University of Connecticut Athletics
Stewart Selected as 2015 Honda Sports Award winner for Women's Basketball
4/22/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
STORRS, Conn. -- Two weeks after helping the University of Connecticut women's basketball program capture its third NCAA national title in as many years, junior forward Breanna Stewart was selected as the 2015 Honda Sports Award winner for Women's Basketball, as announced by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards on Monday.
The Honda Sports Award is presented annually by the CWSA to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA- sanctioned sports and signifies "the best of the best in collegiate athletics". With this honor, Stewart becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2015 Honda Cup, which will be presented on June 29th in a nationally televised broadcast from Los Angeles, Calif.
Stewart, who received the honor a season ago, becomes the program's 10th winner and joins Maya Moore (2010, 2011) as the only Huskies to win the award on multiple occasions.
The Syracuse, N.Y. native is a two-time consensus First-Team All-American as well as a two-time consensus Player of the Year earning the Naismith, Associated Press, USBWA, and WBCA National Player of the Year honors in the 2014-15 campaign.ÂÂ
On the court, she averaged 17.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game during her junior year and currently stands at No. 10 on the Huskies' all-time scoring list with 1,960 career points.
Stewart, the 2014 Sport Award recipient, was chosen by a vote of administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Finalists included teammate Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, Notre Dame's Jewel Loyd and South Carolina's Tiffany Mitchell.
THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards has honored the nation's top NCAA women athletes for 37 years, recognizing superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service.  Since commencing its sponsorship in 1986, Honda has provided more than $2.7 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women's athletics programs at the institutions.ÂÂ
