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Women
who can dunk.

Every confirmed in-game dunk in women's basketball history, organized by player. The myth that "women can't dunk" was dead the moment Georgeann Wells threw one down in 1984. Forty years later, it happens in the Final Four, in the WNBA, and — with Juju Watkins's class on the rise — increasingly in high school gyms.

24
WNBA career record (Griner)
1984
First ever — Georgeann Wells
2002
First in the WNBA — Lisa Leslie
~15
Confirmed in-game dunkers, all-time
Corrections · 2026-04-22 Thanks to the r/wnba community for flagging embellishments (the launch thread has since been removed by the subreddit, but the corrections survived). The list has been tightened — Juju Watkins and Kamilla Cardoso moved to "watchlist" until a documented in-game dunk surfaces. Similar caveats added to Natalie Williams (may have been ABL, not WNBA) and Li Yueru. If you've got a clip for anyone named here, please share it on the BBS thread and we'll update.

The dunkers — sortable, filterable

Every woman with a documented in-game dunk or a credible pending claim. Sort by any column; filter by status, league, or division. Click a player's sources to verify independently.

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Rank Player Dunks Ht Team League Div Status Game Dunks First Active Sources

Tip: click any column header to sort. Default rank follows our curatorial Top 10 (impact + athleticism). Sort by "Status" or "First" to see the list by verification or chronology instead. Angel Reese and Tina Charles have been removed — no practice video surfaced for Reese; Charles considered unlikely at this career stage.

Why it still matters

Women dunking isn't a novelty anymore — Griner made it regular, Belibi made it an NCAA regular occurrence, and Malonga has made it a Paris 2024 Olympic memory. The question was never whether women could dunk. It was whether the rims would get lowered on anyone's watch, and the answer was always: no.

Methodology: "In-game dunk" means a dunk in a regulation game (WNBA regular season or playoffs, NCAA regular season or tournament, FIBA competition, Olympics, or top-tier pro league). Preseason, practice, warmup, and pregame dunks are tagged practice in the Status column. If a claim is challenged, it goes to pending until broadcast footage or a primary source is surfaced.

Sources & how this list was built

Compiled from the following references. If a claim on this page isn't supported by at least one of these, it's on the watchlist.

Primary references

Secondary / community

  • YouTube broadcast clips (linked inline per entry)
  • r/wnba launch thread (removed by subreddit — community corrections preserved here)
  • girlhoop community on AustinSpring BBS
  • Her Hoop Stats and Swish Appeal historical coverage
  • AP wire archive recaps for specific game dates

Editorial process: draft compiled from Wikipedia, old Bleacher Report list, news archives, and community memory, plus AI cross-checking and a review of available YouTube footage. When a claim couldn't be sourced, it moved to watchlist. Documented sources are linked per entry above; this is an ongoing correction process, not a finished reference.

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This list stays alive through community corrections. The launch thread on r/wnba was removed by the sub — no surprise for a reference post — so the conversation has moved where we own it:

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