Audi Crooks

AMES — Iowa State women’s basketball sophomore Audi Crooks completed the clean sweep of preseason National Player of the Year Watch Lists when the rising star was named to the “Wade Watch” for the 2025 Wade Trophy, the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced.

Crooks has already been named to the Preseason Watch Lists for the Naismith Trophy and Wooden Award this season. She was also named a unanimous choice for the Preseason All-Big 12 Team, Preseason AP All-America Honorable Mention and Preseason All-America Second Team by The Athletic. The Algona native also appears on the Lisa Leslie Award Watch List for the nation’s top center in women’s basketball.

Through No. 8 Iowa State’s first four contests of the 2024-25 season, Crooks is averaging 18.8 points and 7.8 rebounds per game while shooting 57 percent from the floor. Against Southern, the 6-foot-3 center posted 17 points and a game-high 11 rebounds for her ninth career double-double.

The 2023 AP All-America Honorable Mention and first-team All-Big 12 selection set an Iowa State single-season record for made field goals (258) and freshman records for points (635) and made free throws (114) a season ago.