2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans

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An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—which in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who national media members select. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.[1] The 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), The Sporting News (TSN), and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The AP, TSN and USBWA choose three teams, while WBCA lists ten honorees.

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2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans
Members of the 2024 All-America first team (AP, TSN, USBWA). Clockwise from upper left: Brink, Clark, and Watkins.
Awarded for2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
 2023 ·
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A consensus All-America team in women's basketball has never been organized. This differs from the practice in men's basketball, in which the NCAA uses a combination of selections by AP, USBWA, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and Sporting News to determine a consensus All-America team. The selection of a consensus All-America men's basketball team is possible because all four organizations select at least a first and second team, with only the USBWA not selecting a third team.

Before the 2017–18 season, a consensus women's All-America team couldn't be determined because the AP had been the only body that divided its women's selections into separate teams. The USBWA first named different teams in 2017–18. The women's counterpart to the NABC, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), continues the USBWA's former practice of selecting a single 10-member (plus ties) team. Before the 2023–24 season, Sporting News did not select an All-America team in women's basketball.

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Associated Press (AP)

Announced on March 20, 2024. The teams are selected by the same 28-member media panel that votes on the AP poll during the season. Of note:[2]

  • Caitlin Clark became the eleventh player selected as a three-time first-team All-American.
  • Clark was a unanimous first-team selection.

AP Honorable Mention

Honorable mention selections are those who did not make one of the first three teams, but received at least one vote from the media panel.

United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA)

The USBWA announced its 15-member team, divided into first, second, and third teams, plus honorable mention selections, on March 19, 2024. Vote totals were not released.[3]

More information First team, Second team ...
First team Second team Third team
PlayerSchool PlayerSchool PlayerSchool
Cameron BrinkStanfordAaliyah EdwardsUConnGeorgia AmooreVirginia Tech
Paige BueckersUConnHannah HidalgoNotre DameMadison BookerTexas
Kamilla CardosoSouth CarolinaMackenzie HolmesIndianaDyaisha FairSyracuse
Caitlin ClarkIowaElizabeth KitleyVirginia TechAlissa PiliUtah
Angel ReeseLSUTe-Hina PaopaoSouth CarolinaJacy SheldonOhio State
JuJu WatkinsUSC
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USBWA Honorable Mention

The Sporting News (TSN)

The Sporting News announced its 15-member team, divided into first, second and third teams, on March 19, 2024.[4]

More information First team, Second team ...
First team Second team Third team
PlayerSchool PlayerSchool PlayerSchool
Cameron BrinkStanfordRaegan BeersOregon StateMadison BookerTexas
Caitlin ClarkIowaPaige BueckersUConnAaliyah EdwardsUConn
Hannah HidalgoNotre DameKamilla CardosoSouth CarolinaDyaisha FairSyracuse
Liz KitleyVirginia TechAngel ReeseLSUAyoka LeeKansas State
JuJu WatkinsUSCJacy SheldonOhio StateAlissa PiliUtah
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Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA)

Announced on April 4, 2024.[5]

More information Player, School ...
PlayerSchool
Madison BookerTexas
Cameron BrinkStanford
Paige BueckersUConn
Kamilla CardosoSouth Carolina
Caitlin ClarkIowa
Aaliyah EdwardsUConn
Hannah HidalgoNotre Dame
Elizabeth KitleyVirginia Tech
Angel ReeseLSU
JuJu WatkinsUSC
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Academic All-Americans

College Sports Communicators (known before the 2022–23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America) will announce its 2024 Academic All-America team on April 17, 2024.[6] The Division I Academic All-American of the Year is indicated in bold.[7]

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First Team
Player School Class GPA and major
Georgia Amoore Virginia Tech Senior 3.56, Sociology
Paige Bueckers UConn Junior 3.50, Human Development & Family Sciences
Caitlin Clark Iowa Senior 3.64, Marketing
Mackenzie Holmes Indiana Graduate 3.62/3.64, Human Development & Family Studies (U)
Elizabeth Kitley Virginia Tech Graduate 3.90/4.0, Curriculum & Instruction
Ayoka Lee Kansas State Senior 3.90/3.85, Masters in Couple & Family Counseling
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Second Team
Player School Class GPA and major
Raegan Beers Oregon State Sophomore 3.55, Education
Kaitlyn Chen Princeton Senior 3.54, Medical Anthropology
Yvonne Ejim Gonzaga Senior 3.55, Human Physiology
Hannah Jump Stanford Graduate 3.76, Psychology
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Third Team
Player School Class GPA and major
Frida Formann Colorado Senior 4.0, Environmental Studies
Shay Holle Texas Senior 3.54/4.0, Finance
Morgan Maly Creighton Senior 3.95, Exercise Science
Irene Murua Detroit Mercy Senior 4.0, Mathematics
Rachael Rose Wofford Junior 3.86, Psychology
Amy Velasco Bowling Green Junior 4.0, Physical Education and Health Education
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