Horston Named To Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Top 10

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association announced Tuesday the 10 watch list candidates for the 2022 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, and Tennessee's Jordan Horston is among the players making the cut.

Named after the first player, male or female, named to an All-America Team in four straight college seasons, the annual award in its fifth year recognizes the top shooting guard in women's NCAA Division I college basketball. A national committee of top college basketball personnel determined the watch list of 20 candidates in November, which has now been narrowed to just 10.

Horston, a 6-foot-2 junior from Columbus, Ohio, is averaging 16.2 points, 9.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.0 blocks in 20 games played this season, leading the team in all of those categories except blocks and ranking second in that one. The dynamic guard has a team-leading 10 double-doubles and has paced her squad in scoring on 13 occasions, in assists 12 times and in rebounding during 10 games.

In seven contests vs. ranked opponents this season, Horston is putting up 20.7 ppg., 10.7 rpg. and 4.0 apg. with four double-doubles. She has played a key role in the Lady Vols standing at 19-4 overall and 8-2 in SEC play despite injuries that knocked two key players out for the season and caused another to miss 12 games.

College basketball fans are encouraged to participate in Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies in each of the three rounds. In late February, the watch list of 10 players for the 2022 Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year Award will be narrowed to five. In March those finalists will be presented to Ms. Meyers Drysdale and the Hall of Fame's selection committee where a winner will be selected.

The winner of the 2022 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award will be presented on a to-be-determined date, along with the other four members of the Women's Starting Five. Additional awards being presented include the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award, the Cheryl Miller Small Forward Award, the Katrina McClain Power Forward Award and the Lisa Leslie Center Award, in addition to the Men's Starting Five.

For more information on the 2022 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award and the latest updates, log onto www.hoophallawards.com and follow @hoophall and #MeyersAward on Twitter and Instagram. Starting Five Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies will go live on Friday, February 11.

2022 Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year Award Candidates*

Sonya Morris / DePaul
Kierstan Bell / Florida Gulf Coast
Charisma Osborne / UCLA
Christyn Williams / UConn
Kianna Smith / Louisville
Leigha Brown / Michigan
Taylor Mikesell / Ohio State
Taylor Robertson / Oklahoma
Jordan Horston / Tennessee
Charlisse Leger-Walker / Washington State

*Players can play their way onto and off the list at any point in the 2021-22 season

About Ann Meyers Drysdale:
Ann Meyers Drysdale's career escalated women's basketball to a new level. She was the first high school player to make the United States national team and the first woman to receive a full four-year athletic scholarship to UCLA. Her high-octane approach translated into wins and awards and she finished her impressive career at UCLA owning 12 of 13 school records including becoming the first player to record a quadruple double in UCLA history.

A supremely talented all-around player with natural basketball ability and instincts, Meyers Drysdale was the first player, male or female, named to an All-America team in four straight seasons and was named Player of the Year during her senior year. While still at UCLA, she started on the first women's Olympic team in 1976.

After an All-America career, she became the first player drafted into the Women's Basketball League, earning WBL MVP and making history by becoming the first female player to tryout with an NBA team, the Indiana Pacers, with whom she signed a free agent contract. Meyers Drysdale pushed the envelope in women's basketball, bringing a feel and sense for the game that few players ever exhibited. She was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. In 2007, she was the 1st American Women to be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame. In 2012, Meyers Drysdale became one of the first annual naming honorees on the women's side of the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) with the organization's National Women's Player of the Year.

Since retiring from professional play, she has had a very successful career as an NBA and WNBA executive, as well as a color commentator for the NBA, WNBA and the Olympic Games in 1984, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016. In 2005 she received the ASAMA Ronald Reagan Media Award and in 2019, she was inducted into the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the Pac-12 Hall of Honor.

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