# Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award

Women's National Basketball Association awards and honors :
Championship :
WNBA Finals :
Commissioner's Cup Champions :
WNBA Commissioner's Cup :
Individual awards :
All-Star Game MVP
Rookie of the Year
Defensive Player of the Year
Coach of the Year
Finals MVP
Dawn Staley Leadership
Most Valuable Player
Most Improved Player
Peak Performers
Sixth Player of the Year
Kim Perrot Sportsmanship
Basketball Executive of the Year :
Honors :
All-WNBA Team
Top 15 Players
Top 25 Players
All-Rookie Team
WNBA All-Decade Team
Top 20 Players
All-Defensive Team :
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The Kim Perrot Sportsmanship Award is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given since the league's inaugural season, to the player who most "exemplifies the ideals of sportsmanship on the court—ethical behavior, fair play and integrity." This is the same criterion used by the analogous NBA Sportsmanship Award, given by the NBA since its 1995–96 season.
Every year, each of the WNBA teams nominates one of its players to compete for this award. From these nominees, a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters vote for first and second place winners of this award. First place selections receive two votes, while second place selections receive one. The player with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.
Since the 2000 WNBA season, the award is named for the late Kim Perrot, who helped guide the Houston Comets to their first two WNBA championships before she died in August, 1999, after suffering from cancer for seven months.
Nneka Ogwumike, Sue Bird and Tamika Catchings have won the award the most times, with 3 selections.

## Winners

| | Denotes player who is still active in the WNBA |
| | Inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame |
| | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
| Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has won |
| Team (X) | Denotes the number of times a player from this team has won |
| Season | Player | Position | Nationality | Team |
| 1997 | Zheng Haixia | Center | China | Los Angeles Sparks |
| 1998 | Suzie McConnell Serio | Guard | United States | Cleveland Rockers |
| 1999 | Dawn Staley | Guard | United States | Charlotte Sting |
| 2000 | Suzie McConnell Serio (2) | Guard | United States | Cleveland Rockers (2) |
| 2001 | Sue Wicks | Forward | United States | New York Liberty |
| 2002 | Jennifer Gillom | Forward / Center | United States | Phoenix Mercury |
| 2003 | Edna Campbell | Guard | United States | Sacramento Monarchs |
| 2004 | Teresa Edwards | Guard | United States | Minnesota Lynx |
| 2005 | Taj McWilliams-Franklin | Forward / Center | United States | Connecticut Sun |
| 2006 | Dawn Staley (2) | Guard | United States | Houston Comets |
| 2007 | Tully Bevilaqua | Guard | Australia | Indiana Fever |
| 2008 | Vickie Johnson | Guard / Forward | United States | San Antonio Silver Stars |
| 2009 | Kara Lawson | Guard | United States | Sacramento Monarchs (2) |
| 2010 | Tamika Catchings | Forward | United States | Indiana Fever (2) |
| 2011 | Sue Bird | Guard | United States | Seattle Storm |
| 2011 | Ruth Riley | Center | United States | San Antonio Silver Stars (2) |
| 2012 | Kara Lawson (2) | Guard | United States | Connecticut Sun (2) |
| 2013 | Swin Cash | Forward | United States | Chicago Sky |
| 2013 | Tamika Catchings (2) | Forward | United States | Indiana Fever (3) |
| 2014 | Becky Hammon | Guard | Russia | San Antonio Stars (3) |
| 2015 | DeLisha Milton-Jones | Forward | United States | Atlanta Dream |
| 2016 | Tamika Catchings (3) | Forward | United States | Indiana Fever (4) |
| 2017 | Sue Bird (2) | Guard | United States | Seattle Storm (2) |
| 2018 | Sue Bird (3) | Guard | United States | Seattle Storm (3) |
| 2019 | Nneka Ogwumike | Forward | United States | Los Angeles Sparks (2) |
| 2020 | Nneka Ogwumike (2) | Forward | United States | Los Angeles Sparks (3) |
| 2021 | Nneka Ogwumike (3) | Forward | United States | Los Angeles Sparks (4) |
| 2022 | Sylvia Fowles | Center | United States | Minnesota Lynx (2) |
| 2023 | Elizabeth Williams | Center | United States | Chicago Sky (2) |
| 2024 | Dearica Hamby | Forward | United States | Los Angeles Sparks (5) |