Ann Meyers Drysdale Award


The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award is an award presented annually to the best women's basketball shooting guard in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I competition. It is named after Hall of Famer Ann Meyers Drysdale, the first high school player to make the United States national team and the first woman to receive a full athletic scholarship to UCLA. Meyers was also the first player, male or female, named to an All-America team in four straight seasons. She played on the first women's Olympic team in 1976 and became the first woman drafted into the Women's Basketball League. Meyers made history when she became the first female player to try out for a NBA team.
The Ann Meyers Drysdale Award was first presented in 2018, when WBCA and the Naismith Hall, in collaboration with ESPN, incorporated the Nancy Lieberman Award, first presented in 2000 to the top Division I women's point guard, into a new set of awards known as the "Naismith Starting Five" that are presented at the WBCA convention to players at each of the five traditional basketball positions. These awards parallel a previously existing set of men's basketball positional awards also presented by the Hall. In addition to the Lieberman Award, the other three new awards are:
Winners for each of the Starting Five awards are determined by a selection committee consisting of Hall of Famers, WBCA coaching members, and media, and headed by the award's namesake. Fan voting through the Hall's website is also incorporated into the selection process.

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Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolClassRef.
2017–18Mississippi State
2018–19Louisville
2019–20Arizona

Winners by school