Current:Home > reviewsCaitlin Clark set to join exclusive club as WNBA No. 1 overall draft pick. The full list. -Thrive Success Strategies
Caitlin Clark set to join exclusive club as WNBA No. 1 overall draft pick. The full list.
View
Date:2025-04-13 01:14:57
Caitlin Clark is set to reach another milestone.
After sweeping every major national player of the year award in women's college basketball for the second year in a row and rewriting the NCAA record books in multiple categories, the Iowa star is about to embark on the next step of her remarkable career.
Clark will officially enter the professional ranks Monday night at the 2024 WNBA draft, and she will join an exclusive club. She is expected to be the first name announced when the Indiana Fever select her with the top pick, becoming the 28th overall No. 1 draft pick in WNBA history.
Clark will join an impressive list that begins in 1997 when Hall of Famer Tina Thompson was taken with the first pick in the league's first draft and ends — until Clark's name is added — with last season's WNBA rookie of the year and her soon-to-be teammate in Indiana, Aliyah Boston.
Who else is in the No. 1 draft club? Scroll our gallery and view the list below.
WNBA No. 1 overall draft picks by year
Since 1997; with college or country, if international player, in parentheses
- 2023: Indiana Fever | Aliyah Boston (South Carolina)
- 2022: Atlanta Dream | Rhyne Howard (Kentucky)
- 2021: Dallas Wings | Charli Collier (Texas)
- 2020: New York Liberty | Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon)
- 2019: Las Vegas Aces | Jackie Young (Notre Dame)
- 2018: Las Vegas Aces | A’ja Wilson (South Carolina)
- 2017: San Antonio Stars | Kelsey Plum (Washington)
- 2016: Seattle Storm | Breanna Stewart (Connecticut)
- 2015: Seattle Storm | Jewell Loyd (Notre Dame)
- 2014: Connecticut Sun | Chiney Ogwumike (Stanford)
- 2013: Phoenix Mercury | Brittney Griner (Baylor)
- 2012: Los Angeles Sparks | Nneka Ogwumike (Stanford)
- 2011: Minnesota Lynx | Maya Moore (Connecticut)
- 2010: Connecticut Sun | Tina Charles (Connecticut)
- 2009: Atlanta Dream | Angel McCoughtry (Louisville)
- 2008: Los Angeles Sparks | Candace Parker (Tennessee)
- 2007: Phoenix Mercury | Lindsey Harding (Duke)
- 2006: Minnesota Lynx | Seimone Augustus (LSU)
- 2005: Charlotte Sting | Janel McCarville (Minnesota)
- 2004: Phoenix Mercury | Diana Taurasi (Connecticut)
- 2003: Cleveland Rockets | LaToya Thomas (Mississippi State)
- 2002: Seattle Storm | Sue Bird (Connecticut)
- 2001: Seattle Storm | Lauren Jackson (Australia)
- 2000: Cleveland Rockers | Ann Wauters (Belgium)
- 1999: Washington Mystics | Chamique Holdsclaw (Tennessee)
- 1998: Utah Starzz | Margo Dydek (Poland)
- 1997: Houston Comets | Tina Thompson (Southern California)
veryGood! (1)
Related
- Federal appeals court upholds $14.25 million fine against Exxon for pollution in Texas
- Mariska Hargitay, 'Law & Order: SVU' stars celebrate 25th anniversary milestone in NYC
- Gangs in Haiti have attacked a community for 4 days. Residents fear that the violence could spread
- US applications for jobless benefits fall to lowest level since September 2022
- IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
- Northern Ireland sees biggest strike in years as workers walk out over pay and political deadlock
- Judge denies Trump’s request to hold Jack Smith in contempt in federal 2020 election case
- Asa Hutchinson's anti-Trump presidential campaign mocked by DNC
- Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charged with torture
- As Gaza's communication blackout grinds on, some fear it is imperiling lives
Ranking
- The 401(k) millionaires club keeps growing. We'll tell you how to join.
- Justice Department report details the how the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, unfolded
- Brittany Mahomes Trolls Patrick Mahomes For Wearing Crocs to Chiefs Photo Shoot
- Court upholds block on Texas law requiring school book vendors to provide sexual content ratings
- What were Tom Selleck's juicy final 'Blue Bloods' words in Reagan family
- 15 students and 1 teacher drown when a boat capsizes in a lake in western India
- Issey Miyake displays canvas of colors at Paris Fashion Week
- Northern Ireland sees biggest strike in years as workers walk out over pay and political deadlock
Recommendation
Jorge Ramos reveals his final day with 'Noticiero Univision': 'It's been quite a ride'
Reviewers Say These 21 Genius Products Actually Helped Them Solve Gross Problems
Columnist accusing Trump of sex assault faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom
Christian Pulisic named US Soccer Male Player of Year. Ted Lasso actor helps break news
What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?
Blazers' Deandre Ayton unable to make it to game vs. Nets due to ice
White House to meet with families of Americans taken hostage by Hamas
Olympian Shawn Barber Dead at 29