NEW YORK – Former Gonzaga standout Courtney Vandersloot was selected to the All-WNBA First Team for the second time in as many seasons, the only WNBA player to be selected to the first team each of the last two seasons. The all-league team was officially announced by the WNBA Sunday afternoon.
 
This is the second consecutive first team honor for the Kent, Wash., native and second overall of her career. Vandersloot finished fourth in the league in MVP voting and was also selected as the 2020 WNBA Peak Performer for assists average.
 
This season, Vandersloot became the first player in WNBA history to average double-figure assists during the regular season, dishing out 220 assists in the shortened 22-game season to average 10.0 assists per game. She also set the new WNBA single-game assists record, recording 18 assists in a victory over Indiana on Aug. 31. The Chicago Sky veteran averaged 13.6 points and 3.5 rebounds per game to go along with her 10.0 assists, converting 49.1 percent of her field goal attempts and 39.5 percent of her three-point field goal attempts. She recorded double-figure assists 12 times on the season with three games of at least 15 assists.
 
Vandersloot led the Chicago Sky back to the playoffs this season, but the Sky fell to the Connecticut Sun 94-81 in a single-elimination first-round game on Sept. 15.
 
Vandersloot has collected numerous accolades over her 10-year WNBA career. She's a two-time All-WNBA First Team Performer, two-time All-WNBA Second Team selection, two-time WNBA All-Star and five-time WNBA Peak Performer award recipient. She owns the WNBA records for single-season assists (300), single-season assists average (10.0) and single-game assists (18). Currently, Vandersloot owns the top-four single-season averages for assists, and this season she averaged over 4.0 assists per game more than the next closest player (Indiana Fever guard Julie Allemand averages 5.8 per game).
 
In the 2011 WNBA Draft, she became the first Bulldog player in school history to be drafted in the first round of the WNBA, as she was the third overall pick, taken by the Chicago Sky.
 
Vandersloot, the three-time West Coast Conference Player of the Year, was also named to the Associated Press All-America Team second team and State Farm Coaches' All-America Basketball team, USBWA All-America, the Nancy Lieberman Award winner as the top point guard in the nation, and is the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award winner.
 
2020 All-WNBA
 
First Team: First Team — A'ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Candace Parker, Courtney Vandersloot, Arike Ogunbowale
Second Team — DeWanna Bonner, Napheesa Collier, Diana Taurasi, Skylar Diggins-Smith, Alyssa Thomas
Player of the Year: A'ja Wilson
Most Improved Player of the Year: Betnijah Laney, Atlanta
Defensive Player of the Year: Candace Parker, Los Angeles
Rookie of the Year: Crystal Dangerfield, Minnesota
Sixth Woman of the Year: Dearica Hamby, Las Vegas