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The Southeastern Conference (SEC) Women's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the most outstanding player in the Southeastern Conference.
Although the SEC began its women's postseason tournament in 1980, and began official regular-season conference play in the 1982–83 season, a Player of the Year award was not created until the 1986–87 season.
Currently, two bodies vote for Players of the Year. The league's coaches have selected a Player of the Year since the 1986–87 season, and the Associated Press began presenting its version of the award in the 1996–97 season. The two voting bodies have split their honors three times, most recently in 2012–13 when the AP honored A'dia Mathies of Kentucky and the coaches honored Meighan Simmons of Tennessee.
If no special demarcation indicates which award the player won that season, then she had earned all of the awards available for that year.
References
General
List of winners through 2011–12 season:
Winners of major national awards: "Honors: National Players of the Year" (PDF). 2012–13 SEC Women's Basketball Media Guide. Southeastern Conference. p. 111. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
Specific
"Championships: SEC Champions" (PDF). 2012–13 SEC Women's Basketball Media Guide. Southeastern Conference. p. 88. Retrieved May 16, 2013. Women's basketball first came under the auspices of the Southeastern Conference in the 1982-83 season. Games played between SEC teams before that time are not counted in the alltime standings, since there was no uniform number of conference games. The league began sponsoring a tournament in 1980.
^ "Honors: SEC Yearly Player Awards" (PDF). 2012–13 SEC Women's Basketball Media Guide. Southeastern Conference. p. 110. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
^ "All-Time Roster/Statistics" (PDF). 2012–13 Auburn Women's Basketball Almanac. Auburn University Athletics. p. 81. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
^ "History: All-Time Roster" (PDF). Tennessee Lady Volunteers Basketball 2012–13 Record Book. University of Tennessee Athletics. pp. 74–76. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
^ "All-Time Roster/Statistics" (PDF). 2012–13 Auburn Women's Basketball Almanac. Auburn University Athletics. p. 76. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
^ "All-Time Roster/Statistics" (PDF). 2012–13 Auburn Women's Basketball Almanac. Auburn University Athletics. p. 71. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
^ "All-Time Starting Lineups". 2012–13 LSU Women's Basketball Media Guide. LSU Athletics. p. 181. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
Although Parker arrived at Tennessee in 2004, and is listed as having been a team member from 2005–2008 (the Tennessee basketball media guide consistently classifies seasons by the calendar years in which they end), she took a medical redshirt year in 2004–05 due to injury. She was named SEC Freshman of the Year in the 2005–06 season, the year before she was named Player of the Year. "History: Lady Vol Honorees (SEC Freshman of the Year)" (PDF). Tennessee Lady Volunteers Basketball 2012–13 Record Book. University of Tennessee Athletics. p. 81. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
^ "All-Time Roster/Statistics" (PDF). 2012–13 Auburn Women's Basketball Almanac. Auburn University Athletics. p. 68. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
^ "Women's Basketball: 2010–11 Roster". University of Kentucky Athletics Department. Retrieved May 31, 2013. In official publications, Kentucky women's basketball does not distinguish between power forward and small forward.
^ "All-Time Letterwinners" (PDF). 40 Minutes: Kentucky Women's Basketball 2012–2013. University of Kentucky Athletics Department. p. 101. Retrieved May 16, 2013.
^ "2012–13 Rosters". 40 Minutes: Kentucky Women's Basketball 2012–2013. University of Kentucky Athletics Department. Retrieved May 31, 2013. In official publications, Kentucky women's basketball lists "guard" and "point guard" as separate positions.
