Jacquelyn Young (born September 16, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the Las Vegas Aces of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Laces BC of Unrivaled. She is the daughter of Linda Young and David Wayne Edwards Sr. She was drafted first overall by the Las Vegas Aces in the 2019 WNBA draft. A graduate of Princeton Community High School, she played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, reaching two NCAA finals and winning one in 2018. She won a gold medal in Women's 3x3 basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2024, she won the gold medal in 5x5 basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She has won three WNBA championships as a member of the Las Vegas Aces, and is a four-time WNBA All-Star.
Young led her team to a 27–1 record in her senior season, ranking third in the state and ninth in the nation in scoring with 34.9 PPG. She also achieved 9.5 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 3.8 steals. She shot .605 as a senior with a .429 mark from three-point range and an .861 free-throw percentage. All told, she compiled 20 30-point games, 10 40-point games and a season high 53 points on Nov 20 vs. county rival Gibson Southern. She was the recipient of the 2016 Indiana Miss Basketball award.
Young set the Indiana high school girls' basketball single season scoring record as a junior, recording 1,003 points. She was the fifth player of either sex in state history to score 1,000 points in a season. She was ranked in the top-10 by nearly all major national recruiting services, including a No. 5 rank by Prospects Nation.
In the 2020 WNBA season, Young averaged 10.1 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assist in 40 games with the Aces.
In the 2021 WNBA season, Young emerged as an early candidate for Most Improved Player after being shifted to that of a play finisher rather than a playmaker but eventually lost out to Brionna Jones as Dallas went out at the semi-final stage of the 2021 WNBA Playoffs. Following her further improvements during the 2022 season, she was selected as most improved player throughout the WNBA in 2022. She was also announced to her first WNBA All-Star team as a starter in July.
As of the end of the 2025 season, Young has won three WNBA championship championships as part of the Las Vegas Aces (2022, 2023, 2025), and has been a WNBA All-Star four times (2022–2025). In the 2025 Finals, she additionally set a WNBA record with the most points ever scored in a quarter in a Finals game, when she scored 21 points in the third quarter of game two, as well as tying her playoff career high with 32 points.
| † | Denotes seasons in which Young won a WNBA Finals |
| * | Denotes season(s) in which Young won an NCAA Championship |
|- | style="text-align:left;"| 2019 | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 34 || 34 || 22.6 || .322 || .318 || .808 || 3.3 || 4.5 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 1.6 || 6.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2020 | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 22 || 0 || 25.8 || .492 || .231 || .852 || 4.3 || 3.0 || 0.7 || 0.1 || 1.6 || 11.0 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2021 | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 32 || 32 || 31.8 || .507 || .250 || .833 || 4.1 || 3.2 || 1.1 || 0.3 || 1.5 || 12.2 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2022† | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 34 || 34 || 33.2 || .476 || .431 || .859 || 4.4 || 3.9 || 1.4 || 0.2 || 1.3 || 15.9 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2023† | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 40 || 40 || 31.5 || .523 || .449 || .867 || 4.0 || 3.8 || 1.3 || 0.1 || 1.8 || 17.6 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2024 | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 37 || 37 || 32.6 || .430 || .337 || .867 || 4.4 || 5.3 || 1.0 || 0.2 || 2.1 || 15.8 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2025† | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 44 || 44 || 30.4 || .475 || .359 || .894 || 4.5 || 5.1 || 1.3 || 0.4 || 2.2 || 16.5
|- class="sortbottom" | rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;"| Career | style="text-align:left;"| 7 years, 1 team | 243 || 221 || 30.0 || .467 || .378 || .860 || 4.1 || 4.2 || 1.1 || 0.3 || 1.7 || 14.0 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;"| All-Star | 4 || 3 || 12.6 || .190 || .167 || — || 1.3 || 1.5 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.8 || 2.5
|- | style="text-align:left;"| 2019 | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 5 || 5 || 12.4 || .409 || .800 || .875 || 1.8 || 2.6 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1.2 || 5.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2020 | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 8 || 0 || 20.4 || .309 || .167 || .905 || 3.0 || 2.8 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 2.4 || 7.8 |- | style="text-align:left;"| 2021 | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 5 || 5 || 26.0 || .333 || .000 || 1.000 || 3.2 || 2.2 || 1.0 || 0.4 || 0.6 || 5.6 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2022† | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 10 || 10 || 34.5 || .432 || .474 || .926 || 4.1 || 3.0 || 0.8 || 0.1 || 1.6 || 12.5 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2023† | style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 9 || 9 || 34.8 || .421 || .415 || .914 || 5.6 || 5.0 || 1.6 || 0.1 || 1.2 || 16.7 |- |style="text-align:left;"| 2024 |style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 6 || 6 || 30.5 || .375 || .359 || .818 || 5.8 || 3.0 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 1.2 || 13.8 |- |style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2025† |style="text-align:left;"| Las Vegas | 12 || 12 || 34.8 || .494 || .309 || .945 || 4.8 || 5.5 || 1.4 || 0.0 || 2.5 || 20.4 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:left;"| Career | style="text-align:left;"| 7 years, 1 team | 55 || 47 || 29.3 || .420 || .381 || .920 || 4.2 || 3.7 || 0.9 || 0.1 || 1.7 || 13.1
| + Figures are average per game | Year/League | Team | RNK | ||||||||||||||||
| Turkish League 2020 | Elazig | 1.0 | |||||||||||||||||
WNBL (Australia) | class="wikitable" | + !Year !Team !G !PTS !FGA !FGM !FG% !3PA !3PM !3P% !FTA !FTM !FT& !DEF !OFF !REB !AST !BLK !STL !TO | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Perth Lynx | 20 | 356 | 293 | 140 | 47.8 | 15 | 3 | 20 | 87 | 73 | 83.9 | 61 | 20 | 81 | 66 | 4 | 30 | 32 |
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