The 2024 ESPY Awards (Excellence in Sports Performance Yearly) will air in just two weeks, and WNBA star Caitlin Clark is leading the way among all athletes with three nominations.
Clark has been nominated in the categories of Best Athlete, Women’s Sports; Best College Athlete, Women’s Sports; and Best Record-Breaking Performance.
Which record-breaking performance? The former Iowa Hawkeye became the NCAA all-time leading scorer, passing ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich, in early March.
Clark leads the way with her three individual nominations. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani earned two nominations each.
Caitlin Clark Leads The Way At The ESPYs
The ESPY Awards, hosted by Serena Williams, will take place on July 11th. Fans can vote for their favorite nominees until the day of the event.
Besides Caitlin Clark, other women nominated in the category of Best College Athlete include LSU gymnast Haleigh Bryant, Wisconsin volleyball player Sarah Franklin, and Northwestern lacrosse player Izzy Scane.
Other nominees for the Best Athlete in Women’s Sports include tennis star Coco Gauff, current number one golfer in the world Nelly Korda, and fellow WNBA star A’ja Wilson of the Las Vegas Aces.
Gymnast Simone Biles earned a nomination for Best Comeback Athlete. It’s hard to imagine that between Biles and Clark, only one of these women will represent the United States in the Paris Olympic Games.
Both are deserving.
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More Flowers For Caitlin
Caitlin Clark isn’t just getting showered in love with the ESPY Awards nominations. On Wednesday, the former Iowa Hawkeyes and current Indiana Fever basketball star was awarded the prestigious Honda Cup.
It is Clark’s second consecutive Honda Cup award. Just three other female athletes have been awarded the honor twice.
ESPN has described the WNBA rookie guard as having an “historic final year at Iowa.”
She led the nation in scoring and carried the Hawkeyes to their second straight Final Four.
During her final season, Clark broke the women’s scoring record and all-time NCAA scoring record, capping it off with her passing Pete Maravich’s 54-year-old record of 3,667 career points in her last regular season home game.
Maravich scored his points in just 83 games over three seasons at LSU (1967-70). Clark passed the mark in her 130th game.
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