Clara Strack Named to Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List

LEXINGTON, Ky. – University of Kentucky women’s basketball versatile center Clara Strack has been selected to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List, it was announced by the organization Wednesday.

Clara Strack defends against a Missouri player during Sunday's game at Historic Memorial Coliseum. (Photo by Rob Raymond)

The list, which is selected by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, comprises 25 student-athletes who are frontrunners for the most prestigious honors in college basketball: the Wooden Award All-American Team™ and the Wooden Award® Most Outstanding Player.

Strack has already been named to the Naismith Trophy Player of the Year Watch List and the Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Watch List, while she also has been named a U.S. Basketball Writers Association Ann Meyers Drysdale Player of the Week (Nov. 25), Southeastern Conference Player of the Week (Nov. 25) and Preseason All-SEC Team selection by both the coaches and media.

Through 16 games in 2025-26, the junior is averaging 16.8 points per game, 9.8 rebounds per game, 2.1 assists per game, 2.9 blocks per game, which is ranked fifth in the nation, and 1.6 steals per game. The Wildcat is the only player in the country to have at least 16.0 ppg, 9.0 rpg and 2.5 bpg.

While the versatile center routinely stuffs the stats with impressive combinations, she recently became the first Kentucky player to have two games with at least 19 points, 10 rebounds, three blocks and two steals in a single season since All-American Victoria Dunlap in 2010-11 (Hofstra, Missouri).

The Buffalo, New York, native is shooting 51.6 percent from the field, while also knocking down 12 3s through 16 games.