STEWART Breanna

General
COLLEGE GREAT
She played four seasons for the University of Connecticut, winning four consecutive NCAA titles from 2013 to 2016 before claiming an Olympic gold medal in 2016. No other women's player had won more than two consecutive Most Outstanding Player awards in the Final Four before she claimed the award four times in a row. She finished her college career with a 151-5 win/loss record, and as the only women's college player in history to reach 300 career blocks and 300 career assists. Her national college titles and numerous national awards and honours mean she has been labelled one of college basketball's greatest all-time players. (nytimes.com, 09 Sep 2016; ncaa.com, 01 Jan 2016; seattletimes.com, 01 Jan 2016)

TOP PICK
She was chosen by Seattle Storm as the first overall pick in the 2016 WNBA Draft. (usab.com, 2016)

OTHER ACTIVITIES
She took part in a rally against anti-immigration laws in 2016, and has publicly supported movements such as Black Lives Matter, gender equality and LGBTQ inclusion. She used her Best Female Athlete acceptance speech at the 2016 Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award ceremony to call for more media attention for women's basketball. "I wanted [this speech] to be meaningful. I've done a lot of speeches in my life and thanked my family and friends, but I wanted to talk about something bigger than that and kind of make a point. We're fighting for equality ourselves within women's basketball, when you see someone else fighting for that same equality, you want to be a part of it. It's silly not to." (espn.co.uk, 27 Jun 2017)

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio she was the youngest women's basketball player on a US team since the 1988 Games. (nbcolympics.com, 01 Jan 2016; SportsDeskOnline, 2019)

While playing for University of Connecticut she became the first women's basketball player to win four NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player [MOP] awards. (nbcolympics.com, 01 Jan 2016; nbcsports.com, 29 Feb 2016; usab.com, 12 Dec 2018)