List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year
List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year is a list of the annual selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the annual Women's Basketball Academic All-America selections. 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 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, 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.
Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American 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. The most recent women's basketball player to have earned the all-sports honor is Grace Barry of Concordia University Nebraska, winner of the 2020 NAIA award.
University Division/Division I
All winners are Americans unless indicated otherwise. Names in bold were winners of the all-sports Academic All-America Award.Year | Name | School |
1987–88 | Oregon State University | |
1988–89 | Oregon State University | |
1989–90 | ||
1990–91 | Drake University | |
1991–92 | ||
1992–93 | ||
1993–94 | ||
1994–95 | ||
1995–96 | ||
1996–97 | North Carolina State University | |
1997–98 | Southwest Missouri State University | |
1998–99 | Purdue University | |
1999–00 | Jacksonville State University | |
2000–01 | ' | |
2001–02 | ' | |
2002–03 | Virginia Commonwealth University | |
2003–04 | Pennsylvania State University | |
2004–05 | Ball State University | |
2005–06 | Kent State University | |
2006–07 | Middle Tennessee State University | |
2007–08 | ||
2008–09 | Murray State University | |
2009–10 | ||
2010–11 | ||
2011–12 | ||
2012–13 | ||
2013–14 | Stanford University | |
2014–15 | Western Illinois University | |
2015–16 | ||
2016–17 | ||
2017–18 | ||
2018–19 | ||
2019–20 | Texas Tech University |