The nation’s best guard in Women’s Division I college basketball
Country
United States
Presented by
Phoenix Club of Philadelphia
First awarded
2013
Currently held by
Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame
Website
Official site
The Dawn Staley Award was established in 2013 to "recognize the nation’s best guard in Women’s Division I college basketball".[1] It was established by the Phoenix club of Philadelphia, an organization established to recognize the achievements of outstanding male and female basketball players. The award was named after Dawn Staley, a Philadelphia native recognized as one of the nation's best guards in women's college basketball history. The organization establish a watchlist of potential winners during the year and at the end of the season selects the player who "exemplifies the skills that Dawn possessed throughout her career; ball handling, scoring, her ability to distribute the basketball and her will to win".[1]
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The DawnStaleyAward was established in 2013 to "recognize the nation’s best guard in Women’s Division I college basketball". It was established by the...
Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970) is an American basketball Hall of Fame player and coach who is currently the head coach for the reigning champion...
Clark became the first back-to-back recipient of the DawnStaleyAward and won the Nancy Lieberman Award as the top Division I point guard. As a sophomore...
2017—DawnStaleyAward 2017—The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award as USBWA national player of the year 2017—Naismith Trophy 2017—Nancy Lieberman Award 2017—WBCA...
Writers Association (USBWA) in 2020. She is also the winner of the 2020 DawnStaleyAward, which is named after her coach at South Carolina. Harris is the first...
The DawnStaley Community Leadership Award is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's 2008 season, that...
2015—WBCA All-America Team 2015—Nancy Lieberman Award 2016—Nancy Lieberman Award 2016—DawnStaleyAward "Moriah Jefferson". USA Basketball. Archived from...
All-American team 2014—Nancy Lieberman Award 2014—Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award 2014—Wade Trophy 2014—DawnStaleyAward "WBB, Notre Dame Battle for NCAA Title...
Basketball Female Athlete of the Year, becoming the second teenager to win the award. Makauskas, Caroline (October 31, 2022). "New Jersey hoops star Hannah Hidalgo...
five multiple winners: Geno Auriemma with eight; Pat Summitt with five; DawnStaley with four; and Muffet McGraw and Tara VanDerveer with three each. Officially...
2014—AAC First team 2014–15 added to watchlist for the Wooden Award, DawnStaleyaward, the Naismith Trophy, and the Wade Trophy 2015—AP All-America honorable...
Olajuwon in 1983 and DawnStaley was the only woman to do so when she won the award in 1991. Six men and five women have won the award multiple times. Lew...
www.usfdons.com. Retrieved April 5, 2016. "DawnStaley to be Honored With UVa's Distinguished Alumna Award". www.virginiasports.com. Retrieved April 5...
December 2022). "Gamecocks' Kamilla Cardoso chooses dominance after DawnStaley sermon". The Post and Courier. Retrieved 14 July 2023. Fowler, Chapel...
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