The prestigious Honda Cup winner will be announced live during the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Show presented by Honda on CBS Sports Network on Monday, June 26, at 5:30 pm PT/8:30 pm ET, from the Pauley Pavilion Club Room on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, Calif. The broadcast will honor the 12 Honda Sport Award winners, the DII and DIII Honda Athletes of the Year and the Class of 2023 Honda Inspiration Award winner.
Leading up to the broadcast, the CWSA, in its 47th year of honoring “the best of the best”, will be joined by three guest alumnae, Jill Sterkel (Texas, Swimming & Diving, Class of 1980), Cheryl Miller (Southern California, Basketball, Class of 1984), and Vicki Huber (Villanova, Track & Field, Class of 1989).
"One of the favorite traditions in our Collegiate Women Sports Awards program is the attendance of guest alums for the two-day event and the broadcast,” said Chris Voelz, Executive Director. “It allows us the chance to reach back into our history and bring forward the past greats; to tell their stories and catch up with them. It is also a great opportunity for the Class of 2023 to learn of their place in history and to compare and contrast women in sport then and now . We are thrilled that three Cup winners from the 80’s representing the best in their respective sports and spanning the nation geographically will be with us. All were heralded as Cup winners and all three went on to be Olympians.”
“Welcome back 1981 Cup Winner Jill Sterkel, 1984 Cup Winner Cheryl Miller and 1989 Cup Winner Vicki Huber !”
More on our guest alumnae and past Honda Cup Winners:
Jill Sterkel, Texas- 1981 Honda Cup Winner
Twitter: @jasterkel
National Championships: 2 national championships (50-year butterfly, 100-yard butterfly)
Olympic Participation: 1976, 1980 (boycotted), 1984, 1988
Medals: 2 gold, 2 bronze
Current Profession: Co-Executive Director at the University of Texas T-Association
MISC.: Won the NCAA national championships in 50-yard butterfly (24.26 seconds) and 100-yard butterfly (53.54 seconds… won back-to-back Honda Sports Awards for Swimming and Diving, recognizing her as the outstanding college female swimmer of 1979–80 and 1980–81…represented the United States in three Summer Olympics…as a 15-year-old at the 1976 Summer Olympics, won a gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the women's 4×100-meter freestyle relay…after the U.S. women's team had been outshone in nearly every event by their East German rivals, Peyton, Boglioli, Sterkel and Babashoff achieved a moral victory by not only winning the relay gold medal, but also by breaking the East Germans' world record in the event final…qualified again for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials ( American-led boycott)…at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, she swam for the gold medal-winning U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the women's 4×100-meter freestyle…as a 27-year-old at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, she again swam for the U.S. team in the preliminary heats of the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and earned a bronze medal for the team's third-place finish…also competed individually in the 50-meter freestyle, tying for third and earning a bronze medal.
Cheryl Miller, Basketball, USC- 1984 Co-Honda Cup Winner
Twitter: @Cheryl_Miller31
National Championships: 1983, 1984
Olympic Participation: 1984 (Gold)
All-America Titles: Four-time All-American
Current Profession: Head Coach of the Cal State Los Angeles Women’s Basketball Team
MISC.: First player to advance the game of women’s basketball with her superior leaping ability…set the single game record of 105 pts. in a 1982 game playing for Riverside (CA) Polytechnic High School against Notre Vista High School… led USC to consecutive national titles in 1983 and 1984… led the U.S. women to their first Olympic gold medal in 1984... earned All-America honors four consecutive years… was the national college player of the year during her last three years at USC... the first athlete to have her number retired by USC... voted ESPN Woman Athlete of the Year in 1985… the first woman basketball player to be nominated for the prestigious Sullivan Award (1985-86)… named the best male or female player in college basketball by Sports Illustrated in 1986... scored 3,018 total career points... named Naismith Player of the Year three times (1984-1986), earned the Wade Trophy once… served as head coach at USC for two seasons starting in 1993… worked as a broadcaster for ABC... joined Turner Sports as an analyst and reporter for NBA coverage on TNT and TBS in 1995... one of only 11 women who have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1995)… became the first female analyst to work on a nationally televised NBA game in November 1996… commissioner of the 1985 Los Angeles Olympic Committee Summer Youth Games…spokesperson for the Los Angeles Literacy Campaign, the American Lung, Diabetes and Cancer Associations and Muscular Dystrophy Association (1985-1986).
Vicki Huber Radawsky, Track & Field, Villanova- 1989 Honda Cup Winner
National Championships: Eight individual titles (Indoor & Outdoor Track)
Olympic Participation: 1988, 1996
All-America Titles: eight-time All-American
Current Profession: Head Coach of the Sun Valley High School Track & Field Team
MISC.: Inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame in 2022… eight-time NCAA Individual Champion in Cross Country and Indoor & Outdoor Track…finished sixth in the 3000 meters overall at the Seoul Olympic games in 1988… in the last race of her collegiate career, Huber won the NCAA cross country championship and led Villanova to a team title…qualified for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics in the 1500 meters but failed to qualify for the semifinals due to injury.
The CWSA Sports Awards Presented by Honda broadcast will be re-aired on CBS Sports on June 26 (12:00 am ET), June 27 (10:30 AM ET, 6:30 PM ET), June 28 (4:30 PM ET) and July 1 (8:00 AM ET).
The CWSA, entering its 47th year, has honored the nation’s top NCAA women athletes for their superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. Since commencing its partnership in 1986, Honda has provided more than $3.4 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women’s athletics programs.
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