Honor Award Recipients
The Honor Award recognizes individuals and/or entities that have exemplified outstanding support of women in athletics and their success.
2017: Dr. Pat Griffin
2015: Sheila Johnson
2013: Anita DeFrantz
2011: 1999 U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team
2010: Dr. Myles Brand, Former President, NCAA (posthumously)
2009: NIKE, represented by Kit Morris and JoAn Scott
2008: National Women’s Law Center, represented by Dina Lassow
2007: Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Attorney & Professor, Florida Coastal School of Law
2006: Irv & Tora Grossman, Founders of The Collegiate Women’s Sports Award (Honda Awards)
2005: Christine Brennan, USA Today
2004: Althea Gibson (posthumously)
2003: Barbara Jordan (posthumously)
2002: Billie Jean King
2001: NACWAA Foundation Fund Donors
2000: Robin Roberts, ESPN/ABC Sports
1999: National Association for Girls & Women in Sports (NAGWAS)
1998: Donna Lopiano, Women’s Sports Foundation
1997: Birch Bayh, former Senator from Indiana who wrote the language of Title IX in 1972
1996: Norma Cantú, Office for Civil Rights
1995: State Farm Insurance Companies
1994: Sara Lee Corporation
1993: National Women’s Law Center, represented by Marcia Greenberger
1992: The Dial Corporation
1991: Anita L. DeFrantz
1990: Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter
1989: Founding Board members of the CCWAA
1988: Rollin Haffer and Sue Durrant
1987: Members of the House of Representatives who signed the Civil Rights Restoration Act, represented by Claudine Schneider
1986: USA Today
1985: Eastman Kodak
1984: Broderick Company