The Dawn Staley Award was established in 2013 to "recognize the nation’s best guard in NCAA Division I women's basketball". 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".
Winners SeasonPlayerSchoolClassRef. 2012–13 Notre Dame 2013–14 Baylor 2014–15 South Carolina 2015–16 UConn 2016–17 Washington 2017–18 Ohio State 2018–19 Louisville 2019–20 South Carolina 2020–21 Iowa 2021–22 (2) Iowa 2022–23 (3) Iowa 2023–24 Notre Dame 2024–25 USC 2025–26 Ohio State
See also List of sports awards honoring women
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