WNBL Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award
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The Women's National Basketball League Grand Final Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) award given to the best player of the Grand Final. Since 2014, the award has been known as the Rachael Sporn Medal, named after Adelaide's most recognised and successful WNBL player, Rachael Sporn, also a twice winner of the award.[1] Lauren Jackson has won the award four times, while Kelsey Griffin has won the award three times.
Winners
[edit | edit source]| Denotes player inducted into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame | |
| Denotes player who is still active | |
| Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player had been named MVP at that time |
| Team (X) | Denotes the number of times a player from this team had won at that time |
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Multi-time winners
[edit | edit source]| Rank | Player | Team(s) | Awards | Years |
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| 1 | Lauren Jackson | Canberra Capitals | 4 | 2002, 2003, 2006, 2010 |
| 2 | Kelsey Griffin | Bendigo Spirit (2) / Canberra Capitals (1) | 3 | 2013, 2014, 2019 |
| 3 | Shelley Gorman | Nunawading Spectres | 2 | 1986, 1988 |
| Rachael Sporn | Adelaide Lightning | 1994, 1995 | ||
| Kristen Veal | Australian Institute of Sport (1) / Canberra Capitals (1) | 1999, 2000 | ||
| Annie Burgess | Sydney Flames / Panthers | 1993, 2001 | ||
| Leilani Mitchell | Sydney Uni Flames (1) / Southside Flyers (1) | 2017, 2020 |
See also
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Nagy, Boti (March 5, 2014). Rachael Sporn Medal the new award for WNBL grand final Most Valuable Player. The Adelaide Advertiser. Retrieved 2015-01-31.