Alabama’s Montana Fouts Named Finalist for Honda Sport Award for Softball
6/4/2021 4:12:00 PM | Softball
The winner will be announced next week with the award presented on June 28
OKLAHOMA CITY – Alabama's Montana Fouts has been named one of four finalists for the 2021 Honda Sport Award for Softball.
The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 45 years to the top woman athlete in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports and signifies "the best of the best in collegiate athletics". The winner of the sport award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2021 Honda Cup which will be presented June 28 at 8 p.m. CT on CBS Sports Network.
Fouts is joined by UCLA's Rachel Garcia, Arizona's Dejah Mulipola and Iowa State's Sami Williams. The softball finalists were chosen by a panel of coaches representing the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA). The Honda Sport Award winner for softball will be announced next week after voting by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Each NCAA member institution has a vote.
Alabama athletes have previously won 11 Honda Awards, including cross country's Mercy Chelangat earlier this season. Other Crimson Tide Honda Award winners include gymnasts Penney Hauschild (1985-86), Dee Foster (1993), Andree Pickens (2002), Jeana Rice (2004), Ashley Miles (2006), Kayla Hoffman (2011) and Kim Jacob (2014) along with golfers Brooke Pancake (2012) and Emma Talley (2015). Jacob would go on to earn the Crimson Tide's first Honda Cup in 2014.
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