A'ja Wilson

A'ja Wilson

Wilson with the Las Vegas Aces in 2024
No. 22 – Las Vegas Aces
Position	Power forward
League	WNBA
Personal information
Born	(1996-08-08) August 8, 1996 (age 27) Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	197 lb (89 kg)
Career information
High school	Heathwood Hall Episcopal (Columbia, South Carolina)
College	South Carolina (2014–2018)
WNBA draft	2018: 1st round, 1st overall pick
Selected by the Las Vegas Aces
Playing career	2018–present
Career history
2018–present	Las Vegas Aces
2018–2019	Shaanxi Red Wolves
Career highlights and awards
2× WNBA champion (2022, 2023) WNBA Finals MVP (2023) 2× WNBA MVP (2020, 2022) 2× WNBA Defensive Player of the Year (2022, 2023) 2× Best WNBA Player ESPY Award (2023, 2024) Best Female Athlete ESPY Award (2024) 6× WNBA All-Star (2018, 2019, 2021–2024) WNBA Rookie of the Year (2018) WNBA All-Rookie Team (2018) 3× All-WNBA First Team (2020, 2022, 2023) All-WNBA Second Team (2021) 2× WNBA All-Defensive First Team (2022, 2023) WNBA All-Defensive Second Team (2020) 3× WNBA blocks leader (2020, 2022, 2023) Commissioner's Cup champion (2022) 2× USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year (2015, 2022) FIBA Women's World Cup MVP (2022) NCAA champion (2017) NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player (2017) AP Player of the Year (2018) Honda Sports Award (2018) Naismith College Player of the Year (2018) John R. Wooden Award (2018) Wade Trophy (2018) Lisa Leslie Award (2018) 3× Consensus first-team All-American (2016–2018) Third-team All-American - AP (2014) 3× SEC Player of the Year (2016–2018) 2× SEC Defensive Player of the Year (2016, 2018) 4× First-team All-SEC (2015–2018) SEC Freshman of the Year (2015) SEC All-Freshman Team (2015)
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals Women's basketball Representing the  United States Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team World Cup 2018 Spain 2022 Australia

A'ja Riyadh Wilson (/ˈeɪʒə/ AY-zhə; born August 8, 1996)^[1] is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Wilson played for the South Carolina Gamecocks in college, and helped lead the Gamecocks to their first NCAA Women's Basketball Championship in 2017, and won the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player award. In 2018, she won a record third straight SEC Player of the Year award, leading South Carolina to a record fourth straight SEC Tournament Championship, becoming the all-time leading scorer in South Carolina women's basketball history, and was a consensus first-team All-American for the third consecutive season. Wilson swept all National Player of the Year awards (Wade, AP, Honda, USBWA, Wooden, and Naismith) as the best player in Women's College basketball for 2018. In the 2018 WNBA draft, she was drafted first overall by the Aces.

Wilson won her first WNBA MVP in 2020, as well as her first Olympic Gold medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2022, Wilson helped lead the Aces to their first title in franchise history, a feat she repeated in 2023 while earning Finals MVP. On July 7th, 2024, in a matchup against the Dallas Wings, she became the Aces' all time leading scorer in franchise history.^[2] She is also a New York Times best-selling author.