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.[1]

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.[2]

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

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 year
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has won
Team (X) Denotes the number of times a player from this team has won
Season Player Position Nationality Team
2008 Tamika Catchings Forward[3]  United States Indiana Fever
2009 Tamika Raymond Forward[4]  United States Connecticut Sun
2010 Chamique Holdsclaw Forward[5]  United States San Antonio Silver Stars
2011 Charde Houston Forward[6]  United States Minnesota Lynx
2012 Tina Charles Center[7]  United States Connecticut Sun (2)
2013 Kara Lawson Guard[8]  United States Connecticut Sun (3)
2014 Elena Delle Donne Guard / Forward[9]  United States Chicago Sky
2015 Elena Delle Donne (2) Guard / Forward[10]  United States Chicago Sky (2)
2016 Tamika Catchings (2) Forward[11]  United States Indiana Fever (2)
2017 Ivory Latta Guard[12]  United States Washington Mystics
2018 Skylar Diggins-Smith Guard[13]  United States Dallas Wings
2019 Natasha Cloud Guard[14]  United States Washington Mystics (2)
2020 Natalie Achonwa Center[15]  Canada Indiana Fever (3)
2021 None[16]
2022 Betnijah Laney Guard / Forward[17]  United States New York Liberty
2023 Kelsey Mitchell Guard[18]  United States Indiana Fever (4)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "WNBA Cares Community Assist – Past Winners". WNBA. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  2. ↑ "WNBA Announces Creation of Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". virginiasports.com. virginiasports.com. Retrieved 2006-11-16.
  3. ↑ "Catchings Wins Inaugural Dawn Staley Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2008-06-24.
  4. ↑ "Tamika Raymond receives leadership award". oursportscentral.com. oursportscentral.com. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
  5. ↑ "Chamique Holdsclaw Receives Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  6. ↑ "Charde Houston Receives Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2011-07-08.
  7. ↑ "Tina Charles Receives Community Leader Award". wnba.com. wnba.com.
  8. ↑ "Kara Lawson Receives Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2013-05-16.
  9. ↑ "Elena Delle Donne Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award for Inspirational Off-Court Efforts". bluehens.com. bluehens.com. Retrieved 2014-06-18.
  10. ↑ "Chicago's Elena Delle Donne Earns Second Straight Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
  11. ↑ "Catchings Named Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award Winner". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  12. ↑ "Washington Mystics' Ivory Latta Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
  13. ↑ "Diggins-Smith Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  14. ↑ "Washington's Natasha Cloud Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.
  15. ↑ "Indiana's Natalie Achonwa Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  16. ↑ "Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". Women's National Basketball Association. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  17. ↑ "New York Liberty's Betnijah Laney Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". Women's National Basketball Association. November 18, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
  18. ↑ "Indiana Fever's Kelsey Mitchell wins Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". The Indianapolis Star. June 5, 2023. Retrieved August 17, 2023.
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