WNBA Single-Season Assists per Game Record Progression
Every season that raised the bar, and the leader in every season between.
The WNBA single-season assists per game record is 10.0, set by Courtney Vandersloot in 2020. It has stood for 6 years. The mark has been raised 7 times since 1997.
Record Holders
8 marks since 1997| Year | Player | APG | Stood for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 |
 Courtney Vandersloot
|
10.0 | still standing |
| 2019 |
Courtney Vandersloot
|
9.1 | 1 year |
| 2018 |
Courtney Vandersloot
|
8.6 | 1 year |
| 2017 |
Courtney Vandersloot
|
8.1 | 1 year |
| 2002 | Ticha Penicheiro | 8.0 | 15 years |
| 2000 | Ticha Penicheiro | 7.9 | 2 years |
| 1998 | Ticha Penicheiro | 7.5 | 2 years |
| 1997 | Teresa Weatherspoon | 6.1 | 1 year |
The earliest marks here are records only in the sense that nobody had done better yet. Season length, schedule and the rules themselves have all changed, so a figure from the 1870s is not comparable with a modern one and is not offered as though it were.
Every Season
29 seasons| Year | Leader | APG | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Alyssa Thomas | 9.2 | |
| 2024 | Caitlin Clark | 8.4 | |
| 2023 | Courtney Vandersloot | 8.1 | |
| 2022 | Natasha Cloud | 7.0 | |
| 2021 | Courtney Vandersloot | 8.6 | |
| 2020 | Courtney Vandersloot | 10.0 | new record |
| 2019 | Courtney Vandersloot | 9.1 | new record |
| 2018 | Courtney Vandersloot | 8.6 | new record |
| 2017 | Courtney Vandersloot | 8.1 | new record |
| 2016 | Sue Bird | 5.8 | |
| 2015 | Courtney Vandersloot | 5.8 | |
| 2014 | Diana Taurasi | 5.6 | |
| 2013 | Danielle Robinson | 6.7 | |
| 2012 | Lindsay Whalen | 5.4 | |
| 2011 | Lindsay Whalen | 5.9 | |
| 2010 | Ticha Penicheiro | 6.9 | |
| 2009 | Sue Bird | 5.8 | |
| 2008 | Lindsay Whalen | 5.4 | |
| 2007 | Becky Hammon | 5.0 | |
| 2006 | Nikki Teasley | 5.4 | |
| 2005 | Sue Bird | 5.9 | |
| 2004 | Nikki Teasley | 6.1 | |
| 2003 | Ticha Penicheiro | 6.7 | |
| 2002 | Ticha Penicheiro | 8.0 | new record |
| 2001 | Ticha Penicheiro | 7.5 | |
| 2000 | Ticha Penicheiro | 7.9 | new record |
| 1999 | Ticha Penicheiro | 7.1 | |
| 1998 | Ticha Penicheiro | 7.5 | new record |
| 1997 | Teresa Weatherspoon | 6.1 | new record |