Stanford’s Chiney Ogwumike wins the 2013-14 John R. Wooden Award
Stanford University senior Chiney Ogwumike is the recipient of the 2013-14 John R. Wooden Award presented at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Friday evening.
Ogwumike is a two-time Pac-12 Player of the Year and three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year. She led her team to the Final Four three times in her four seasons with the Cardinal, including this year.
Voting took place from March 12 through 25, allowing voters to take into account play through the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Voters are national women’s college basketball experts who ranked 15 balloted players, and Ogwumike recorded the highest point total. All players have proven to their universities that they are making progress toward graduation and are maintaining at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA, an important component of the Award insisted upon by Coach Wooden.
Ogwumike received 774 points, followed by Odyssey Sims of Baylor with 761, Breanna Stewart of Connecticut with 732, Kayla McBride of Notre Dame with 562, and Alyssa Thomas rounded out the top five with 509 points. All five players are Wooden Award All Americans for 2014.
Ogwumike is the first Wooden Award winner from Stanford, and the first from the Pac-12 Conference as well. She was a Wooden Award All American in 2013, and her older sister, Nneka, was a Wooden Award All American at Stanford in 2012. Ogwumike was joined in Los Angeles for the Gala event by Nneka, other family members, and her Stanford coach, Tara VanDerveer.
The John R. Wooden Award Player of the Year was announced as part of the 38th annual Wooden Award Gala which honors the men’s and women’s Wooden Award winners, and includes the presentation of the Wooden Award All American Teams and the Legends of Coaching Award, this year given to VanDerveer.
John R. Wooden Award All-Time Women’s Winners
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Year
|
Player | School |
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2014
|
Chiney Ogwumike | Stanford University |
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2013
|
Brittney Griner | Baylor University |
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2012
|
Brittney Griner | Baylor University |
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2011
|
Maya Moore | University of Connecticut |
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2010
|
Tina Charles | University of Connecticut |
|
2009
|
Maya Moore | University of Connecticut |
|
2008
|
Candace Parker | University of Tennessee |
|
2007
|
Candace Parker | University of Tennessee |
|
2006
|
Seimone Augustus | Louisiana State University |
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2005
|
Seimone Augustus | Louisiana State University |
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2004
|
Alana Beard | Duke University |
