Caitlin Clark sweeps awards, wins Wooden Award
The amazing season for the Iowa women’s basketball team came to a close on Sunday in a loss to LSU in the national title game, but awards season continued on Tuesday. Once again, Caitlin Clark picked up another national player of the year award, this time the prestigious John R. Wooden Award.
The Wooden Award is given annually to the most outstanding college player in women’s and men’s basketball. Joining Clark as a finalist for the esteemed award are Aliyah Boston (South Carolina), Cameron Brink (Stanford), Mackenzie Holmes (Indiana) and Maddy Siegrist (Villanova). All five players are invited to Los Angeles for the 47th annual presentation of the Wooden Award.
The Wooden Award Gala will honor the Men’s and Women’s Wooden Award winners and will include the presentation of the Wooden Award All-America teams in Los Angeles on Friday, April 7.
This marks the first time that an Iowa women’s basketball player has ever won the Wooden Award. Former Iowa men’s player, Luka Garza, received the men’s Wooden Award for the 2021 college basketball season.
The most dominant player in women’s college basketball, Clark has already been recognized as the 2023 Naismith Trophy, Wade Trophy, Associated Press, Ann Meyers Drysdale, and The Athletic National Player of the Year, as well as being voted a Big Ten Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. A unanimous first team Associated Press and All-Big Ten honoree, Clark also excels in the classroom being voted the 2023 Academic All-American of the Year.
Clark finished the season averaging 27.8 points per game, 8.6 assists per game, and 7.1 rebounds per game. She became the first player in NCAA Division I women’s basketball history to record 1,055 points and 320 assists in a single season. Both of which shattered Big Ten and school single season records.
