List of Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

The annually-awarded Women's Basketball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is the most outstanding singular female college basketball athlete selected for the Academic All-America Teams in a given year. Selected based on excellence in both classroom achievement and athletic competition performance by the College Sports Communicators (CSC, known before the 2022–23 school year as College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA), the Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. From 1996 through 2011, one winner each was chosen from both the College and University Divisions for all twelve Academic All-America teams, including football. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. The University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.

Beginning in 2012, CoSIDA revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I". Since then, NCAA Divisions II and III have had their own separate All-Americans. The College Division consisted only of non-NCAA institutions through the 2017–18 school year, after which it was effectively replaced by an NAIA division restricted to members of that governing body.

Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. The districts are as follows: – District 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT), District 2 (DC, DE, KY, MD, NJ, PA, WV), District 3 (NC, TN, VA), District 4 (AL, FL, GA, PR, SC), District 5 (IL, IN, MI, OH), District 6 (AR, IA, LA, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, SD, WI, WY), – District 7 (CO, ID, KS, NE, NM, NV, OK, TX), District 8 (AK, AZ, CA, HI, OR, UT, WA, Canada). First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball and men's and women's at-large teams) have one Academic All-American of the Year for each division. One of these twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-American of the year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Members of the Year for each division. The most recent women's basketball player to have earned the all-sports honor is 2023 Division I recipient Caitlin Clark of Iowa.

History
, Stanford University has had the most women's basketball Academic All-America honorees (17 and one more than Ashland University), but only Chiney Ogwumike has been recognized with this award.

As of July 2024, 11 of the Women's Basketball Academic All-America of the Year winners have gone on to win the overall Academic All-America of the Year. The six Division I overall winners have been Rebecca Lobo (1995 before there were separate awards by level), Ruth Riley (2001), Stacey Dales-Schuman (2002), Maya Moore (2011), Aliyah Boston (2022) and Caitlin Clark (2023). Other overall winners have included Kari Daugherty (Division II, 2013), Lauren Battista (Division II, 2014), and Grace Barry (NAIA, 2020) as well as Julie Roe (1997) and Emily Bloss (2001) before the College Division was split.

As of July 2024, the have been a total 11 repeat winners of this award, including 7 times in Division I: Michelle Flamoe (1988 & 1989), Karen Jennings (1992 & 1993), Moore (2010 & 2011), Elena Delle Donne (2012 & 2013), Ally Disterhoft (2016 & 2017), Boston (2021 & 2022), Clark (2023 & 2024). In the college division Emilie Hanson (1994 & 1995) and Lindsey Dietz (2005 & 2006) repeated as did Jenna Taylor (Division III, 2021 & 2022). 2024 NAIA winner, Grace Beyer, was the first women's basketball three-time winner.

Tables of winners
Names in bold indicate winners of the all-sports Academic All-America award. All winners are American unless indicated otherwise.