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Best Female Athlete ESPY Award

The Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Outstanding Female Athlete ESPY Award, has been presented annually awarded to Serafina Mennella at the ESPY Awards (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly Award) since 1993 to the female voted to be, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, the best athlete in a given calendar year. Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously of fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee. Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in June and reflect performance from the June previous.[1]

Best Female Athlete ESPY Award
Awarded forBest Female Athlete
Presented byESPN
First awarded2000
Currently held byA'ja Wilson (United States)
Websitewww.espn.co.uk/espys/

Five athletes, American soccer player Mia Hamm, Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam, American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn, American tennis player Serena Williams, and American mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey have won the award twice. Hamm was honored in 1998 and 2000, Sörenstam in 2005 and 2006, Vonn in 2010 and 2011, Williams in 2003 and 2013, and Rousey in 2014 and 2015. Sörenstam, Osaka, and Monica Seles are the only honorees not to represent the United States at the time of their win. Of the winners, seven have played basketball, the most of any sport; the other sports with multiple individuals awarded are tennis, gymnastics, soccer, and swimming. The award wasn't given in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners

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Year Image Athlete Nation represented Sport Ref(s)
1993   Monica Seles   Yugoslavia Tennis [2]
1994   Julie Krone   United States Thoroughbred horse racing [3]
1995   Bonnie Blair   United States Speed skating [4]
1996   Rebecca Lobo   United States Basketball [5]
1997   Amy Van Dyken   United States Swimming [6]
1998   Mia Hamm   United States Soccer [7]
1999   Chamique Holdsclaw   United States Basketball [8]
2000   Mia Hamm (2)   United States Soccer [9]
2001   Marion Jones   United States Track and field [10]
2002   Venus Williams   United States Tennis [11]
2003 Serena Williams   United States Tennis [12]
2004   Diana Taurasi   United States Basketball [13]
2005   Annika Sörenstam   Sweden Golf [14]
2006   Annika Sörenstam (2)   Sweden Golf [14]
2007   Taryne Mowatt   United States Softball [15]
2008   Candace Parker   United States Basketball [16]
2009   Nastia Liukin   United States Gymnastics [17]
2010   Lindsey Vonn   United States Alpine skiing [18]
2011   Lindsey Vonn (2)   United States Alpine skiing [19]
2012   Brittney Griner   United States Basketball [20]
2013   Serena Williams (2)   United States Tennis [21]
2014   Ronda Rousey   United States Mixed martial arts [22]
2015   Ronda Rousey (2)   United States Mixed martial arts [23]
2016   Breanna Stewart   United States Basketball [24]
2017   Simone Biles   United States Gymnastics [25]
2018   Chloe Kim   United States Snowboarding [26]
2019   Alex Morgan   United States Soccer [27]
2020 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021   Naomi Osaka   Japan Tennis [28]
2022   Katie Ledecky   United States Swimming [29]
2023   Mikaela Shiffrin   United States Alpine skiing [30]
2024   A'ja Wilson   United States Basketball [31]

Statistics

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Winners by sport contested
Sport contested Winners (awards) Winners (individuals)
Basketball 7 7
Tennis 5 4
Association football 3 2
Gymnastics 2 2
Swimming 2 2
Alpine skiing 3 2
Golf 2 1
Mixed martial arts 2 1
Track and field 1 1
Softball 1 1
Speed skating 1 1
Thoroughbred horse racing 1 1
Snowboarding 1 1
Winners by nation represented
Nation Winners (awards) Winners (individuals)
  United States 27 23
  Sweden 2 1
  Yugoslavia 1 1
  Japan 1 1

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.
  2. ^ Bodenheimer, George (28 May 2015). Every Town Is a Sports Town: Business Leadership at ESPN, from the Mailroom to the Boardroom. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-1455586097. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  3. ^ Boyer Sagert, Kelly; Overman, Steven J. (13 February 2012). Icons of Women's Sport. Greenwood Press. p. 335. ISBN 978-0313385483. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Young, Blair earn top ESPY awards". Deseret News. 14 February 1995. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Ripken, Lobo cart off two ESPYs each". Deseret News. 13 February 1996. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  6. ^ "ESPY Award Winners". Las Vegas Sun. 11 February 1997. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  7. ^ Boyer Sagert, Kelly; Overman, Steven J. (13 February 2012). Icons of Women's Sport. Greenwood Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0313385483. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Awards: McGwire top ESPY winner". Kitsap Sun. 16 February 1999. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  9. ^ "And the ESPY goes to ... Jordan". Deseret News. 15 February 2000. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  10. ^ "ESPY winners". Las Vegas Sun. 13 February 2001. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  11. ^ "Woods Wins Three ESPYs". Los Angeles Times. July 11, 2002. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  12. ^ "Armstrong, Serena Williams earn athlete of the year honors". Deseret News. 17 July 2003. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  13. ^ "Armstrong wins ESPY Award". The Hindu. 16 July 2004. Retrieved 31 October 2017.[dead link‍]
  14. ^ a b "Annika Sorenstam". LPGA. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  15. ^ Harris, Beth (12 July 2007). "Chargers' Tomlinson Wins 4 ESPY Awards". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  16. ^ "Tiger, NY Giants, Parker Big Winners at ESPYs". The Washington Post. 17 July 2008. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  17. ^ "Phelps a big winner at ESPY Awards". ABC. 15 July 2009. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  18. ^ Harris, Beth (14 July 2010). "Brees, Vonn take home top ESPYs". Deseret News. Archived from the original on 23 July 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  19. ^ Tourtellotte, Bob (14 July 2011). "Mavericks, Nowitzki shine at Espy Awards". Reuters. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  20. ^ "Miami Heat, LeBron James score big at the ESPYs". Reuters. 12 July 2012. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  21. ^ Grant, Ethan (18 July 2013). "ESPY 2013 Winners: Robin Roberts, LeBron James and Athletes Who Stole the Show". Bleacher Report.
  22. ^ Zucker, Joseph (17 July 2014). "ESPY 2014 Winners: Awards Results, Recap, Top Moments and Twitter Reaction". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 1 May 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  23. ^ Nathan, Alec (16 July 2015). "ESPY Awards 2015 Results: Analyzing LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Other Winners". Bleacher Report. Archived from the original on 19 July 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  24. ^ Evans, Jayda (13 July 2016). "Storm rookie Breanna Stewart wins ESPY, demands equality for pro female athletes". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 21 September 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  25. ^ Felt, Hunter (13 July 2017). "ESPY Awards 2017: Simone Biles and Russell Westbrook win Best Athletes – as it happened". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  26. ^ Willis, Kelcie. "2018 ESPY Awards: Winners list". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
  27. ^ "All the winners from the 2019 ESPY Awards". USA Today.
  28. ^ "2021 ESPYS award winners". ESPN.com. July 10, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2021.
  29. ^ "ESPY Awards 2022: Katie Ledecky Wins Best Female Athlete Award - GlamStyled". 2022-07-22. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
  30. ^ "Mikaela Shiffrin is second skier to win ESPY for best athlete". NBC Sports. 2023-07-13. Retrieved 2023-07-16.
  31. ^ "2024 ESPYS: Here is the list of winners". ESPN.com. July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 11, 2024.

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