VanSlooten Named to Naismith Trophy Watch List

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Michigan State girls’s basketball senior ahead Grace VanSlooten was named to the 2025-26 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List Presented by AXIA Time. 

She was one among 50 gamers named to the watch record that honors the very best gamers within the nation.

VanSlooten is one among 13 Big Ten gamers named to the watch record, together with her group USA teammate Hannah Stuelke from Iowa. VanSlooten was additionally named to the Preseason All-Big Ten group earlier this month as nicely the Cheryl Miller Award Watch List. 

In her first season with the Spartans, VanSlooten earned second-team All-Big Ten honors. She was first on the group in scoring, averaging 15.5 factors per recreation. She scored a career-high 480 factors her junior season.  She was tied for fifteenth within the Big Ten in rebounding, averaging 7.3 rebounds per recreation. In a win towards, Vanderbilt on the Acrisure Classic on Nov. 27, she scored her 1,000th profession level.

MSU opens the 2025-26 season the common season internet hosting Mercyhurst on Tuesday, Nov. 4.

2025-26 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List 

Nunu Agara, Stanford

Raegan Beers, Oklahoma

Lauren Betts, UCLA

Mikayla Blakes, Vanderbilt

Madison Booker, Texas

Zoe Brooks, NC State

Addy Brown, Iowa State

Jaloni Cambridge, Ohio State

Aaliyah Chavez, Oklahoma

Talaysia Cooper, Tennessee

Audi Crooks, Iowa State

Jazzy Davidson, USC

Maggie Doogan, Richmond

Joyce Edwards, South Carolina

Skylar Forbes, Marquette

Toby Fournier, Duke

Azzi Fudd, UConn

MiLaysia Fulwiley, LSU

Yarden Garzon, Maryland

Delaney Gibb, BYU

Rori Harmon,  Texas

Stailee Heard, Oklahoma State

Hannah Hidalgo, Notre Dame

Ashlon Jackson, Duke

Flau’Jae Johnson, LSU

Raven Johnson, South Carolina

Kymora Johnson, Virginia

Reniya Kelly, North Carolina

Gianna Kneepkens, UCLA

Ta’Niya Latson, South Carolina

Charlisse Leger-Walker, UCLA

Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, Baylor

Cotie McMahon, Ole Miss

Olivia Miles, TCU

S’Mya Nichols, Kansas

Olivia Olson, Michigan

Khamil Pierre, NC State

Kiki Rice, UCLA

Tajianna Roberts, Louisville

Kaylene Smikle, Maryland

Kennedy Smith, USC

Clara Strack, Kentucky

Sarah Strong, UConn

Hannah Stuelke, Iowa

Syla Swords, Michigan

Grace VanSlooten, Michigan State

Payton Verhulst, Oklahoma

Mikaylah Williams, LSU

Serah Williams, UConn

Laura Ziegler, Louisville