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Jun 30, 2025, 08:51 PM ET
Swimmer Gretchen Walsh was named the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year connected Monday night, capping a vocation astatine the University of Virginia that included 25 full NCAA lawsuit titles, 9 of them individual.
Walsh was fixed the Honda Cup during an awards ceremony. She is the ninth swimmer to triumph the award, and the archetypal since Simone Manuel successful 2018.
The Class of 2025 Top Three included Walsh, UConn hoops subordinate Paige Bueckers and Texas Tech softball pitcher NiJaree Canady. The apical 3 are voted connected by astir 1,000 NCAA schools, with the Honda Cup victor determined by the Collegiate Women's Sports Awards committee of directors.
Walsh led Virginia to the 2025 NCAA women's swimming rubric and won 3 idiosyncratic titles. She is besides the two-time ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for swimming and diving.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Walsh won 2 golden and 2 metallic medals and acceptable 2 satellite records.
"We are incredibly arrogant of her accomplishments some successful the excavation and successful the classroom, and we look guardant to watching her proceed to emergence arsenic she prepares for the World Championships and the 2028 Olympic Games," said Chris Voel, the enforcement manager of the CWSA. "We're thrilled to invited Gretchen to the CWSA family, joining the elite radical of swimmers who person earned this prestigious grant earlier her."
Caitlin Clark won the erstwhile 2 Honda Cups. Previous swimming winners see Jill Sterkel (1981), Tracy Caulkins (1982, 1984), Mary T. Meagher (1987), Cristina Teuscher (2000), Tara Kirk (2004), Missy Franklin (2015), Katie Ledecky (2017), and Manuel (2018).
