Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year

Pac-12 Women's Basketball Player of the Year
Awarded for	the most outstanding basketball player in the Pac-12 Conference
Country	United States
First awarded	1987
Currently held by	Jillian Alleyne, Oregon & Jamie Weisner, Oregon State

The Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Pac-12 Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1986–87 season, the first year in which the league then known as the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) officially sponsored women's sports.

Currently, two bodies vote for players of the year. The league's head coaches have selected a winner since the award's inception, and media members who cover Pac-12 women's basketball began presenting their own version of the award in the 2009–10 season.^[1] As is the case with the corresponding men's award, coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players.^[2]

Eight players have won the award more than once, but only one, Candice Wiggins of Stanford, has won three times. Four players, all from Stanford, have won a major end-of-season national award in the year that they won the conference award. Jennifer Azzi claimed the Naismith Award and Wade Trophy in 1990; Kate Starbird won the Naismith Award in 1997; Wiggins earned the Wade Trophy in 2008; and Chiney Ogwumike won the Wooden Award in 2014.^[3]

There have been three shared awards. Starbird and Tanja Kostić of Oregon State tied for the coaches' award in 1996. In 2015, Reshanda Gray of California won the coaches' award and Ruth Hamblin of Oregon State won the media award. The following year, Jamie Weisner of Oregon State won the coaches' award outright and shared the media award with Jillian Alleyne of Oregon.

The list of honorees has been dominated by Stanford, which has had 10 players earn a total of 18 awards. The rest of the conference has had 14 players earn a total of 15 awards. Four current Pac-12 members have yet to have a winner: established members Arizona State and Washington State, plus 2011 arrivals Colorado and Utah.

Key

†	Co-Players of the Year
*	Awarded a national Player of the Year award: Wade Trophy (1977–78 to present) Naismith College Player of the Year (1982–83 to present) John R. Wooden Award (2003–04 to present)
C	Pac-12 coaches selection (2010–present)
M	Media selection (2010–present)
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Pac-12 Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

Season	Player	School	Position	Class	Reference
1986–87	Landerholm, LauriLauri Landerholm	Oregon	Guard[4]	Senior[5]
1987–88	Nelson, CheriCheri Nelson	USC
1988–89	Azzi, JenniferJennifer Azzi	Stanford	Guard[6]	Junior
1989–90	Azzi, JenniferJennifer Azzi* (2)	Stanford	Guard[6]	Senior
1990–91	Henning, SonjaSonja Henning	Stanford	Guard[6]	Senior
1991–92	Whiting, ValVal Whiting	Stanford		Junior
1992–93	Whiting, ValVal Whiting	Stanford		Senior
1993–94	Williams, NatalieNatalie Williams	UCLA		Senior
1994–95	Kostić, TanjaTanja Kostić	Oregon State	Forward[7]	Junior
1995–96^†	Kostić, TanjaTanja Kostić	Oregon State	Forward[7]	Senior
1995–96^†	Starbird, KateKate Starbird	Stanford	Guard[6]	Junior
1996–97	Starbird, KateKate Starbird* (2)	Stanford	Guard[6]	Senior
1997–98	Barnes, AdiaAdia Barnes	Arizona		Senior
1998–99	Martin, MaylanaMaylana Martin	UCLA		Junior
1999–2000	Williams, ShaqualaShaquala Williams	Oregon	Guard[4]	Sophomore
2000–01	Ragland, FeliciaFelicia Ragland	Oregon State	Guard[8]	Junior[8]
2001–02	Powell, NicoleNicole Powell	Stanford	Forward[6]	Sophomore
2002–03	Mendiola, GiulianaGiuliana Mendiola	Washington	Guard[9]	Junior
2003–04	Powell, NicoleNicole Powell (2)	Stanford	Forward[6]	Senior
2004–05	Wiggins, CandiceCandice Wiggins	Stanford	Guard[6]	Freshman
2005–06	Wiggins, CandiceCandice Wiggins (2)	Stanford	Guard[6]	Sophomore
2006–07	Hampton, DevaneiDevanei Hampton	California		Sophomore
2007–08	Wiggins, CandiceCandice Wiggins* (3)	Stanford	Guard[6]	Senior
2008–09	Appel, JayneJayne Appel	Stanford		Junior
2009–10	Ogwumike, NnekaNneka Ogwumike	Stanford	Forward[6]	Sophomore
2010–11	Pohlen, JeanetteJeanette Pohlen	Stanford	Guard[10]	Senior[10]
2011–12	Ogwumike, NnekaNneka Ogwumike (2)	Stanford	Forward[6]	Senior
2012–13	Ogwumike, ChineyChiney Ogwumike	Stanford	Forward[6]	Junior
2013–14	Ogwumike, ChineyChiney Ogwumike* (2)	Stanford	Forward[6]	Senior
2014–15 ^†	Gray, ReshandaReshanda Gray^C	California	Forward	Senior	[11]
2014–15 ^†	Hamblin, RuthRuth Hamblin^M	Oregon State	Center	Junior	[12]
2015–16 ^†	Alleyne, JillianJillian Alleyne^M	Oregon	Forward	Senior	[1]
2015–16 ^†	Weisner, JamieJamie Weisner^C, M	Oregon State	Guard	Senior	[2][1]

Winners by school

School (year joined)[a 1]	Winners	Years
Stanford (1959)	18	1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1996^†, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
Oregon State (1964)	5	1995, 1996^†, 2001, 2015^†, 2016^†
Oregon (1964)	3	1987, 2000, 2016^†
California (1959)	2	2007, 2015^†
UCLA (1959)	2	1994, 1999
Arizona (1978)	1	1998
USC (1959)	1	1988
Washington (1959)	1	2003
Arizona State (1978)	0	—
Colorado (2011)	0	—
Utah (2011)	0	—
Washington State (1962)	0	—

Footnotes

1. For purposes of this table, the "year joined" reflects the year that each team joined the conference now known as the Pac-12 as currently chartered. Although the Pac-12 claims the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), founded in 1915, as part of its own history, that conference disbanded in 1959 due to infighting and scandal. That same year, five PCC members established the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) under a new charter that functions to this day. The Player of the Year Award was not established until 1987, by which time the conference membership included all of the final members of the PCC except for Idaho, plus 1978 arrivals Arizona and Arizona State.

References

General

• List of winners through 2014–15: "Conference Honors: Player of the Year". 2015–16 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Media Guide. Pac-12 Conference. p. 69. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
• Classes of winners: All award winners but four—Landerholm (1987), Nelson (1988), Ragland (2001), and Pohlen (2011)—were on the conference's All-Freshman Team. Extrapolating from the conference's list of All-Freshman Team members allows a Player of the Year's class to be determined. "Conference Honors: All-Freshman Team". 2015–16 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Media Guide. Pac-12 Conference. p. 68. Retrieved March 2, 2016.

Specific

1. "Media votes Alleyne, Weisner Players of the Year" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference. March 2, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
2. "Pac-12 announces women’s basketball honors" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference. February 29, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
3. "National Honors". 2015–16 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Media Guide. Pac-12 Conference. p. 63. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
4. "Awards and Honors" (PDF). Oregon Women's Basketball 2015–16 Media Guide. Oregon Ducks. p. 44. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
5. "Oregon's 1,000-Point Scorers" (PDF). Oregon Women's Basketball 2015–16 Media Guide. Oregon Ducks. p. 58. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
6. "Nine Pac-12 All-Century" (Press release). Stanford Cardinal. February 29, 2016. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
7. "Year-By-Year Results" (PDF). 2015–16 Oregon State Women's Basketball Media Guide. Oregon State Beavers. p. 95–96. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
8. "All-Time Greats: Felicia Ragland" (PDF). 2015–16 Oregon State Women's Basketball Media Guide. Oregon State Beavers. p. 123. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
9. "Meet the Huskies" (PDF). 2003–04 Washington Women's Basketball Media Guide. Washington Huskies. p. 26. Retrieved March 4, 2016.
10. "Women's Basketball: 2010–11 Roster". Stanford Cardinal. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
11. "2014-15 Pac-12 Women's Basketball Honors" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference. March 3, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
12. "2014-15 Women's Basketball Media Honors" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference. March 4, 2015. Retrieved March 3, 2016.