swimmers Kate Douglass (Virginia), Gretchen Walsh (Virginia), Maggie MacNeil (LSU) and diver Aranza Vazquez (North Carolina) has been nominated for the 2023 Honda Sports activities Award for Swimming and Diving by the Collegiate Ladies’s Sports activities Awards.
Douglass was a sports activities award winner in swimming and diving final 12 months.
Finalists have been chosen by a “panel of consultants and coaches” from the CSCAA, and every of the greater than 1,000 NCAA member colleges acquired one vote to decide on the winner.
The Honda Sports activities Award has been given yearly by the CWSA to the perfect feminine athletes in 12 NCAA-approved sports activities for the previous 37 years. The winner will likely be a finalist for the Honda Cup, which will likely be introduced in the course of the reside broadcast of the Collegiate Ladies’s Sports activities Awards in downtown LA on Monday, June 26, at 9 PM ET/6 PT on CBS Sports activities Community.
The swimmers have received the Honda Cup 9 instances in 47 years, and that is solely the second most after basketball:
- 2018 – Simone Manuel, Stanford
- 2017 – Katie Ledecky, Stanford
- 2015 – Mrs. Franklin, Cal
- 2004 – Tara Kirk, Stanford
- 2000 – Cristina Teuscher, Colombia
- 1987 – Mary T. Meagher, Cal
- 1984 – Tracy Caulkins, Florida (Tie)
- 1982 – Tracy Caulkins, Florida
- 1981 – Jill Sterkel, Texas
South Carolina basketball participant Aliyah Boston He received final 12 months and is competing once more this 12 months as a senior. With South Carolina nonetheless chasing an NCAA title, Boston’s stats have dropped a bit this 12 months.
See all past women’s awards here.
Courtesy of Athlete Bios: CWSA
Douglass, a senior from Pelham, NY, received the Honda Swimming & Diving Award for the Class of 2022 and was a two-time Honda Award finalist. Lastly, he was named CSCAA Swimmer of the Yr for the second consecutive 12 months and was named ACC Swimmer of the Yr twice. He received three particular person NCAA Championships (200 IMs, 100 butterflies, 200 chests) in a row and helped UVA attain their third NCAA title. All three of those wins have been new NCAA Data.
Walsh, who can also be a part of the Virginia Nationwide Championship crew, received two particular person championships (100 again, 100 free) and 4 relay championships en path to the championship. 11-time NCAA Champion and 14-time CSCAA All-American general. A sophomore from Nashville, Tenn., he has received eight ACC conferences and acquired 14 All-ACC awards.
MacNeil, a graduate scholar from London, Ontario, Canada, is a three-time Honda Award finalist with the College of Michigan, additionally incomes this honor in 2020 and 2021. She was the person champion within the free 50 on the ncaa Championships and earned LSU the primary ladies’s swimming nationwide title at school historical past. She is a 25-time CSCAA All-American and 14-time convention champion (SEC, Huge Ten).
Vazquez Montano was named the 2023 CSCAA Diver of the Yr after taking the nationwide title in each the 1-meter and 3-meter dives on the 2023 NCAA Championships. First UNC athlete to win the person diving championship. He swept dives on the ACC Championship, putting first in 1 meter, 3 meters and platform to win the ACC Championship Most Excellent Diver award.
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