USBWA Tamika Catchings Award
Presented to the nation's top Division I women's freshman.
Vanderbilt's Blakes wins 2024-25 Tamika Catchings National Freshman Player of the Year Award USC's Watkins wins 2024 Tamika Catchings Award as National Freshman Player of the Year Florida State's Latson wins 2022-23 Tamika Catchings Award DePaul's Morrow wins 2021-22 Tamika Catchings Award USBWA NAMES WOMEN'S FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR TAMIKA CATCHINGS
| ALL-TIME USBWA WOMEN'S NATIONAL FRESHMAN PLAYERS OF THE YEAR | |
| TAMIKA CATCHINGS AWARD | |
| 2023-24 | JuJu Watkins, USC |
| 2022-23 | Ta’Niya Latson, Florida State |
| 2021-22 | Aneesah Morrow, DePaul |
| 2020-21 | Paige Bueckers, UConn; Caitlin Clark, Iowa |
| USBWA NATIONAL FRESHMAN PLAYER OF THE YEAR | |
| 2019-20 | Aliyah Boston, South Carolina |
| 2018-19 | Rhyne Howard, Kentucky |
| 2017-18 | Chennedy Carter, Texas A&M |
| 2016-17 | Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon |
| 2015-16 | Kristine Anigwe, California |
| 2014-15 | Kelsey Mitchell, Ohio State |
| 2013-14 | Diamond DeShields, North Carolina |
| 2012-13 | Jewell Loyd, Notre Dame |
| 2011-12 | Elizabeth Williams, Duke |
| 2010-11 | Odyssey Sims, Baylor |
| 2009-10 | Brittney Griner, Baylor |
| 2008-09 | Shekinna Stricklen, Tennessee |
| 2007-08 | Maya Moore, UConn |
| 2006-07 | Tina Charles, UConn |
| 2005-06 | Courtney Paris, Oklahoma |
| 2004-05 | Tasha Humphrey, Georgia; Candice Wiggins, Stanford |
| 2003-04 | Tiffany Jackson, Texas |
| 2002-03 | Seimone Augustus, LSU |
| 2001-02 | Jacqueline Batteast, Notre Dame |
| 2000-01 | Alana Beard, Duke |
| 1999-00 | LaToya Thomas, Mississippi State |
| 1998-99 | Linda Froehlich, UNLV |
| 1997-98 | Tamika Catchings, Tennessee |
| 1996-97 | Shea Ralph, UConn |
| 1995-96 | Chamique Holdsclaw, Tennessee |
| 1994-95 | Korie Hlede, Duquesne |
| 1993-94 | Leslie Johnson, Purdue |
| 1992-93 | Katie Smith, Ohio State |
| 1991-92 | Niesa Johnson, Alabama |