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The John R. Wooden Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding men's and women's college basketball players. The national award program consists of the men's and women's Player of the Year awards, the legend of coaching award and recognizes the All-American Teams. The awards given by the Los Angeles Athletic Club are named in honor of the 1932 national collegiate basketball player of the year from Purdue - a Big 10 medal of honor winner who went onto teach and coach men's basketball at the collegiate level - John Wooden. Coach Wooden, whose teams at UCLA won 10 NCAA championships, was the first man to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player and coach. Mr. Wooden was also inducted into the Teachers Hall of Fame. Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 For other uses, see Basketball (disambiguation). ... Los Angeles Athletic Club (LAAC) is an athletic club in Los Angeles, California. ... John Wooden on UCLA sideline with game program John Robert Wooden (born October 14, 1910, in Hall, Indiana) is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player (Class of 1961) and a coach (Class of 1973). ...

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1 Selection process
- 1.1 Men's award
- 1.2 Women's award
2 The trophy
3 High School Player of the Year Award
4 Player of the Year Award winners
- 4.1 Men
- 4.2 Women
5 External links

Selection process

Men's award

Each year, the Award's National Advisory Board, a 26-member panel, selects approximately twenty candidates for Player of the Year and All-American Team honors. The candidates must be full-time students and have a cumulative grade point average of 2.00 or higher throughout their college career. Players who are nominated must have made oustanding contributions to team play, both offensively and defensively, and be model citizens, exhibiting strength of character both on and off the court. The selection ballot is announced prior to the NCAA basketball tournament. The voters consist of 1,000 sportswriters and sportscasters, representing the 50 states. The NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship is held each spring featuring 65 college basketball teams in the United States. ...

The top ten vote getters are selected to the All-American Team, and the results are announced following the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament. The person who receives the most votes is named the Player of the Year, and the winner is announced following the NCAA championship game. The playoff term Elite Eight has been popularized to refer to the final eight teams in the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament, who play in the final game of each of the tournaments four regional brackets. ...

The Player of the Year is awarded a trophy consisting of five bronze figures. The player's school receives a duplicate trophy as well as a scholarship grant. The other top four members of the All-American Team receive an All-American Team trophy, a jacket, and a scholarship grant which goes to their school. Each coach of the top five All-American Team members also receives a jacket. The All-American Team members ranked six through ten receive an All-American Team trophy and a jacket, but their schools do not receive a scholarship.

Women's award

The criteria for the women's Player of the Year award and All-American Team honors are similar to that for the men. For the women's award, the National Advisory Board consists of 12 members, and approximately 15 candidates are selected for the ballot. The voters are 250 sportswriters and sportscasters. In contrast to the men's All-American Team, only five members are selected for the women's team. The Player of the Year receives a trophy, and her school receives a duplicate trophy and a scholarship grant.

The trophy

Wooden Award trophy for college basketball Player of the Year.

The trophy features five bronze figures, each depicting one of the five major skills that John Wooden believed that "total" basketball player must exhibit -- rebounding, passing, shooting, dribbling, and defense. Image File history File links The John R. Wooden Award trophy for college basketball player of the year. ... Image File history File links The John R. Wooden Award trophy for college basketball player of the year. ...

The concept for the trophy originated with Wooden Award Chairman, Richard "Duke" Llewellyn. Work began on the trophy in 1975, and sculptor Don Winton, who had sculpted many top sports awards, was given the task of designing the model of the trophy.

The figures are bronze plated and attached to a pentagonal base plate. The tallest figure is 10 ¼ inches high (26 cm). The trophy's base is 7 ½ inches high (19 cm) and is made from solid walnut. The total height of the trophy is 17 ¾ inches (45 cm), and it weighs 25 pounds (11.3 kg).

High School Player of the Year Award

The John R. Wooden High School Player of the Year awards are given to the most valuable player in each of the five divisions of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section and one Los Angeles City division.

Player of the Year Award winners

Men

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Women

Seimone Augustus (born April 30, 1984) is a womens basketball player for Louisiana State University. ... Memorial Tower. ... Seimone Augustus (born April 30, 1984) is a womens basketball player for Louisiana State University. ... Memorial Tower. ... Alana Beard on the Washington Mystics Alana Monique Beard (born on May 14, 1982 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Womens National Basketball Association (WNBA). ... Duke Chapel Duke University is a private, coeducational, research university located in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Although founded in 1924, Duke traces its roots back to 1838. ...

External links

Official site of the John R. Wooden Award

www.laac.com

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