West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year explained

WCC Women's Basketball Player of the Year
Awarded For:the most outstanding basketball player in the West Coast Conference
Country:United States
Year:1986
Holder:Yvonne Ejim, Gonzaga

The West Coast Conference (WCC) Women's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the most outstanding women's basketball player in the West Coast Conference. The award has been given ever since the conference first sponsored women's basketball in the 1985–86 season, when it was known as the West Coast Athletic Conference. There have been two ties in the history of the award. The first was in 2006–07 between Stephanie Hawk of Gonzaga and Amanda Rego of Santa Clara (coincidentally, players from the same two schools were involved in a tie for the WCC Men's Player of the Year Award that season[1]). The second was in 2020–21, when BYU's Shaylee Gonzales and Gonzaga's Jenn Wirth shared honors. There have also been a total of four repeat winners, but only one—Courtney Vandersloot of Gonzaga—has been Player of the Year three times.

No one WCC school has dominated the total awards distribution over time. The overall leader is Gonzaga, with 12 awards; BYU is next with seven, while Saint Mary's and Santa Clara have five each. Of these schools, all but BYU, which joined the WCC in 2011 and left for the Big 12 Conference in 2023, have been WCC members throughout the conference's women's basketball history. Each current WCC member except for Pacific has at least one award. Pacific had been a charter member of what is now the WCC, but left in 1971, long before the conference sponsored women's sports, and did not return until 2013. The only former WCC women's basketball member that failed to produce an award winner was Nevada, which only participated in the conference's first two women's basketball seasons (1985–86 and 1986–87).

Key

†Co-Players of the Year
Awarded a national Player of the Year award:
the Naismith College Player of the Year, the John R. Wooden Award, or Wade Trophy
Player (X)Denotes the number of times the player has received the Player of the Year award

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClassReference
1985–86U.S. International
1986–87San Francisco
1987–88Santa Clara
1988–89Saint Mary's
1989–90 (2)Saint Mary's
1990–91Santa Clara
1991–92Portland
1992–93 (2)Santa Clara
1993–94[2] [3] Santa Clara
1994–95Portland
1995–96 Portland
1996–97Portland
1997–98Santa Clara
1998–99Saint Mary's
1999–2000Pepperdine
2000–01Saint Mary's
2001–02<--Not a typo or misprint... Jermisha and Jerkisha, presumably twins, are both separately listed in the WCC's official list of all-conference teams.-->Saint Mary's
2002–03Pepperdine
2003–04Loyola Marymount
2004–05Gonzaga
2005–06Santa Clara
2006–07†Gonzaga
San Diego
2007–08Gonzaga
2008–09GonzagaPG
2009–10 (2)GonzagaPG
2010–11 (3)GonzagaPG
2011–12BYUF[4]
2012–13GonzagaSG[5]
2013–14BYUC[6]
2014–15BYUF[7]
2015–16BYUG[8]
2016–17BYUG[9]
2017–18GonzagaF[10]
2018–19PepperdineF[11]
2019–20GonzagaG[12]
2020–21†align=center align=center BYUalign=center Galign=center align=center [13]
align=center align=center Gonzagaalign=center Falign=center align=center
align=center 2021–22align=center (2)align=center BYUalign=center Galign=center align=center [14]
align=center 2022–23align=center align=center Gonzagaalign=center Galign=center align=center [15]
align=center 2023–24align=center align=center Gonzagaalign=center Falign=center align=center [16]

Winners by school

Note: Years of entry for each school are the actual calendar years they joined the WCC and first played women's basketball in the conference. Because the basketball season spans two calendar years, the award years reflect the years in which each season ended. Schools that have left the WCC are highlighted in italics.

SchoolJoined WCC
as full member		Joined WCC
women's basketball		WinnersYears
Gonzaga19791987[17] 122005, 2007†, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2020, 2021†, 2023, 2024
BYU20112011[18] 72012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021†, 2022
Saint Mary's19521987[19] 51989, 1990, 1999, 2001, 2002
Santa Clara19521985[20] 51991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2006
Portland19761987[21] 41992, 1995, 1996, 1997
Pepperdine19551985[22] 32000, 2003, 2019
Loyola Marymount19551985[23] 12004
San Diego19791985[24] 12007†
San Francisco19521985[25] 11987
U.S. International—198511986
Nevada—19850—
Pacific1952/201320130—

References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: WCC Individual Honors . 2012–13 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Record Book . West Coast Conference . March 14, 2013 . January 20, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130120061143/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/west/sports/m-baskbl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/MBB12-13records.pdf . dead .
  2. Players of the Year can be found in two different places in the referenced WCC record book—in the dedicated list on page 62, and designated in the list of All-Conference players on page 63. The 1993–94 season is the only one in which the two designations disagree. Silvernall is included in the dedicated list of Players of the Year; in addition, Santa Clara claims her as WCC Player of the Year in its official record book.
  3. Web site: Honors and Awards: Athletic Honors . Santa Clara Broncos Women's Basketball Records & History, 2012–13 . . March 11, 2013.
  4. 2011–12 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Weekly Release: March 27, 2012 . West Coast Conference . March 11, 2013 . January 11, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120111075249/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/west/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/2011-12/release/release_final.pdf . dead .
  5. West Coast Conference Announces 2013 Women's Basketball All-Conference Team . West Coast Conference . March 5, 2013 . March 11, 2013.
  6. WCC Announces Women's Basketball All-Conference Team . West Coast Conference . March 3, 2014 . March 8, 2014.
  7. WCC Announces Women's Basketball All-Conference Team . West Coast Conference . March 3, 2015 . March 4, 2015.
  8. WCC Announces Women's Basketball All-Conference Team . West Coast Conference . March 1, 2016 . March 1, 2016.
  9. WCC Women's Basketball 2017 All-Conference Team Announced . West Coast Conference . February 28, 2017 . February 28, 2017.
  10. WCC Women's Basketball 2018 All-Conference Team Announced . West Coast Conference . February 27, 2018 . February 27, 2018.
  11. WCC Women's Basketball 2019 All-Conference Team Announced . West Coast Conference . March 5, 2019 . March 5, 2019.
  12. 2020 WBB All-WCC Team Announced . West Coast Conference . March 3, 2020 . March 3, 2020.
  13. WCC Announces 2020-21 Women's Basketball All-Conference Honors . West Coast Conference . March 2, 2021 . March 2, 2021.
  14. Gonzalez Named WCC Player of the Year . West Coast Conference . March 2, 2022 . March 2, 2022.
  15. WCC Announces 2022-23 Women's Basketball All-Conference Awards . West Coast Conference . March 1, 2023 . March 1, 2023.
  16. WCC Announces 2023-24 Women's Basketball All-Conference Awards . West Coast Conference . March 5, 2024 . March 5, 2024.
  17. Web site: 2012–13 Gonzaga Women's Basketball Media Guide . . March 11, 2013. See "Gonzaga Year-by-Year" table on page 29 and full "Year-by-Year Results" on Page 42.
  18. BYU Becomes Ninth Member of West Coast Conference . West Coast Conference . July 1, 2011 . March 14, 2013.
  19. Web site: Year-by-Year Results . 2012–13 Saint Mary's Women's Basketball Records . . PDF . 78 . March 13, 2013. Note: The content of Page 78 is duplicated on Page 79.
  20. Web site: Year-by-Year Results . 2012–13 Santa Clara Women's Basketball Records . . March 14, 2013.
  21. Web site: Season Summaries . 2012–13 Portland Pilots Women's Basketball History & Records . . 17 . March 14, 2013.
  22. Web site: 2012–13 Pepperdine Women's Basketball Records Book . . 3 . March 14, 2013. Click the thumbnail on the left side of the page to access the virtual book.
  23. Web site: Year-by-Year Results . 2012–13 LMU Women's Basketball Record Book . . 68 . March 14, 2013 . September 6, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906041041/http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/loyo/sports/w-baskbl/auto_pdf/2012-13/misc_non_event/2012-13_Record_Book.pdf . dead .
  24. Web site: Team Records: Torero Women's Basketball Year-by-Year . 2012–13 San Diego Toreros Women's Basketball Media Guide . . 113 . March 14, 2013.
  25. Web site: Year-by-Year Results . 2010–11 San Francisco Dons Women's Basketball Almanac . . 49 . March 14, 2013.

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