UI Women’s Basketball release (edit)
07/13/23
Caitlin Clark was named the ESPY award winner for Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports on Wednesday night.
Clark was named the winner over fellow nominees Jordy Bahl (Oklahoma, softball), Izzy Scane (Northwestern, lacrosse), and Trinity Thomas (Florida, gymnastics). Clark was a finalist for the Female Breakthrough Athlete of the Year at the ESPYS.
Clark also won the 2023 Big Ten Female Athlete of the Year Award, Honda Cup and was named Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year as by THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). She also won the 2023 Naismith, Wooden and Wade Trophies along with the Associated Press and USBWA Ann Drysdale Player of the Year honors.
She is also a two-time winner of the Nancy Lieberman Point Guard Award and is the first-ever three-time winner of the Dawn Staley Award. She also won the Honda Sport Award for Basketball in April.
Overall, Clark became the first player in Division I women’s basketball history to record more than 1,000 points and 300 assists in the same season and was fastest Division I player (men’s or women’s) to reach 1,500 career points over the last 20 seasons. Off the court, she is a two-time First Team Academic All-American and was named the 2023 CSC Academic All-America of the Year.
Clark was also named a Semifinalist for the 93rd AAU James E. Sullivan Award Wednesday. In addition to athletic excellence, the AAU Sullivan Award aims to recognize the qualities of leadership, citizenship, character, and sportsmanship on and off the field. The one-week voting period to determine the six finalists is open until 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 19. The public can vote once a day for their choice, up until the voting closes.
A link to the voting site: https://bit.ly/93rdSullivanSemiFinalists