{"id":70823,"date":"2026-04-03T15:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/uconns-sarah-strong-named-ap-player-of-the-year-after-standout-sophomore-season\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:59:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:59:46","slug":"uconns-sarah-strong-named-ap-player-of-the-year-after-standout-sophomore-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/uconns-sarah-strong-named-ap-player-of-the-year-after-standout-sophomore-season\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn\u2019s Sarah Strong named AP player of the year after standout sophomore season"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Strong is Huskies\u2019 first winner since Paige Bueckers in 2021<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/27\/sarah-strong-uconn-basketball-ncaa-tournament\">\u2018Low-key superstar\u2019<\/a> has led undefeated team to Final Four<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sarah Strong of UConn was named the Associated Press women\u2019s basketball Player of the Year after leading the Huskies to an undefeated season, setting the stage for a run to the Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>Strong became just the fifth player to win the award in her sophomore year, joining Oklahoma\u2019s Courtney Paris (2007), UConn stars Maya Moore (2009) and Breanna Stewart (2014) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/04\/uscs-juju-watkins-wins-ap-womens-player-of-the-year-award\">USC\u2019s JuJu Watkins<\/a>, who won it last year. The AP started giving out the award in 1995.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/03\/sarah-strong-uconn-national-player-of-the-year\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong is Huskies\u2019 first winner since Paige Bueckers in 2021 \u2018Low-key superstar\u2019 has led undefeated team to Final Four Sarah Strong of UConn was named the Associated Press women\u2019s basketball Player of the Year after leading the Huskies to an undefeated season, setting the stage for a run to the Final Four. Strong became just &#8230; <a title=\"UConn\u2019s Sarah Strong named AP player of the year after standout sophomore season\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/uconns-sarah-strong-named-ap-player-of-the-year-after-standout-sophomore-season\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about UConn\u2019s Sarah Strong named AP player of the year after standout sophomore season\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}