WCC Player of the Year

List of WCC Player of the Year winners

The West Coast Conference (WCC) has awarded WCC Player of the Year honors every season since 1952-53 (except for 1954). San Francisco‘s Bill Cartwright is the only player to win the award three times (1977-79), though twelve players have won it twice. Gonzaga is the program with the most winners (twenty), followed by Santa Clara (twelve), San Francisco and Pepperdine (eleven each).

The conference, originally formed in 1952, has remained relatively steady in terms of membership and size throughout most its history. Since 1980 when Seattle left the conference, only two major changes have occurred: the addition of BYU in 2011 and the re-joining of Pacific in 2013. All ten member schools – which span across the states of California, Oregon, Utah & Washington – are private institutions with religious affiliations. See also: WCC Coach of the Year

Year Player(s) School(s)
1953 Ken Sears Santa Clara
1954 none none
1955 Ken Sears (2) Santa Clara (2)
1956 Bill Russell San Francisco
1957 Mike Farmer San Francisco (2)
1958 Mike Farmer (2) San Francisco (3)
Leroy Wright Pacific
1959 LaRoy Doss Saint Mary’s
Leroy Wright (2) Pacific (2)
1960 Jerry Grote Loyola Marymount
1961 Tom Meschery Saint Mary’s (2)
1962 Harry Dinnel Pepperdine
Steve Gray Saint Mary’s (3)
1963 Steve Gray (2) Saint Mary’s (4)
1964 Ollie Johnson San Francisco (4)
1965 Ollie Johnson (2) San Francisco (5)
1966 Keith Swagerty Pacific (3)
1967 Keith Swagerty (2) Pacific (4)
1968 Rick Adelman Loyola Marymount (2)
1969 Dennis Awtrey Santa Clara (3)
1970 Dennis Awtrey (2) Santa Clara (4)
1971 John Gianelli Pacific (5)
1972 Mike Stewart Santa Clara (5)
1973 William “Bird’ Averitt Pepperdine (2)
1974 Frank Oleynick Seattle
1975 Ricky Sobers UNLV
1976 Marcos Leite Pepperdine (3)
1977 Bill Cartwright San Francisco (6)
1978 Bill Cartwright (2) San Francisco (7)
1979 Bill Cartwright (3) San Francisco (8)
1980 Kurt Rambis Santa Clara (6)
1981 Quintin Dailey San Francisco (9)
1982 Quintin Dailey (2) San Francisco (10)
1983 Orlando Phillips Pepperdine (4)
Dane Suttle Pepperdine (5)
1984 John Stockton Gonzaga
1985 Dwayne Polee Pepperdine (6)
1986 Dwayne Polee (2) Pepperdine (7)
1987 Scott Thompson San Diego
1988 Levy Middlebrooks Pepperdine (8)
1989 Hank Gathers Loyola Marymount (3)
1990 Bo Kimble Loyola Marymount (4)
1991 Doug Christie Pepperdine (9)
1992 Doug Christie (2) Pepperdine (10)
1993 Dana Jones Pepperdine (11)
1994 Jeff Brown Gonzaga (2)
1995 Steve Nash Santa Clara (7)
1996 Steve Nash (2) Santa Clara (8)
1997 Marlon Garnett Santa Clara (9)
1998 Bakari Hendrix Gonzaga (3)
1999 Eric Schraeder Saint Mary’s (5)
2000 Kenyon Jones San Francisco (11)
2001 Casey Calvary Gonzaga (4)
2002 Dan Dickau Gonzaga (5)
2003 Blake Stepp Gonzaga (6)
2004 Blake Stepp (2) Gonzaga (7)
2005 Ronny Turiaf Gonzaga (8)
2006 Adam Morrison Gonzaga (9)
2007 Sean Denison Santa Clara (10)
Derek Raivio Gonzaga (10)
2008 Jeremy Pargo Gonzaga (11)
2009 John Bryant Santa Clara (11)
2010 Matt Bouldin Gonzaga (12)
2011 Mickey McConnell Saint Mary’s (6)
2012 Matthew Dellavedova Saint Mary’s (7)
2013 Kelly Olynyk Gonzaga (13)
2014 Tyler Haws BYU
2015 Kevin Pangos Gonzaga (14)
2016 Kyle Collinsworth BYU (2)
2017 Nigel Williams-Goss Gonzaga (15)
2018 Jock Landale Saint Mary’s (8)
2019 Rui Hachimura Gonzaga (16)
2020 Filip Petrusev Gonzaga (17)
2021 Corey Kispert Gonzaga (18)
2022 Drew Timme Gonzaga (19)
2023 Brandin Podziemski Santa Clara (12)
Drew Timme (2) Gonzaga (20)
2024 Augustus Marciulionis Saint Mary’s (9)
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