Honda Sports Award

Winners are selected in each of the 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports by a panel of more than 1,000 NCAA administrators. Three other athletes are honored as the Division II Athlete of the Year, Division III Athlete of the Year, and Inspiration Award winner. Each woman is selected not only for her superior athletic skills, but also for her leadership abilities, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. At the end of the year, one deserving athlete will be chosen as the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and receive the coveted Honda-Broderick Cup. Past winners of this prestigious award include Jackie Joyner and Mia Hamm. Honda has donated more than $3.4 million in grants and scholarships to the universities over the course of the program. ==History of the awards==

The Awards were first created in 1976, when Tom Broderick, an owner of an apparel store in Fergus, Ontario, decided to partner with Judie Holland, the senior women's administrator at UCLA and Irv Grossman, a journalist, sports marketer and media consultant, to create awards to recognize top female athletes at the collegiate level. The first awards were given in 1977, for Division I athletes, initially in ten sports and later expanded to 12 sports: • Basketball • Cross Country • Field Hockey • Golf • Gymnastics • Softball • Swimming & Diving • Tennis • Track & Field • Volleyball • Soccer (added in 1990) • Lacrosse (added in 2001) Each of these awards was initially called the Broderick Award. In addition to an individual award for a recipient in each of the ten sports, an overall winner across all sports was selected, and that individual also received an award, called the Broderick Cup, representing the top female athlete in collegiate athletics. Although athletics prowess was a major consideration in the selection process, the selection committee considered "not only athletic achievement but also the ideals of team contribution, scholastic endeavor, school and community involvement and those personal characteristics as stated in the philosophy of the NCAA". The third award is the Inspiration Award, which goes to a female athlete who has had to overcome hardship. Nominees are provided by all NCAA sanctioned schools and the organization Board of Directors makes the final selection. Between 1995 and 2008 the organization also selected a recipient of an Award of Merit. The potential recipients were not collegiate athletes, but individuals and organization who contributed significantly to: • Public awareness and appreciation of women's collegiate athletics • Elevation of the status of women's collegiate sports on a national level • 1995 Charlotte West (Southern Illinois) • 1996 Phyllis Howlett (Big Ten Conference) • 1997 Christine Grant (Iowa) • 1998 Judith M. Sweet (UC San Diego) • 1999 Judith R. Holland (UCLA) • 2000 Barbara Hedges (Washington) • 2002 Ruth Berkey (NCAA) • 2003 Patsy Mink (Senator, Hawaii) • 2004 Birch Bayh (Senator, Indiana) • 2007 Vivian Stringer (Head Coach, Rutgers Women's Basketball) • 2007 Rutgers Women's Basketball (Women's Basketball Team) • 2008 Women's Sports Foundation (WSF, Founded by Billie Jean King) == Award ceremony ==

Honda Sports Award announcement for the winners of the twelve sports are scheduled throughout the school year, following the completion of the post-season tournament. Other awards are presented as part of a two-day event, typically in late June of each year. The Collegiate Women Sports Award (CWSA) partnered with ESPNU for the 2013 event, and since 2014, has partnered with CBS to televise the announcement of the following awards: • Honda Inspiration Award • Honda Division II Player of the Year • Honda Division III Player of the Year • "Top Three" finalists selected from the twelve award winners of each individual sport • Honda Cup for the overall Collegiate Woman of the Year Since 2013, the annual event has been held at the USC Founders Club at Galen Center in Los Angeles. The 2020 award ceremony scheduled for June was cancelled due to COVID-19. == Pre-2000 Winners and nominees ==

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