Hannah Hidalgo

Hannah Grace Hidalgo (born February 22, 2005) is an American college basketball player for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). She attended Paul VI High School in Haddon Township, New Jersey, where she was named a McDonald's All-American and rated the fifth-best player (and best point guard) in her class by ESPN. Through her junior season at Notre Dame, Hidalgo has won the Dawn Staley Award as the nation's best guard and the Nancy Lieberman Award as the nation's best point guard. She has also earned first-team AP All-American honors as a freshman and sophomore, making her one of only four players in NCAA women's college basketball history to do so in their first two seasons, joining JuJu Watkins, Maya Moore, and Courtney Paris. She won the 2026 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Award and WBCA Defensive Player of the Year Award, after breaking the NCAA record for steals in a season with 202. She was the first NCAA player this century to average at least 25 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, and 5 steals per game in a season. At the international level, she has won three gold medals with the United States and was named 2023 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year. As part of those gold medal efforts, she was named to the 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup All-Star Five and the 2023 FIBA U-19 World Cup All-Tournament Team.