Current:Home > ContactCaitlin Clark set to join exclusive club as WNBA No. 1 overall draft pick. The full list. -Capital Dream Guides
Caitlin Clark set to join exclusive club as WNBA No. 1 overall draft pick. The full list.
View
Date:2025-04-27 15:09:29
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! (69413)
Related
- Meet first time Grammy nominee Charley Crockett
- Why Jon Bon Jovi Won’t Be Performing at His Son Jake’s Wedding to Millie Bobby Brown
- Alabama school band director says he was ‘just doing my job’ before police arrested him
- Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood to be prosecution witness in Georgia election case
- Person accused of accosting Rep. Nancy Mace at Capitol pleads not guilty to assault charge
- Minnesota woman made $117,000 running illegal Facebook lottery, police say
- The Games Begin in Dramatic Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Trailer
- Oklahoma man made hundreds of ghost guns for Mexican cartel
- Tree trimmer dead after getting caught in wood chipper at Florida town hall
- Judge dismisses two suits filed by man whose work as informant inspired the movie ‘White Boy Rick’
Ranking
- Dick Vitale announces he is cancer free: 'Santa Claus came early'
- Boston College suspends swimming and diving program after hazing incident
- David Beckham Netflix docuseries gets release date and trailer amid Inter Miami CF hype
- 19-year-old daredevil saved after stunt left him dangling from California's tallest bridge
- 'Survivor' 47 finale, part one recap: 2 players were sent home. Who's left in the game?
- In Kentucky governor’s race, Democrat presses the case on GOP challenger’s abortion stance
- FDA declines to approve Neffy epinephrine nasal spray for severe allergic reactions
- Alex Murdaugh plans to do something he hasn’t yet done in court — plead guilty
Recommendation
California DMV apologizes for license plate that some say mocks Oct. 7 attack on Israel
A small venture capital player becomes a symbol in the fight over corporate diversity policies
Beverly Hills bans use of shaving cream, silly string on Halloween night
Texas teacher fired over Anne Frank graphic novel. The complaint? Sexual content
Elon Musk's skyrocketing net worth: He's the first person with over $400 billion
Ukraine, Russia and the tense U.N. encounter that almost happened — but didn’t
Asian Games offer a few sports you may not recognize. How about kabaddi, sepaktakraw, and wushu?
Crash involving school van kills teen and injures 5 others, including 2 adults