WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award

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The WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Award is an annual award given to the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) player who had the most outstanding defensive performance during the regular season. The winner of this award will be determined by a vote among sports journalists and television reporters.

Defensive Player of the Year Award winner
season winner team
1997 Teresa Weatherspoon New York Liberty
1998 Teresa Weatherspoon 2 New York Liberty
1999 Yolanda Griffith Sacramento Monarchs
2000 Sheryl Swoopes Houston Comets
2001 Debbie Black Miami Sol
2002 Sheryl Swoopes 2 Houston Comets
2003 Sheryl Swoopes 3 Houston Comets
2004 Lisa Leslie Los Angeles Sparks
2005 Tamika catchings Indiana Fever
2006 Tamika Catchings 2 Indiana Fever
2007 Lauren Jackson Seattle Storm
2008 Lisa Leslie 2 Los Angeles Sparks
2009 Tamika Catchings 3 , Indiana Fever
2010 Tamika Catchings 4 Indiana Fever
2011 Sylvia Fowles Chicago Sky
2012 Tamika Catchings 5 Indiana Fever
2013 Sylvia Fowles 2 Chicago Sky
2014 Brittney Griner Phoenix Mercury
2015 Brittney Griner 2 Phoenix Mercury
2016 Sylvia Fowles 3 Minnesota Lynx
2017 Alana Beard Los Angeles Sparks
2018 Alana Beard 2 Los Angeles Sparks
2019 Natasha Howard Seattle Storm

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.wnba.com Indiana's Tamika Catchings Wins 2005 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Tampax
  2. ↑ www.wnba.com Seattle's Lauren Jackson Named 2007 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year
  3. ↑ www.wnba.com Los Angeles' Lisa Leslie Named 2008 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year
  4. ↑ a b www.wnba.com Indiana Fever's Tamika Catchings Named 2010 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Kia Motors
  5. ↑ www.wnba.com Sylvia Fowles Named 2013 WNBA Defensive Player of Year
  6. ↑ NN: Record-Setting Griner Named 2014 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year Presented by Samsung. ( Memento of December 14, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Archived from the Women's National Basketball Association website; New York City, NY, August 22, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ www.wnba.com Mercury's Brittney Griner Named 2015 WNBA Defensive Player Of The Year Presented By Samsung
  8. ↑ www.wnba.com Minnesota's Sylvia Fowles Named 2016 WNBA Defensive Player of Year presented by Samsung
  9. ↑ www.wnba.com Los Angeles' Alana Beard Named 2017 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year
  10. ↑ Sparks' Alana Beard Named 2018 Defensive Player Of The Year. WNBA, August 30, 2018, accessed August 30, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Seattle's Natasha Howard Named 2019 WNBA Defensive Player Of The Year. WNBA, September 11, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 .