University of Washington Athletics

SEATTLE -- Senior guard Kelsey Plum of the University of Washington women's basketball team is one of four finalists for the 2017 Dawn Staley Award, the Phoenix Club of Philadelphia announced on Friday (March 3). The Dawn Staley Award annually recognizes the nation's best guard in NCAA Division I women's basketball.

Plum joins Ohio State junior Kelsey Mitchell, Syracuse senior Alexis Peterson and Connecticut sophomore Katie Lou Samuelson as the four finalists for the prestigious award. The winner will be announced during the Final Four weekend in April.
 
Plum has continued to put together an impressive list of accolades this season. She has been named a finalist for the Nancy Lieberman Award, on the midseason watch lists for the Naismith Trophy, Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, and Wooden Award, and recognized on the Wade Trophy watch list.

Plum was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year after putting together one of the finest seasons in the history of women's college basketball. In the final regular season game of her career, Plum scored a Pac-12 record 57 points to become the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history with 3,397 career points.

The Poway, Calif. native leads the nation in scoring at 31.6 points per game and is doing it at an efficient rate, shooting 53.7 from the field, 43.6 from three-point range and 88.7 from the foul line. She also leads the team with 4.8 assists per game.

Just 11 games into her senior season, she broke the all-time Pac-12 scoring record and she later became the first player in conference history, male or female, to surpass 3,000 career points, becoming the 12th player in NCAA history to do so.

In the final regular season game, Plum also broke the Pac-12 and program record for most points scored in a season. She is 84 points shy of breaking the NCAA record for most points in a season set by Jackie Stiles (1,062).

Plum's 103 made three-pointers is third-most in the NCAA and earlier this season, she became Washington's all-time career three-point leader. She is just the second player in Pac-12 history to eclipse 300 in her career.