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Charisma Osborne (born June 3, 2001) is an American college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins of the Pac-12 Conference.
High school career
Osborne played basketball for Windward School in Los Angeles under coach Vanessa Nygaard. As a sophomore, she led her team to a Division I state title. In her junior season, Osborne led Windward to the Open Division state championship and earned California Ms. Basketball honors. As a senior, she was selected to play in the McDonald's All-American Game and was named Los Angeles Times player of the year for a third consecutive season. Rated a five-star recruit by ESPN, she committed to play college basketball for UCLA over offers from Duke, Louisville, Ohio State and USC.
College career
As a freshman at UCLA, Osborne averaged 12.2 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, receiving Pac-12 All-Freshman honors. She made 59 three-pointers, the most by a freshman in program history. On February 26, 2021, she posted her first career triple-double, with 18 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in a 93–51 win over USC. In her sophomore season, Osborne averaged 17 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game and was an All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 All-Defensive Team selection. As a junior, she averaged 16.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game, earning All-Pac-12 honors. In the second round of the 2023 NCAA tournament, Osborne scored a career-high 36 points in an 82–73 victory over Oklahoma. She averaged 15.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game in her senior season and made the All-Pac-12 Team for her third straight year. Despite being a projected top-10 pick in the 2023 WNBA draft, Osborne returned to UCLA for a fifth season of eligibility, granted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
National team career
Osborne won a gold medal playing for the United States at the 2018 FIBA Under-17 World Cup, where she averaged 4 points and 3.7 rebounds per game. She competed for the senior national team at the 2023 FIBA Women's AmeriCup in Mexico, averaging 5.1 points, 4.1 rebounds and a team-high 3 assists per game en route to a silver medal.
