Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year

Pac-12 Women's Basketball Player of the Year
Awarded for	the most outstanding basketball player in the Pac-12 Conference
Country	United States
First awarded	1987
Currently held by	Kelsey Plum, Washington

The Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Pac-12 Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1986–87 season, the first year in which the league then known as the Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) officially sponsored women's sports.

Currently, two bodies vote for players of the year. The league's head coaches have selected a winner since the award's inception, and media members who cover Pac-12 women's basketball began presenting their own version of the award in the 2009–10 season. As is the case with the corresponding men's award, coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players.

Eight players have won the award more than once, but only one, Candice Wiggins of Stanford, has won three times. Five players have won a major end-of-season national award in the year that they won the conference award. Four of them are from Stanford: Jennifer Azzi claimed the Naismith Award and Wade Trophy in 1990; Kate Starbird won the Naismith Award in 1997; Wiggins earned the Wade Trophy in 2008; and Chiney Ogwumike won the Wooden Award in 2014. The other is Kelsey Plum of Washington, who won all three major awards in 2017.

There have been three shared awards. Starbird and Tanja Kostić of Oregon State tied for the coaches' award in 1996. In 2015, Reshanda Gray of California won the coaches' award and Ruth Hamblin of Oregon State won the media award. The following year, Jamie Weisner of Oregon State won the coaches' award outright and shared the media award with Jillian Alleyne of Oregon.

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