The West Coast Conference (WCC) Women's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the most outstanding women's basketball player in the West Coast Conference. The award has been given ever since the conference first sponsored women's basketball in the 1985–86 season, when it was known as the West Coast Athletic Conference. There have been two ties in the history of the award. The first was in 2006–07 between Stephanie Hawk of Gonzaga and Amanda Rego of Santa Clara (coincidentally, players from the same two schools were involved in a tie for the WCC Men's Player of the Year Award that season). The second was in 2020–21, when BYU's Shaylee Gonzales and Gonzaga's Jenn Wirth shared honors. There have also been a total of five repeat winners, but only one—Courtney Vandersloot of Gonzaga—has been Player of the Year three times.

No one WCC school has dominated the total awards distribution over time. The overall leader is Gonzaga, with 14 awards; BYU is next with seven, while Saint Mary's and Santa Clara have five each. Of these schools, all but BYU, which joined the WCC in 2011 and left for the Big 12 Conference in 2023, have been WCC members throughout the conference's women's basketball history. Each current full WCC member except for Pacific and Seattle has at least one award. Pacific had been a charter member of what is now the WCC, but left in 1971, long before the conference sponsored women's sports, and did not return until 2013. Seattle left the WCC in 1980, well before the conference sponsored women's basketball, and did not return until 2025. Denver will join the conference in July 2026, followed by UC San Diego in July 2027.

As of the next 2026–27 WCC season, the only former WCC women's basketball members that failed to produce an award winner are Nevada, Oregon State, and Washington State. Nevada only participated in the conference's first two women's basketball seasons (1985–86 and 1986–87). Oregon State and Washington State, which also did not produce any winners, joined as associate members in 2024–25 after the collapse of their full-time home of the Pac-12 Conference. The 2025–26 season was their last as WCC affiliates; the Pac-12 will resume full operation in 2026–27 with seven new members, including Gonzaga.

Key †Co-Players of the Year*Awarded a national player of the year award that same season: the Naismith College Player of the Year, the John R. Wooden Award, or Wade TrophyPlayer (X)Denotes the number of times the player has received the WCC Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClassReference1985–86U.S. International 1986–87San Francisco1987–88Santa Clara1988–89Saint Mary's1989–90 (2)Saint Mary's1990–91Santa Clara1991–92Portland1992–93 (2)Santa Clara1993–94Players of the Year can be found in two different places in the referenced WCC record book—in the dedicated list on page 62, and designated in the list of All-Conference players on page 63. The 1993–94 season is the only one in which the two designations disagree. Silvernall is included in the dedicated list of Players of the Year; in addition, Santa Clara claims her as WCC Player of the Year in its official record book.Santa Clara1994–95Portland 1995–96 Portland 1996–97Portland1997–98Santa Clara1998–99Saint Mary's1999–2000Pepperdine2000–01Saint Mary's 2001–02Saint Mary's 2002–03Pepperdine 2003–04Loyola Marymount2004–05Gonzaga2005–06Santa Clara 2006–07†Gonzaga San Diego 2007–08Gonzaga 2008–09GonzagaPG 2009–10 (2)GonzagaPG2010–11 (3)GonzagaPG2011–12BYUF2012–13GonzagaSG2013–14BYUC2014–15BYUF2015–16BYUG2016–17BYUG2017–18GonzagaF2018–19PepperdineF 2019–20GonzagaG 2020–21† BYU G Gonzaga F 2021–22 (2) BYU G 2022–23 Gonzaga G 2023–24 Gonzaga F 2024–25 (2) Gonzaga F 2025–26 Gonzaga F

Winners by school Note: Years of entry for each school are the actual calendar years they joined the WCC and first played women's basketball in the conference. Because the basketball season spans two calendar years, the award years reflect the years in which each season ended. Schools that have left the WCC are highlighted in italics.

School Joined WCCas full member Joined WCC women's basketball Winners Years Gonzaga 1979 1987 See "Gonzaga Year-by-Year" table on page 29 and full "Year-by-Year Results" on Page 42. 14 2005, 2007†, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2018, 2020, 2021†, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026 BYU 2011 2011 7 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021†, 2022 Santa Clara 1952 1985 6 1988, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2006 Saint Mary's 1952 1987 Note: The content of Page 78 is duplicated on Page 79. 5 1989, 1990, 1999, 2001, 2002 Portland 1976 1987 4 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997 Pepperdine 1955 1985 Click the thumbnail on the left side of the page to access the virtual book. 3 2000, 2003, 2019Loyola Marymount 1955 19851 2004San Diego 1979 19851 2007† San Francisco 1952 1985 1 1987 U.S. International — 1985 1 1986 Nevada —19850 — Oregon State — 2024 0 —Pacific 1952/2013 2013 0 — Seattle 1971/2025 2025 0 — Washington State — 2024 0 —

Footnotes

References General Names of winners through 2010–11: Class years of winners through 2010–11:

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