February 18, 2013 . May 7, 2024. https://archive.today/20130408000303/http://www.cosida.com/news.aspx?id=3970. April 8, 2013. dead.
  32. Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams Announced: Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike and Ohio State Aaron Craft lead the team and are the Capital One Academic All-Americas of the Year for Division I women's and men's basketball, respectively.. February 21, 2014. February 20, 2014. College Sports Information Directors of America.
  33. Meet the Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams: Lauren Battista of No. 1-ranked Bentley and Missouri S&T's Bryce Foster lead the scholar-athlete teams.. . February 19, 2014 . February 21, 2014.
  34. Capital One Academic All-America® D3 Basketball Teams Announced: Senior Richie Bonney (Hobart) and Stephanie Kuzmanic (Carthage) headline the 2013-14 Division III basketball teams.. . February 18, 2014 . February 21, 2014.
  35. Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams Announced: Brad Karp (Saint Xavier), Samantha Kleinsasser (Northwestern- Iowa) claim Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year basketball honors for the college division. Karp has now earned top CD men's basketball honors for the second consecutive year.. . February 17, 2014 . February 21, 2014.
  36. Ashley Luke (Western Illinois) and Yale's Matt Townsend lead Capital One Academic All-America Div. 1 Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 26, 2015 . March 4, 2015.
  37. Suzanna Ohlsen of Seattle Pacific, Trey Casey of Christian Brothers Spotlight Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 25, 2015 . March 4, 2015.
  38. Clarkson's John Coleman and Whitman's Heather Johns Headline Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 24, 2015 . March 4, 2015.
  39. Morgan Stuut (Saint Xavier) & Matt Schauss (Bethel) Lead Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 23, 2015 . March 4, 2015.
  40. Web site: Academic All-America® Basketball Teams - Division I . March 6, 2016 . March 3, 2016 . College Sports Information Directors of America.
  41. Web site: Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams Announced. March 2, 2016 . May 7, 2024 . College Sports Information Directors of America.
  42. Web site: Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams Selected . March 1, 2016 . March 6, 2016 . College Sports Information Directors of America.
  43. Web site: Academic All-America® Basketball Teams - College Division . February 28, 2016 . March 6, 2016 . College Sports Information Directors of America.
  44. Ally Disterhoft of Iowa, Canyon Barry of Florida Highlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 2, 2017 . March 2, 2017.
  45. Cassidy Mihalko of California Baptist and Adam Klie of UC San Diego Headline CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 1, 2017 . March 2, 2017.
  46. DeShawn Lowman of Neumann and Lisa Murphy of Carnegie Mellon Highlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 28, 2017 . March 2, 2017.
  47. Chandler Folkerts of Concordia (Neb.) and Cassidy Deno of Purdue Northwest Leads CoSIDA Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . February 27, 2017 . March 2, 2017.
  48. 2017-18 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Team Announced. College Sports Information Directors of America . March 12, 2018 . March 12, 2018.
  49. JEVON CARTER OF WEST VIRGINIA, CHERISE BEYNON OF NEW MEXICO HEADLINE COSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION I BASKETBALL TEAMS. College Sports Information Directors of America . March 12, 2018 . May 7, 2024.
  50. 2017-18 Academic All-America® NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Team Announced. College Sports Information Directors of America . March 13, 2018 . March 13, 2018.
  51. WEST LIBERTY'S DANIEL MONTEROSO, NORTHERN STATE'S MIRANDA RISTAU HEADLINE CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION II BASKETBALL TEAMS. College Sports Information Directors of America . March 13, 2018 . May 7, 2024.
  52. SAMM CHANDLER OF AVERETT, COOPER COOK OF NEBRASKA WESLEYAN HEADLINE CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION III WOMEN'S AND MEN'S BASKETBALL TEAMS. College Sports Information Directors of America . March 14, 2018 . May 7, 2024.
  53. 2017-18 Academic All-America® College Division Women's Basketball Team Announced. College Sports Information Directors of America . March 15, 2018 . March 15, 2018.
  54. CORNERSTONE'S KYLE STEIGENGA, VANGUARD'S AMBER ALEXANDER HEADLINE CoSIDA ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® COLLEGE DIVISION BASKETBALL TEAMS . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 15, 2018 . May 7, 2024.
  55. JOE SHERBURNE OF UMBC, MIKAYLA FERENZ OF IDAHO LEAD GOOGLE CLOUD ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION I MEN'S & WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAMS. . March 11, 2019 . May 7, 2024.
  56. JESSICA KELLIHER OF LEWIS, ISAAC ASRAT OF LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SPOTLIGHT GOOGLE CLOUD ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION II BASKETBALL TEAMS. . March 12, 2019 . May 7, 2024.
  57. MIT'S TIM ROBERTS, GALLAUDET'S HANNAH NEILD HEADLINE GOOGLE CLOUD ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® DIVISION III MEN'S AND WOMEN'S BASKETBALL TEAMS. . March 13, 2019 . May 7, 2024.
  58. BART HISCOCK OF HASTINGS, KENDALL KNAPKE OF INDIANA TECH SPOTLIGHT GOOGLE CLOUD ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICA® NAIA BASKETBALL TEAMS . . March 14, 2019 . May 7, 2024.
  59. 2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Team Announced . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 9, 2020 . March 9, 2020.
  60. 2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Teams Announced . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 10, 2020 . March 10, 2020.
  61. 2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Team Announced . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 11, 2020 . March 11, 2020.
  62. 2019-20 CoSIDA Academic All-America® NAIA Women's Basketball Team Announced . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 12, 2020 . March 12, 2020.
  63. Corey Kispert of Gonzaga, Aliyah Boston of South Carolina Lead Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Men's & Women's Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . May 28, 2021 . May 30, 2021.
  64. Sierra Kotchman of Fairmont State, Dalton Bolon of West Liberty Spotlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . May 27, 2021 . May 7, 2024.
  65. Gabriel Leifer of Yeshiva, Jenna Taylor of Simpson Headline Academic All-America® Division III Men's & Women's Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . May 26, 2021 . May 7, 2024.
  66. Kyle Mangas of Indiana Wesleyam, Kylah Comley of Sterling Spotlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® NAIA Basketball Teams . College Sports Information Directors of America . May 25, 2021 . May 7, 2024.
  67. 2021-22 Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams Announced For All NCAA and NAIA Divisions . College Sports Information Directors of America . March 16, 2022 . March 16, 2022.
  68. 2022-23 Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams Announced For All NCAA and NAIA Divisions . College Sports Communicators . March 15, 2023 . March 15, 2023.
  69. 2023-24 Academic All-America® Women's Basketball Teams announced for all NCAA and NAIA divisions . College Sports Communicators . April 16, 2024. April 16, 2024.

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