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Latasha Lattimore Selected to Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Preseason Watchlist
10/30/2025 | Women's Basketball
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – For the second time this season, an Ole Miss women's basketball player has been recognized on the Naismith Starting Five watchlist, as Latasha Lattimore was named to the 2026 Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Preseason watchlist, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association announced on Thursday.
This marks the sixth consecutive year at least one Rebel has been recognized on a preseason Naismith award watch list, and the first time since the 2023-24 season that multiple Ole Miss players have been tabbed, as Madison Scott and Kennedy Todd-Williams were both named to the Cheryl Miller Award watchlist. Lattimore is a first-time honoree on the preseason award watch list.
The annual award recognizes the top power forward in NCAA Division I women's basketball, determined by a national committee. The winner of the 2026 Katrina McClain award will be presented on a to be determined date along with the other four members of the Women's Starting Five awards.
A graduate transfer from Virginia, Lattimore averaged 14.3 points per game and led the Cavaliers with 8.2 rebounds, while ranking 18th nationally with 69 total blocks. Before her time at Virginia, she competed at Miami and Texas, where she helped the Longhorns capture a Big 12 Championship and reach the Elite Eight, appearing in all 32 games that season.
Previous winners of the Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Award are Aneesah Morrow, LSU (2025), Kiki Iriafen, Stanford (2024), Maddy Siegrist, Villanova (2023), and NaLyssa Smith, Baylor (2021-22).
For more information on the 2026 Cheryl Miller Award and the latest updates, visit hoophallawards.com and follow @hoophall and #McClainAward on Twitter and Instagram.
About Katrina McClain
Katrina McClain was a prolific rebounder and terrific scorer in a career that spanned three Olympic Games, three continents, and countless driveways, backyards, and arenas all over the world. Before she earned her stripes for USA Basketball, McClain starred at the University of Georgia where she was a two-time Kodak All-America and the WBCA National Player of the Year her senior season. She left Georgia as the school's second all-time leading scorer and rebounder, averaging a double-double her final two seasons in Athens. The Lady Bulldogs reached the 1985 NCAA Final Four and national championship game with McClain controlling the paint and Teresa Edwards running the offense. The two-time USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year finished her international career with two Olympic gold medals and one bronze, three FIBA World Championships medals, and five medals at the Goodwill Games, Pan Am Games, and World University Games. In all Katrina McClain appeared on eleven USA Basketball rosters becoming one of the most decorated athletes in USA Basketball history.
About the WBCA
Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association is the professional association for coaches of women's and girls' basketball at all levels of competition. The WBCA offers educational resources that coaches need to help make themselves better leaders, teachers and mentors to their players; provides opportunities for coaches to connect with peers in the profession; serves as the unifying voice of a diverse community of coaches to those organizations that control the game; and celebrates those coaches, players and other individuals who excel each year and contribute to the advancement of the sport. For more information, visit us online: WBCA.org, follow @wbca1981 or call 1-770-279-8027.
About the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the city where basketball was born, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting, preserving and celebrating the game of basketball at every level – men and women, amateur and professional players, coaches and contributors, both domestically and internationally. The Hall of Fame museum is home to more than 400 inductees and over 40,000 square feet of basketball history. Nearly 200,000 people visit the Hall of Fame museum each year to learn about the game, experience the interactive exhibits and test their skills on the Jerry Colangelo "Court of Dreams." Best known for its annual marquee Enshrinement Ceremony honoring the game's elite, the Hall of Fame also operates over 70 high school and collegiate competitions annually throughout the country and abroad. For more information on the Basketball Hall of Fame organization, its museum and events, visit hoophall.com, follow @hoophall or call 1-877-4HOOPLA.
Season and single game tickets for the 2025-26 campaign are on sale now. Click here to secure yours today or visit OleMissTix.com.
Follow the Rebels on X at @OleMissWBB, Facebook at Ole Miss WBB and on Instagram at Ole MissWBB. You can also follow head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin on X at @YolettMcCuin.
Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Watch List
Essence Cody – Alabama
Darianna Littlepage-Buggs – Baylor
Toby Fournier – Duke
Meghan Andersen – Fairfield
Allie Kubek – Florida State
Hannah Stuelke – Iowa
Addy Brown – Iowa State
Amiya Joyner – LSU
Mir McLean – Maryland
Khamil Pierre – NC State
Natalie Potts – Nebraska
Latasha Lattimore – Ole Miss
Maggie Doogan – Richmond
Joyce Edwards – South Carolina
Nunu Agara – Stanford
Janiah Barker – Tennessee
Sienna Betts – UCLA
Sarah Strong – UConn
Sacha Washington – Vanderbilt
Sa'Myah Smith - Virginia
This marks the sixth consecutive year at least one Rebel has been recognized on a preseason Naismith award watch list, and the first time since the 2023-24 season that multiple Ole Miss players have been tabbed, as Madison Scott and Kennedy Todd-Williams were both named to the Cheryl Miller Award watchlist. Lattimore is a first-time honoree on the preseason award watch list.
The annual award recognizes the top power forward in NCAA Division I women's basketball, determined by a national committee. The winner of the 2026 Katrina McClain award will be presented on a to be determined date along with the other four members of the Women's Starting Five awards.
A graduate transfer from Virginia, Lattimore averaged 14.3 points per game and led the Cavaliers with 8.2 rebounds, while ranking 18th nationally with 69 total blocks. Before her time at Virginia, she competed at Miami and Texas, where she helped the Longhorns capture a Big 12 Championship and reach the Elite Eight, appearing in all 32 games that season.
Previous winners of the Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Award are Aneesah Morrow, LSU (2025), Kiki Iriafen, Stanford (2024), Maddy Siegrist, Villanova (2023), and NaLyssa Smith, Baylor (2021-22).
For more information on the 2026 Cheryl Miller Award and the latest updates, visit hoophallawards.com and follow @hoophall and #McClainAward on Twitter and Instagram.
About Katrina McClain
Katrina McClain was a prolific rebounder and terrific scorer in a career that spanned three Olympic Games, three continents, and countless driveways, backyards, and arenas all over the world. Before she earned her stripes for USA Basketball, McClain starred at the University of Georgia where she was a two-time Kodak All-America and the WBCA National Player of the Year her senior season. She left Georgia as the school's second all-time leading scorer and rebounder, averaging a double-double her final two seasons in Athens. The Lady Bulldogs reached the 1985 NCAA Final Four and national championship game with McClain controlling the paint and Teresa Edwards running the offense. The two-time USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year finished her international career with two Olympic gold medals and one bronze, three FIBA World Championships medals, and five medals at the Goodwill Games, Pan Am Games, and World University Games. In all Katrina McClain appeared on eleven USA Basketball rosters becoming one of the most decorated athletes in USA Basketball history.
About the WBCA
Founded in 1981, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association is the professional association for coaches of women's and girls' basketball at all levels of competition. The WBCA offers educational resources that coaches need to help make themselves better leaders, teachers and mentors to their players; provides opportunities for coaches to connect with peers in the profession; serves as the unifying voice of a diverse community of coaches to those organizations that control the game; and celebrates those coaches, players and other individuals who excel each year and contribute to the advancement of the sport. For more information, visit us online: WBCA.org, follow @wbca1981 or call 1-770-279-8027.
About the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the city where basketball was born, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting, preserving and celebrating the game of basketball at every level – men and women, amateur and professional players, coaches and contributors, both domestically and internationally. The Hall of Fame museum is home to more than 400 inductees and over 40,000 square feet of basketball history. Nearly 200,000 people visit the Hall of Fame museum each year to learn about the game, experience the interactive exhibits and test their skills on the Jerry Colangelo "Court of Dreams." Best known for its annual marquee Enshrinement Ceremony honoring the game's elite, the Hall of Fame also operates over 70 high school and collegiate competitions annually throughout the country and abroad. For more information on the Basketball Hall of Fame organization, its museum and events, visit hoophall.com, follow @hoophall or call 1-877-4HOOPLA.
Season and single game tickets for the 2025-26 campaign are on sale now. Click here to secure yours today or visit OleMissTix.com.
Follow the Rebels on X at @OleMissWBB, Facebook at Ole Miss WBB and on Instagram at Ole MissWBB. You can also follow head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin on X at @YolettMcCuin.
Katrina McClain Power Forward of the Year Watch List
Essence Cody – Alabama
Darianna Littlepage-Buggs – Baylor
Toby Fournier – Duke
Meghan Andersen – Fairfield
Allie Kubek – Florida State
Hannah Stuelke – Iowa
Addy Brown – Iowa State
Amiya Joyner – LSU
Mir McLean – Maryland
Khamil Pierre – NC State
Natalie Potts – Nebraska
Latasha Lattimore – Ole Miss
Maggie Doogan – Richmond
Joyce Edwards – South Carolina
Nunu Agara – Stanford
Janiah Barker – Tennessee
Sienna Betts – UCLA
Sarah Strong – UConn
Sacha Washington – Vanderbilt
Sa'Myah Smith - Virginia
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