By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
For the second year in a row, Gretchen Walsh has been named the Honda Sports Award for swimming & diving.
The Honda Sports Awards, voted on by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools, award the best female athlete of the year in each of the 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. Winners of each sport become nominees for the Honda Cup, the overall best female collegiate athlete of the year. 2025 marks the 49th year of the prestigious award’s existence. This year’s Honda Cup will be presented live from New York City on CBS Sports Network on June 6 at 7:00 P.M. ET.
Walsh, a senior at the University of Virginia, finished a historic season at the 2025 NCAA Championships in March. The 22-year-old Tennessee native captured seven NCAA event titles this year, three of them individual. This brought her career total titles to 25. As the meet’s high point scorer, Walsh led UVA to a fifth straight team NCAA title. Further, she holds the fastest yards times in history in the 50 and 100 freestyles as well as the 100 backstroke and 100 fly. The CSCAA named Walsh Women’s Swimmer of the Year each of the past two years.
Outside of the collegiate sphere, Walsh holds five individual world records and has four Olympic medals to her name, two of them gold.
This marks a second consecutive win of the sports award for Walsh and a fourth straight year for the Cavaliers. Prior to Walsh, Kate Douglass received the Sports Award in 2022 and 2023.
Other nominees for this year’s award included Walsh’s teammate Claire Curzan as well as Texas’ Jillian Cox and Miami diver Chiara Pellacani.
Swimmers have won the Honda Cup nine times with Simone Manuel being the most recent winner prior to Walsh in 2018. The other swimming winners have been Jill Sterkel (1981), Tracy Caulkins (1982, 1984), Mary T. Meagher (1987), Cristina Teuscher (2000), Tara Kirk (2004), Missy Franklin (2015), and Katie Ledecky (2017). See the full history of winners here.
Other Announced 2025 Sports Awards / Honda Cup Finalists
Cross Country – Doris Lemngole, Alabama Field Hockey – Maddie Zimmer, Northwestern Soccer – Kate Faasse, North Carolina Volleyball – Olivia Babcock, PittsburghRead the full story on SwimSwam: Gretchen Walsh Wins Honda Sports Award For A Second Time
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