Wade Trophy
title: "Wade Trophy" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["college-women's-basketball-national-player-awards-in-the-united-states", "state-farm", "awards-established-in-1978", "1978-establishments-in-the-united-states"] topic_path: "sports" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Trophy" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Wade Trophy |
| imagesize | 155px |
| caption | The 2010 Wade Trophy |
| awarded_for | The best female college basketball player in the United States |
| presenter | Women's Basketball Coaches Association (starting in 2001) |
| country | United States |
| year | 1978 |
| holder | Paige Bueckers, UConn |
| website | Official website |
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| name = Wade Trophy | image = | imagesize = 155px | caption = The 2010 Wade Trophy | awarded_for = The best female college basketball player in the United States | presenter = Women's Basketball Coaches Association (starting in 2001) | country = United States | location = | year = 1978 | holder = Paige Bueckers, UConn | website = Official website The Wade Trophy is an award presented annually to the best women's basketball player in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I competition. It is named after three–time national champion Delta State University coach Lily Margaret Wade. The award debuted in 1978 as the first–ever women's national player of the year award in college basketball. State Farm Insurance sponsors the award, and the trophy is presented at the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) National Convention.
UConn has the most all-time awards with ten, and the most individual recipients, with seven. Maya Moore is the only player to win the Wade Trophy three times, accomplishing the feat in 2009 (only sophomore ever to win the award), 2010 and 2011. Other multiple award winners include Nancy Lieberman (1979, 1980), Seimone Augustus (2005, 2006), Brittney Griner (2012, 2013), Breanna Stewart (2015, 2016), Sabrina Ionescu (2019, 2020), and Caitlin Clark (2023, 2024).
Baylor is in sole possession of second in total awards, and is in a second-place tie with two other schools for the most individual recipients. Three Baylor players have combined to win four awards. The other two programs with three individual recipients are Louisiana Tech and Texas, with all of each school's winners having received the award once. There have never been any ties for the award.
Eligibility and criteria
All academically eligible women's basketball athletes, in NCAA Division I qualify as candidates.
- Member of the NCAA Division I Kodak/WBCA All-America Team
- Game and season statistics
- Effect on team
- Leadership
- Character
- Overall playing ability
- Player that embodies the "Spirit of Margaret Wade" as defined by the WBCA and the NAGWS
Winners
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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Breanna_Stewart_Wade_Trophy_cropped.jpg" caption="[[Breanna Stewart]] receiving the Wade Trophy at the 2015 WBCA convention in Tampa Bay FL"] ::
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| Player (n) | Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Wade Trophy at that point |
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