An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—which in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who national media members select. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889. The 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), The Sporting News (TSN), and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The AP, TSN and USBWA choose three teams, while WBCA lists ten honorees.
A consensus All-America team in women's basketball has never been organized. This differs from the practice in men's basketball, in which the NCAA uses a combination of selections by AP, USBWA, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and Sporting News to determine a consensus All-America team. The selection of a consensus All-America men's basketball team is possible because all four organizations select at least a first and second team, with only the USBWA not selecting a third team.
Before the 2017–18 season, a consensus women's All-America team couldn't be determined because the AP had been the only body that divided its women's selections into separate teams. The USBWA first named different teams in 2017–18. The women's counterpart to the NABC, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), continues the USBWA's former practice of selecting a single 10-member (plus ties) team. Before the 2023–24 season, Sporting News did not select an All-America team in women's basketball.
By selector Associated Press (AP) Announced on March 20, 2024. The teams are selected by the same 28-member media panel that votes on the AP poll during the season. Of note: Caitlin Clark became the eleventh player selected as a three-time first-team All-American. Clark was a unanimous first-team selection. First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Cameron Brink Stanford Madison Booker Texas Georgia Amoore Virginia Tech Paige Bueckers UConn Kamilla Cardoso South Carolina Raegan Beers Oregon State Caitlin Clark Iowa Elizabeth Kitley Virginia Tech Dyaisha Fair Syracuse Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Angel Reese LSU Mackenzie Holmes Indiana JuJu Watkins USC Jacy Sheldon Ohio State Alissa Pili Utah
AP Honorable Mention Honorable mention selections are those who did not make one of the first three teams, but received at least one vote from the media panel.
Lauren Betts, UCLA Audi Crooks, Iowa State Aaliyah Edwards, UConn Yvonne Ejim, Gonzaga Lauren Gustin, BYU McKenna Hofschild, Colorado State Abbey Hsu, Columbia Kiki Iriafen, Stanford
Rickea Jackson, Tennessee Ta'Niya Latson, Florida State Ayoka Lee, Kansas State Cotie McMahon, Ohio State Aneesah Morrow, LSU Nika Mühl, UConn Lucy Olsen, Villanova Charisma Osborne, UCLA
Te-Hina Paopao, South Carolina JJ Quinerly, West Virginia Saniya Rivers, North Carolina State Kiki Rice, UCLA Jaylyn Sherrod, Colorado Skylar Vann, Oklahoma
United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) The USBWA announced its 15-member team, divided into first, second, and third teams, plus honorable mention selections, on March 19, 2024. Vote totals were not released.
First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Cameron Brink Stanford Aaliyah Edwards UConn Georgia Amoore Virginia Tech Paige Bueckers UConn Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Madison Booker Texas Kamilla Cardoso South Carolina Mackenzie Holmes Indiana Dyaisha Fair Syracuse Caitlin Clark Iowa Elizabeth Kitley Virginia Tech Alissa Pili Utah Angel Reese LSU Te-Hina Paopao South Carolina Jacy Sheldon Ohio StateJuJu Watkins USC
USBWA Honorable Mention
Raegan Beers, Oregon State Lauren Betts, UCLA Rickea Jackson, Tennessee
Cotie McMahon, Ohio State Aneesah Morrow, LSU
The Sporting News (TSN) The Sporting News announced its 15-member team, divided into first, second and third teams, on March 19, 2024.
First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Cameron Brink Stanford Raegan Beers Oregon State Madison Booker Texas Caitlin Clark Iowa Paige Bueckers UConn Aaliyah Edwards UConn Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Kamilla Cardoso South Carolina Dyaisha Fair Syracuse Liz Kitley Virginia Tech Angel Reese LSU Ayoka Lee Kansas State JuJu Watkins USC Jacy Sheldon Ohio State Alissa Pili Utah
Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Announced on April 4, 2024. Player School Madison Booker Texas Cameron Brink Stanford Paige Bueckers UConn Kamilla Cardoso South Carolina Caitlin Clark Iowa Aaliyah Edwards UConn Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Elizabeth Kitley Virginia Tech Angel Reese LSU JuJu Watkins USC
Academic All-Americans College Sports Communicators (known before the 2022–23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America) will announce its 2024 Academic All-America team on April 17, 2024. The Division I Academic All-American of the Year is indicated in bold.
+ First Team Player School Class GPA and major Georgia Amoore Virginia Tech Senior 3.56, Sociology Paige Bueckers UConn Junior 3.50, Human Development & Family Sciences Caitlin Clark Iowa Senior 3.64, Marketing Mackenzie Holmes Indiana Graduate 3.62/3.64, Human Development & Family Studies (U) Elizabeth Kitley Virginia Tech Graduate 3.90/4.0, Curriculum & Instruction Ayoka Lee Kansas State Senior 3.90/3.85, Masters in Couple & Family Counseling + Second Team Player School Class GPA and major Raegan Beers Oregon State Sophomore 3.55, Education Kaitlyn Chen Princeton Senior 3.54, Medical Anthropology Yvonne Ejim Gonzaga Senior 3.55, Human Physiology Hannah Jump Stanford Graduate 3.76, Psychology + Third Team Player School Class GPA and major Frida Formann Colorado Senior 4.0, Environmental Studies Shay Holle Texas Senior 3.54/4.0, Finance Morgan Maly Creighton Senior 3.95, Exercise Science Irene Murua Detroit Mercy Senior 4.0, Mathematics Rachael Rose Wofford Junior 3.86, Psychology Amy Velasco Bowling Green Junior 4.0, Physical Education and Health Education
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