Charisma Osborne

Personal: Osborne is the daughter of Chaka Farrell and Derek Osborne and has an older sister named Chadijha. She started playing basketball at nine years old and took her first international trip to Latvia and Belarus with the 2018 United States U-17 World Cup team. She majored in political science at UCLA.

Other Professional Experience: Charisma Osborne was selected by Phoenix with the No. 25 overall pick in the 2024 WNBA Draft. She appeared in two games as a reserve with the Mercury. In her professional debut against Minnesota on June 22, 2024, she scored two points with one rebound and one assist.

International Experience: Osborne was a member of the 2018 Team USA squad that won the Gold medal at the FIBA U-17 Women’s World Cup. She averaged 4.0 points and 3.7 rebounds per game while guiding the United States to a perfect 7-0 record. She also helped the United States win the Silver medal at the 2023 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, where she averaged 5.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, and 3.0 assists over seven games.

At UCLA: Osborne was a five-year letter winner at UCLA, appearing in a school-record 152 games for the Bruins from 2019-2024, with 150 starts. She was a seven-time All-Pac-12 Conference selection, including four certificates from the league’s coaches and three honors from the circuit’s media members. She also secured four Pac-12 All-Defensive Team commendations from the coaches and was a member of the 2020 Pac-12 All-Freshman Team. She received Pac-12 Player of the Week distinction seven times during her career and finished her college career as the second-leading scorer in school history with 2,272 points. She was one of four players in UCLA history with 2,000 or more career points and also ranked 10th on the career ledger with 845 rebounds, while holding the No. 6 spot on the Bruins’ all-time assist list (477).

She also collected 234 steals, including a career-high 55 thefts during her final season with the Bruins. Osborne was UCLA’s all-time leader in career three-point field goals made (282) and three-point field goal attempts (873). She made at least 50 three-pointers during each of her five seasons and established program freshman single-season marks with 59 made three-pointers and 177 three-point field goal attempts during the 2019-20 campaign. She tied for 10th on UCLA’s all-time chart with 35 career games of 20 or more points and had three career 30-point games, including a career-high 36-point outburst against Oklahoma on March 20, 2023. She converted 85.3 percent of her career free throws, the third-highest mark in program history.

Osborne was the Bruins’ leading scorer as a junior and senior and also paced UCLA with a 5.9 rebounding average during the 2022-23 campaign. She led the squad in steals three times in her college career and was one of seven players in UCLA women’s basketball history to author a triple-double. She scored 18 points with 10 rebounds and 12 assists against USC on February 26, 2021.

She started 34 games during her final season at UCLA and ranked second on the team with a 13.9 scoring average, while adding 5.2 rebounds per game. She anchored the Bruins’ defensive efforts with 55 steals and paced the Pac-12 with a .892 free throw percentage. She was a top-five finalist for the 2024 Ann Meyers Drysdale Shooting Guard of the Year Award. As a senior, she earned a starting assignment in 36 games and led UCLA by scoring 15.9 points per game. During her junior season, she was the third-leading scorer in the Pac-12 Conference with a 16.4 average. She registered 25 double-digit scoring outputs, including nine games with 20 or more points, and also paced the Bruins with 108 assists and 113 defensive rebounds. As a starter in all 23 games during the 2020-21 season, she posted double figures in scoring 20 times, including eight 20-point performances. She rattled off seven straight games with 20 or more points from January 3 to February 7, 2021. She opened her career in 2019-20 by starting 29 of 31 games and ranking third on the team with a 12.2 scoring average, while also grabbing 5.8 rebounds per game to rate second on the squad.