The 2025 WNBA Draft will add yet another star college basketball player to the list of first-overall draft picks in the league’s history.
UConn superstar guard Paige Bueckers is basically locked at this point to be drafted first overall by the Dallas Wings, but who are the players who went before her with the first pick?
Since 1997, plenty of star players have joined the league with the first-overall selection and gone onto stellar careers in the WNBA. Just last year, the Indiana Fever drafted Iowa superstar guard Caitlin Clark with the first pick.
As we prepare to add Bueckers to the list, let’s go back and look at all the other first-round WNBA Draft selections.
2020s
2024: Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever
2023: Aliyah Boston, Indiana Fever
2022: Rhyne Howard, Kentucky
2021: Charli Collier, Dallas Wings
2020: Sabrina Ionescu, New York Liberty
2010s
2019: Jackie Young, Las Vegas Aces
2018: A’Ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
2017: Kelsey Plum, San Antonio Stars
2016: Breanna Stewart, Seattle Storm
2015: Jewell Lloyd, Seattle Storm
2014: Chiney Ogwumike, Connecticut Sun
2013: Brittney Griner, Phoenix Sun
2012: Nneka Ogwumike, Los Angeles Sparks
2011: Maya Moore, Minnesota Lynx
2010: Tina Charles, Connecticut Sun
2000s
2009: Angel McCoughtry, Atlanta Dream
2008: Candace Parker, Los Angeles Sparks
2007: Lindsey Harding, Phoenix Mercury
2006: Seimone Augustus, Minnesota Lynx
2005: Janel McCarville, Charlotte Sting
2004: Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Mercury
2003: LaToya Thomas, Cleveland Rockers
2002: Sue Bird, Seattle Storm
2001: Lauren Jackson, Seattle Storm
2000: Ann Wauters, Cleveland Rockers
1990s
1999: Chamique Holdsclaw, Washington Mystics
1998: Margo Dydek, Utah Starzz
1997: Tina Thompson, Houston Comets
1997 (Elite Draft): Dean Head, Utah Starzz
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