Aliyah Boston wins Honda Cup as top female college athlete

The junior ahead is the primary basketball participant to win the award since Breanna Stewart in 2016. General, 16 basketball gamers have received the Honda Cup — essentially the most of any sport.

“It means so much. Lots of these ladies are my function fashions,” Boston stated. “Coach Staley was a previous winner. Candace Parker was my function mannequin since I used to be 9 years outdated.”

Boston helped South Carolina to its second nationwide championship this previous spring and was the AP ladies’s basketball Participant of the Yr.

The opposite finalists for the award had been Oklahoma softball senior Jocelyn Alo and Florida gymnast Trinity Thomas.

“All these ladies on the stage assist every sport they play,” Boston stated.

The highest three had been chosen by voting of practically 1,000 NCAA member colleges, and the winner was chosen by the Board of Administrators of the Collegiate Girls Sports activities Awards program.

“The Honda Class of 2022 is really a unprecedented group of girls who’ve achieved notable accomplishments of their sports activities and within the school rooms throughout the nation,” stated Chris Voelz, govt director of the Collegiate Girls Sports activities Awards. “We’re thrilled to have them be part of our elite household of the ‘better of the most effective.’

“To Aliyah Boston, this 12 months’s Honda Cup winner, we commend and congratulate you in your exceptional achievements which led to your choice because the Cup winner and welcome you to this uncommon sisterhood, being named the easiest feminine collegiate athlete within the nation.”

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Extra AP ladies’s faculty basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball and https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://twitter.com/AP_Top25