Illinois Girls Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year Winners
Gatorade has named its Illinois Girls Player of the Year winners since the 1985-86 season. It has been awarded 35 times in total to 30 individual athletes.
Two athletes (Brea Beal and Candace Parker) were three-time award winners, and Tricia Liston won the award twice.
Whitney Young has had the most award winners as a team with five.
Year | Player | High School | College |
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2021 | Greta Kampschroeder | Naperville North | Oregon State |
2020 | Angela Dugalic | Maine West | Oregon |
2019 | Brea Beal | Rock Island | South Carolina |
2018 | Brea Beal | Rock Island | South Carolina |
2017 | Brea Beal | Rock Island | South Carolina |
2016 | Kiara Lewis | Whitney Young | Ohio State, Syracuse |
2015 | Haley Gorecki | Fremd | Duke |
2014 | Tyra Buss | Mount Carmel | Indiana |
2013 | Jackie Kemph | Rolling Meadows | Saint Louis |
2012 | Morgan Tuck | Bolingbrook | UConn |
2011 | Ariel Massengale | Bolingbrook | Tennessee |
2010 | Tricia Liston | Fenwick | Duke |
2009 | Tricia Liston | Fenwick | Duke |
2008 | Sarah Boothe | Warren | Stanford |
2007 | Brittany Johnson | Olney East Richland | Ohio State |
2006 | Amanda Thompson | Whitney Young | Oklahoma |
2005 | Lindsay Schrader | Bartlett | Notre Dame |
2004 | Candace Parker | Naperville Central | Tennessee |
2003 | Candace Parker | Naperville Central | Tennessee |
2002 | Candace Parker | Naperville Central | Tennessee |
2001 | Cappie Pondexter | Marshall | Rutgers |
2000 | Amina Yanni | Harlem | Illinois |
1999 | Olga Gvozdenovic | Loyola | Duke |
1998 | Dawn Vana | Maine West | Illinois |
1997 | Natasha Pointer | Whitney Young | Rutgers |
1996 | Tauja Catchings | Stevenson | Illinois |
1995 | Dominique Canty | Whitney Young | Alabama |
1994 | Tangela Smith | George Washington | Iowa |
1993 | Angie Sapp | Williamsville | Illinois College |
1992 | Michele Ratay | Buffalo Grove | Northwestern |
1991 | Jackie Williams | Joliet West | Auburn |
1990 | E.C. Hill | Whitney Young | Northern Illinois |
1989 | LaTonia Foster | Marshall | Iowa |
1988 | Nancy Kennelly | Maine West | Northwestern |
1987 | Micah Bingeman | Manual | Bradley |
1986 | Sheryl Porter | Marshall | Loyola |
See the list of Illinois boys Gatorade Player of the Year winners.