Anna Wilson (basketball)

Anna Christine Wilson (born July 12, 1997) is an American former college basketball player for the Stanford Cardinal of the Pac-12 Conference. As a guard, she holds the team record for most games played over a career with 160, the fourth-most in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). At the 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women, she won a gold medal as a part of Team USA. She played three seasons of high school basketball for Collegiate School, where she set the team record for career assists with 246 and had the fifth-most points in team history with 735. Moving to play as a senior for the Bellevue High School Wolverines, her team finished the year with an undefeated season and won the 2016 Class 3A girls state championship. She was named to the McDonald's All-American Game, an all-star girls' basketball game composed of many top-ranked American and Canadian high school basketball graduating seniors.

Anna Wilson
Wilson with Stanford in 2022
Personal information
Born (1997-07-12) July 12, 1997
Richmond, Virginia, US
Listed height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Career information
High school
CollegeStanford (2016–2022)
WNBA draft2022: undrafted
PositionGuard
Number3
Career highlights and awards
  • NCAA champion (2021)
  • Pac-12 Co-Defensive Player of the Year (2021)
  • 2× Pac-12 All-Defensive Team (2021, 2022)
  • McDonald's All-American (2016)
Medals
Women's basketball
Representing the  United States
FIBA Under-17 World Cup
2014 Czech RepublicTeam

At Stanford, Wilson played primarily a bench role until her fifth-year senior season. As a fifth-year senior, she started every game, was named the Pac-12 Co-Defensive Player of the Year and made the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team, and won the 2021 NCAA Division I national championship with the Cardinal. She finished her career with Stanford in 2022 after six seasons, and again made the Pac-12 All-Defensive Team. After college, Wilson declared for the 2022 WNBA draft, where she went unselected. Her brother Russell is a quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League who won Super Bowl XLVIII with the Seattle Seahawks.

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