Current:Home > InvestCaitlin Clark set to join exclusive club as WNBA No. 1 overall draft pick. The full list. -Wealth Empowerment Academy
Caitlin Clark set to join exclusive club as WNBA No. 1 overall draft pick. The full list.
View
Date:2025-04-15 08:48:43
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! (2)
Related
- Why we love Bear Pond Books, a ski town bookstore with a French bulldog 'Staff Pup'
- Mayor says Chicago will stop using controversial gunshot detection technology this year
- Here's why you shouldn't have sex this Valentine's Day, according to a sex therapist
- Disneyland cast members announce plans to form a union
- Big Lots store closures could exceed 300 nationwide, discount chain reveals in filing
- Teaching of gender in Georgia private schools would be regulated under revived Senate bill
- Mayor says Chicago will stop using controversial gunshot detection technology this year
- Flight attendants hold picket signs and rallies in protest for new contracts, pay raises
- Everything Simone Biles did at the Paris Olympics was amplified. She thrived in the spotlight
- Watch extended cut of Ben Affleck's popular Dunkin' Super Bowl commercial
Ranking
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Brittany Mahomes Says She’s in “Awe” of Patrick Mahomes After Super Bowl Win
- Man arrested in Jackie Robinson statue theft, Kansas police say
- Some Americans Don’t Have the Ability to Flush Their Toilets. A Federal Program Aimed at Helping Solve That Problem Is Expanding.
- Residents worried after ceiling cracks appear following reroofing works at Jalan Tenaga HDB blocks
- Three officers are shot in Washington, police say. The injuries don’t appear to be life-threatening
- Second new Georgia reactor begins splitting atoms in key step to making electricity
- Tom Sandoval Screams at Lisa Vanderpump During Tense Vanderpump Rules Confrontation
Recommendation
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
Families using re-created voices of gun violence victims to call lawmakers
Tom Ford's Viral Vanilla Sex Perfume Is Anything But, Well, You Know
Open gun carry proposal in South Carolina on the ropes as conservatives fight among themselves
Oklahoma parole board recommends governor spare the life of man on death row
'Will that be separate checks?' The merits of joint vs. separate bank accounts
A's new primary play-by-play voice is Jenny Cavnar, first woman with that job in MLB history
Police arrest man in theft of Jackie Robinson statue, no evidence of a hate crime