The Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's 2008 season, that recognizes a player who is an inspiration in her community and reflects Dawn Staley’s leadership, spirit, charitable efforts and love for the game. This is the same criterion used by the analogous NBA Community Assist Award, given by the NBA since its 2001-02 season. However, this award is distinct from the WNBA Community Assist Award, first presented on a monthly basis in 2009 with a season-long award added in 2019.

Every year, each of the WNBA teams nominates one of its players to compete for this award. From these nominees, a designated committee vote for the winner and the WNBA donates $10,000 to a charity that the player chooses on their behalf.

Tamika Catchings, Tina Charles, Elena Delle Donne have won the award the most times, with 2 selections each.

Winners Denotes player who is still active in the WNBA Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Denotes player whose team won championship that yearPlayer (X)Denotes the number of times the player has wonTeam (X)Denotes the number of times a player from this team has won Season Player Position Nationality Team 2008 Tamika Catchings Forward Indiana Fever 2009 Tamika Raymond Forward Connecticut Sun 2010 Chamique Holdsclaw Forward San Antonio Silver Stars 2011 Charde Houston Forward Minnesota Lynx 2012 Tina Charles Center Connecticut Sun (2) 2013 Kara Lawson Guard Connecticut Sun (3) 2014 Elena Delle Donne Guard / Forward Chicago Sky 2015 Elena Delle Donne (2) Guard / Forward Chicago Sky (2) 2016 Tamika Catchings (2) Forward Indiana Fever (2) 2017 Ivory Latta Guard Washington Mystics 2018 Skylar Diggins Guard Dallas Wings 2019 Natasha Cloud Guard Washington Mystics (2) 2020 Natalie Achonwa Center Indiana Fever (3) 2021 Not awarded 2022 Betnijah Laney Guard / Forward New York Liberty 2023 Kelsey Mitchell Guard Indiana Fever (4) 2024 A'ja Wilson Forward Las Vegas Aces (2) 2025 Tina Charles (2) Center Connecticut Sun (4)

Multi-time winners AwardsPlayerTeam(s)Years2Elena Delle DonneChicago Sky2014, 2015Tamika CatchingsIndiana Fever2008, 2016Tina CharlesConnecticut Sun2012, 2025

See also

List of sports awards honoring women

References