An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who 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 together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889. The 2025 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), ESPN, The Sporting News (TSN), and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) for the 2024–25 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The AP and USBWA chose three teams, TSN and ESPN chose two teams, and the WBCA has one list of 10 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, it was impossible for a consensus women's All-America team to be determined because the AP had been the only body that divided its women's selections into separate teams. The USBWA first named separate 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 19, 2025. The teams are selected by the same 28-member media panel that votes on the AP poll during the season. Of note:
Paige Bueckers became the twelfth player selected as a three-time first-team All-American. Lauren Betts, Bueckers, and Juju Watkins were unanimous first-team selections.
First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Lauren Betts UCLA Georgia Amoore Kentucky Mikayla Blakes Vanderbilt Madison Booker Texas Ta'Niya Latson Florida State Audi Crooks Iowa State Paige Bueckers UConn Olivia Miles Notre Dame Kiki Iriafen USC Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Aneesah Morrow LSU Flau'jae Johnson LSU JuJu Watkins USC Sarah Strong UConn Hailey Van Lith TCU
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.
Raegan Beers, Oklahoma Sonia Citron, Notre Dame Katie Dinnebier, Drake Joyce Edwards, South Carolina Yvonne Ejim, Gonzaga MiLaysia Fulwiley, South Carolina Rori Harmon, Texas Izzy Higginbottom, Arkansas
Aziaha James, NC State Lauren Jensen, Creighton Taylor Jones, Texas Chloe Kitts, South Carolina Ayoka Lee, Kansas State Cotie McMahon, Ohio State Te-Hina Paopao, South Carolina Sedona Prince, TCU
JJ Quinerly, West Virginia Kiki Rice, UCLA Shyanne Sellers, Maryland Serena Sundell, Kansas State Makayla Timpson, Florida State Harmoni Turner, Harvard Mikaylah Williams, LSU
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, 2025.
First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Lauren Betts UCLA Georgia Amoore Kentucky Audi Crooks Iowa State Paige Bueckers UConn Mikayla Blakes Vanderbilt Kiki Iriafen USC Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Madison Booker Texas Flau'jae Johnson LSU Aneesah Morrow LSU Ta'Niya Latson Florida State Sarah Strong UConn JuJu Watkins USC Olivia Miles Notre Dame Hailey Van Lith TCU
The Sporting News (TSN) The Sporting News announced its 10-member team, divided into first and second teams on March 18, 2025.
First team Second teamPlayer SchoolPlayer School Lauren Betts UCLA Georgia Amoore Kentucky Paige Bueckers UConn Mikayla Blakes Vanderbilt Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Madison Booker Texas Aneesah Morrow LSU Ta'Niya Latson Florida State JuJu Watkins USC Olivia Miles Notre Dame
ESPN ESPN.com was the first to announce its 10-member team, divided into first and second teams on March 13, 2025.
First team Second teamPlayer SchoolPlayer School Lauren Betts UCLA Mikayla Blakes Vanderbilt Paige Bueckers UConn Madison Booker Texas Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Ta'Niya Latson Florida State Aneesah Morrow LSU Olivia Miles Notre Dame JuJu Watkins USC Sarah Strong UConn
Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Announced on April 3, 2025.
Player School Georgia Amoore Kentucky Lauren Betts UCLA Madison Booker Texas Paige Bueckers UConn Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame Kiki Iriafen USC Aneesah Morrow LSU Sarah Strong UConn Hailey Van Lith TCU JuJu Watkins USC
Academic All-Americans College Sports Communicators announced its 2025 Academic All-America teams for all NCAA divisions and the NAIA on April 16, 2025. The Division I Academic All-American of the Year is indicated in bold.
+ First Team Player School Class GPA and major Sarah Ashlee Barker Alabama Graduate 3.63 (UG)/3.75 (G), sports management Raegan Beers Oklahoma Sophomore 3.51, multidisciplinary studies Katie Dinnebier Drake Senior 3.74, pharmacy Kiki Iriafen USC Senior 3.52 (UG)/3.54 (G), entrepreneurship & innovation Peyton McDaniel James Madison Junior (redshirt) 3.96 (UG)/4.00 (G), adult education & human resource development Kiki Rice UCLA Junior 3.85, education + Second Team Player School Class GPA and major Kelsey Rees Oregon State Graduate 3.97 (UG)/3.93 (G), bioengineering Morgan Maly Creighton Senior 3.93, exercise science Lauren Ross Purdue Fort Wayne Graduate 4.00 (UG)/4.00 (G), organizational leadership Serena Sundell Kansas State Senior 3.84 (UG)/3.83 (G), business administration Haleigh Timmer South Dakota State Junior 4.00, mathematics (data science specialization) + Third Team Player School Class GPA and major Yvonne Ejim Gonzaga Senior 3.60, human physiology Emily Ryan Iowa State Senior 3.56, kinesiology & health Addy Brown Iowa State Sophomore 3.79, business management Amaya Battle Minnesota Junior 3.73, sociology
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