WNBA Single-Season Three-Point Percentage Record Progression
Every season that raised the bar, and the leader in every season between.
The WNBA single-season three-point percentage record is 53.1%, set by Temeka Johnson in 2012. It has stood for 14 years. The mark has been raised 3 times since 1997.
Record Holders
4 marks since 1997| Year | Player | 3P% | Stood for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 |
 Temeka Johnson
|
53.1% | still standing |
| 2001 |
 Jennifer Azzi
|
51.4% | 11 years |
| 1999 |
 Sandy Brondello
|
48.7% | 2 years |
| 1997 | Eva Nemcova | 43.5% | 2 years |
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
30 seasons| Year | Leader | 3P% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Kelsey Mitchell | 45.0% | |
| 2025 | Sonia Citron | 44.5% | |
| 2024 | Stefanie Dolson | 46.5% | |
| 2023 | Jackie Young | 44.9% | |
| 2022 | Moriah Jefferson | 47.4% | |
| 2021 | Allie Quigley | 45.4% | |
| 2020 | Alysha Clark | 52.2% | |
| 2019 | Alysha Clark | 48.1% | |
| 2018 | Briann January | 47.0% | |
| 2017 | Chelsea Gray | 48.2% | |
| 2016 | Sue Bird | 44.4% | |
| 2015 | Leilani Mitchell | 39.6% | |
| 2014 | Erin Phillips | 44.9% | |
| 2013 | Maya Moore | 45.3% | |
| 2012 | Temeka Johnson | 53.1% | new record |
| 2011 | Kelly Miller | 44.1% | |
| 2010 | Leilani Mitchell | 48.6% | |
| 2009 | Tangela Smith | 45.2% | |
| 2008 | Lisa Willis | 46.8% | |
| 2007 | Svetlana Abrosimova | 44.6% | |
| 2006 | DeLisha Milton-Jones | 43.0% | |
| 2005 | Kara Lawson | 44.4% | |
| 2004 | Elena Baranova | 46.1% | |
| 2003 | Nikki Teasley | 42.4% | |
| 2002 | Jennifer Azzi | 44.6% | |
| 2001 | Jennifer Azzi | 51.4% | new record |
| 2000 | Tina Thompson | 41.7% | |
| 1999 | Sandy Brondello | 48.7% | new record |
| 1998 | Cynthia Cooper | 40.0% | |
| 1997 | Eva Nemcova | 43.5% | new record |