Continuing Her Collegiate Legacy at Iowa, Caitlin Clark Wins the 2024 Honda Cup Award

Despite becoming one of the most popular WNBA players this season, Caitlin Clark continues spreading her magic at Iowa. The former Iowa Hawkeyes has been named the 2024 Honda Cup Award winner. This is the second time Clark has won this award. For the past 48 years, the CWSA (Collegiate Women’s Sports Awards) has presented this honor to the finest female athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports. The award recognizes the top performers in collegiate athletics.

As for Clark, her name is ever-shining in the record books that she wrote herself as she is the fourth woman ever to win the Honda Cups twice.

Caitlin Clark maintaining her Collegiate legacy

When Clark was asked about the importance of this achievement and her collegiate legacy, she said on CBS Sports, “I know how important this award is and how many great people have come before me like Maya Moore, who was my idol growing up. So, now to be on the same list as her is like pretty absolutely incredible.”

Clark has now joined her idol, Maya Moore who won the Honda Sports Award twice in 2010 and 2011. The other two athletes to win this award multiple times are Tracy Caulkins (1982 and 1984), and Rachel Garcia (2019 and 2021).

The award was received by Clark’s former coach Lisa Bluder on her behalf, whom she acknowledged in her speech while she expressed gratitude for her former Hawkeyes teammates. She said, “Obviously, my coaches are there tonight accepting the award on my behalf, and the teammates I had through the years, they kind of let me be myself and also I wouldn’t have got to the point I got to if it wasn’t for them.” Moreover, she wished all the finalists well and gave her best to them for reaching up to this level.

It was an astonishing feat achieved by Caitlin Clark to lead the offensive forefront as a college basketball senior at the time. Numbers don’t lie as she touched the 480 career points mark in the 2024 March Madness with a deep 3-pointer in the first quarter of the national championship game against the South Carolina Gamecocks and broke the NCAA Tournament record. It was previously being held by 6x WNBA All-Star Chamique Holdsclaw, with 479 points.

More about this year’s Award Ceremony

Keeping up with their 38-year relationship with the CWSA, Honda again played the role of a proud sponsor of the Collegiate Women’s Sports Awards and presented the esteemed Honda Cup to Clark.

During the ceremony, CWSA’s Executive Director Chris Voelz acknowledged Clark’s achievements and welcomed her on becoming part of the CWSA sisterhood of College athletics. She said, “In our 48-year history, only a handful of athletes have won the Honda Cup twice. Just as she achieved numerous historical firsts in her senior year, Caitlin Clark makes history with us as the fourth two-time Cup winner and only the second to win it back-to-back.”

The CWSA award ceremony was extra special as it was broadcast on CBS Sports Network in their New York City studios for the first time. For the past 12 years, it has been held on the West Coast in Los Angeles. And Honda as an automobile company has been dedicated and committed to making positive contributions to the communities.

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