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Caitlin Clark - Winner 2022 Dawn Staley Award


"Given the blessing that the game of basketball has been in my life, I take great joy in any opportunity I have to highlight and to celebrate the great young players in our game today. It makes one of my favorite days of the year the day we announce the winner of the Dawn Staley Award, given to the nation’s most outstanding guard.

Every winner has been a special player and a special person, but this year’s award is unique – in Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, we have the first ever two-time winner and Caitlin absolutely deserves it.
A dynamic offensive player with shooting range the likes of which our game has never seen, Caitlin led the nation in both scoring and assists this season. She’s an absolute force, someone who is quite literally changing the way basketball is being played. She’s a winner, leading her team to the Big 10 Tournament Championship and a shared regular season title. And she’s also a terrific person, the type of player and the type of woman we can be proud to have as an ambassador for our game for years to come."


Dawn Staley


Caitlin will be honored as part of a virtual ceremony on Thursday April 7th, 2022.

Arielle Chambers

2022 Excellence in Broadcasting Honoree

The Dawn Staley Award


is given to the most outstanding collegiate guard in the country; a player who exemplifies the skills that Dawn possessed during her career (ball handling, scoring, her ability to distribute the basketball and her will to win).