Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award

The Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's 2008 season, that recognizes a player who is an inspiration in her community and reflects Dawn Staley’s leadership, spirit, charitable efforts and love for the game. This is the same criterion used by the analogous NBA Community Assist Award, given by the NBA since its 2001-02 season.

Every year, each of the WNBA teams nominates one of its players to compete for this award. From these nominees, a designated committee vote for the winner and the WNBA donates $10,000 to a charity that the player chooses on their behalf.^[1]

Winners

Year Player Nationality Team 2008 Tamika Catchings[2]  United States Indiana Fever 2009 Tamika Raymond[3]  United States Connecticut Sun 2010 Chamique Holdsclaw[4]  United States San Antonio Silver Stars 2011 Charde Houston[5]  United States Minnesota Lynx 2012 Tina Charles[6]  United States Connecticut Sun 2013 Kara Lawson[7]  United States Connecticut Sun 2014 Elena Delle Donne[8]  United States Chicago Sky 2015 Elena Delle Donne (2) [9]  United States Chicago Sky 2016 Tamika Catchings (2) [10]  United States Indiana Fever 2017 Ivory Latta[11]  United States Washington Mystics 2018 Skylar Diggins-Smith[12]  United States Dallas Wings References ↑ "WNBA Announces Creation of Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". virginiasports.com. virginiasports.com. Retrieved 2006-11-16. ↑ "Catchings Wins Inaugural Dawn Staley Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2008-06-24. ↑ "Tamika Raymond receives leadership award". oursportscentral.com. oursportscentral.com. Retrieved 2009-06-14. ↑ "Chamique Holdsclaw Receives Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2010-07-20. ↑ "Charde Houston Receives Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2011-07-08. ↑ "Tina Charles Receives Community Leader Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. ↑ "Kara Lawson Receives Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2013-05-16. ↑ "Elena Delle Donne Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award for Inspirational Off-Court Efforts". bluehens.com. bluehens.com. Retrieved 2014-06-18. ↑ "Chicago's Elena Delle Donne Earns Second Straight Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2015-09-03. ↑ "Catchings Named Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award Winner". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2016-08-30. ↑ "Washington Mystics' Ivory Latta Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2017-08-25. ↑ "Diggins-Smith Earns Dawn Staley Community Leadership Award". wnba.com. wnba.com. Retrieved 2017-07-19.