Today's Top 10 Award
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The Today's Top 10 Award is given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to honor ten former outstanding senior student-athletes.[1] The award was previously known by three different names, each reflecting the number of recipients:
- Today's Top V Award or the Top Five Award (1973–1985)
- Today's Top VI Award (1986–1994)
- Today's Top VIII Award (1995–2013)
Below is a list of the recipients of the Today's Top 10 Award given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since its inception in 1973. The names of these exceptional individuals are engraved in the Hall of Honor at the NCAA Hall of Champions on the NCAA Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recognition in the NCAA Hall of Honor ensures these athletes are remembered. They have reached the pinnacle of national athletic and academic success through their accomplishments. As of 2020, there are more than 480,000 NCAA student-athletes annually. This award recognizes the nation's best former student-athletes from every NCAA sport and division. Each year, the recipients are honored at the NCAA Convention.
Winter/spring sports considered include baseball, basketball, women's beach volleyball, fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing, skiing, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, men's volleyball, women's water polo and wrestling. Fall sports considered include cross country, field hockey, football, soccer, women's indoor volleyball and men's water polo.
List of recipients
This is a list of the recipients of the Today's Top 10 Award given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since its inception in 1973. The names of these exceptional individuals are engraved in the Hall of Honor at the NCAA Hall of Champions on the NCAA Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recognition in the NCAA Hall of Honor ensures these athletes are remembered. They have reached the pinnacle of national athletic and academic success through their accomplishments. As of 2020, there are more than 480,000 NCAA student-athletes annually. This award recognizes the nation's best former student-athletes from every NCAA sport and division. Each year, the recipients are honored at the NCAA Convention.
2025 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Harvard University | Skiing |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Wartburg College | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Arizona State University | Swimming and Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Tennessee | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Georgia | Cross Country, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Washington | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Auburn University | Gymnastics |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Metropolitan State University of Denver | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Texas Woman's University | Gymnastics |
2024 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Missouri | Basketball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Georgia | Swimming and Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stanford University | Water Polo |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania Western University, California | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Lipscomb University | Soccer |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Tennessee | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Florida | Gymnastics |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Case Western Reserve University | Soccer |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Arizona State University | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
2023 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Columbia University | Fencing |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | North Carolina State University | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stanford University | Swimming and Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stanford University | Soccer |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Rutgers University | Field Hockey |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Central College | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | West Chester University | Gymnastics |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | St. John Fisher University | Lacrosse |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Kentucky | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
2022 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Miami | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Southern California | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Augustana University | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Notre Dame | Fencing |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Saginaw Valley State University | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Alabama | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Washington University in St. Louis | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Denver | Lacrosse |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Columbia University | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Illinois Wesleyan University | Basketball |
2021 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Pennsylvania | Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Washington University in St. Louis | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Miami | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Texas at Austin | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Duke University | Fencing |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missouri University of Science and Technology | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of California, Los Angeles | Beach Volleyball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Whitworth University | Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, Basketball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Kentucky | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | Rugby |
2020 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Baylor University | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Columbia University | Fencing |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Duke University | Golf |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | West Chester University of Pennsylvania | Field hockey |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Augustana University | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Case Western Reserve University | Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kenyon College | Swimming |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Vanderbilt University | Bowling |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Nebraska, Lincoln | Gymnastics |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | West Virginia University | Rifle |
2019 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Basketball, Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | St. Cloud State University | Swimming |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | West Virginia University | Basketball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Alabama | Swimming |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Washington University in St. Louis | Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Florida | Gymnastics |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Georgia | Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Yale University | Lacrosse |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ohio State University | Wrestling |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kenyon College | Swimming |
2018 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Auburn University | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Saint Leo University | Golf |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Washington University in St. Louis | Soccer |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Kentucky | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Texas A&M University, College Station | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Concordia University, St. Paul | Volleyball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Virginia | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stevens Institute of Technology | Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Washington University in St. Louis | Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Stanford University | Water Polo |
2017 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Milwaukee School of Engineering | Soccer |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Emory University | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Northeastern University | Ice hockey |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Arkansas, Fayetteville | Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Lindenwood University | Ice hockey |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Case Western Reserve University | Tennis |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Alabama | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of South Carolina, Columbia | Basketball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Mississippi State University | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ferris State University | Football |
2016 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Johns Hopkins | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Penn State | Wrestling |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Washington (MO) | Cross-country, track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Clarkson | Baseball, basketball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Utah | Gymnastics |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Clarion | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Bridgeport | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kentucky | Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Florida State | Cross-country, track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | South Dakota State | Football |
2015 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Bentley University | Basketball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Dartmouth College | Cross Country, Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Loyola University | Lacrosse |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Grand Valley State University | Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Oklahoma | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Alabama | Gymnastics |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Emory University | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Calvin College | Cross Country, Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Livingstone College | Basketball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | University of Georgia | Swimming |
2014 recipients
| Recipient | School | Sport |
|---|---|---|
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Arizona | Track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | North Carolina | Soccer |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Tennessee | Softball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Delaware | Basketball, volleyball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Concordia (St. Paul) | Volleyball |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Alabama | Football |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | North Dakota | Ice hockey |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Wisconsin–Stout | Cross-country, track and field |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Clarion | Swimming, Diving |
| Script error: No such module "Sort". | Nebraska | Tennis |
Recipients
Recipients of the Top 10 Award include many notable athletes in the United States and include John Elway, Steve Young, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Doug Flutie, Tiki Barber, Cheryl Miller, Drew Brees, Kendall Coyne and Elena Delle Donne.
See also
- List of recipients of Today's Top 10 Award
- Senior CLASS Award (top student-athletes—in 10 sports—based on community, classroom, character, and competition)
- NCAA Sportsmanship Award (student-athletes who have demonstrated one or more of the ideals of sportsmanship)
- NCAA Woman of the Year Award (senior female student-athlete)
- Walter Byers Scholarship (NCAA) (top male and female scholar-athletes)
- Silver Anniversary Awards (former student-athletes)
References
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External links
- Today's Top 10 Award — NCAA website