COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley announced her team’s theme for the 2025-26 season – Beyond Measure. As is often the case, this season’s theme reflects not just the state of South Carolina women’s basketball but that of the game overall as the sport continues to expand its reach.
For South Carolina, the theme nods to some core values of the program. A player’s value to a team is not measured just by her stat line but also by a myriad of other ways she elevates her team. Championships and accolades are not valuable just because of trophies in a case but also because they lift up a university, a city, a state. The value of the FAMS who support the team at Colonial Life Arena and around the country cannot be measured just by ticket sales, but also by the way they form a united community that supersedes all their differences.
The success of Staley’s program is not notable just for the players, coaches and staff of teams who have won championships or achieved individuals honors. It is notable for every person who has been part of building it into the national power it has become. The graphic of the theme celebrates that legacy by including each year’s theme and the jersey number of every player in the Staley era, all of which has contributed to the limitless future of the game of women’s basketball.
Under Staley, South Carolina women’s basketball has shared a new public theme each season since 2012-13, when it began with Sacrifice. Each year’s theme is grounded in something that speaks to the team’s aspirations or to what is happening in the world around them. Following Sacrifice, the themes have been: Be the Change (2013-14), one. (2014-15), The Show (2015-16), 100 (2016-17), We Are (2017-18), Own It (2018-19), Woman Up (2019-20), What Matters (2020-21), Net Worth (2021-22), DNA – Dreams, Nets, Assets (2022-23), Love (2023-24) and Uncommon (2024-25).
Continue to check GamecocksOnline.com and the team’s social media accounts (@GamecockWBB) for the most up-to-date information on the women’s basketball season.