Best Female Athlete ESPY Award

Best Female Athlete ESPY Award

The Best Female Athlete ESPY Award, known alternatively as the Outstanding Female Athlete ESPY Award, has been presented annually since 1993 to the female, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to be the best athlete in a given calendar year.

Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously 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 [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.] .

List of winners

Two athletes, American football (soccer) player Mia Hamm and Swedish golfer Annika Sörenstam, have won the award twice; Hamm was honored in 1998 and 2000 and Sörenstam was honored in 2005 and 2006.

ee also

*Associated Press Athlete of the Year
*Best Male Athlete ESPY Award
*Laureus World Sports Award for Sportswoman of the Year
*"L'Équipe" Champion of Champions Award
*"Sports Illustrated" Sportsman of the Year
*United Press International Athlete of the Year Award

Notes

References

* [http://www.hickoksports.com/history/espyawrd.shtml#outstfem Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com]


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