Honda Award Winner – Stanford Cardinal

STANFORD, Calif. – Torri Huske has been named the Honda Sport Award winner for Swimming & Diving for the Class of 2026, as introduced at the moment by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of The Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).

Huske was chosen by way of a nationwide vote of directors from over 1,000 NCAA member faculties. The different finalists for this 12 months’s award have been teammate Lucy Bell, Claire Curzan (Virginia), and Sophie Verzyl (South Carolina).

Huske is the eleventh Cardinal to win this award, becoming a member of Simone Manuel (2018), Katie Ledecky (2017), Felicia Lee (2014), Julia Smit (2010), Tara Kirk (2004), Misty Hyman (1998, 2001), Janel Jorgensen (1993), Summer Sanders (1992), Janet Evans (1990), Jenna Johnson (1986, 1989).

A redshirt senior from Arlington, Va., Huske was named the 2026 CSCAA Division I Swimmer of the Year after a standout season for Stanford. She captured three particular person nationwide titles on the NCAA Championships within the 50 freestyle, 100 freestyle, and 100 butterfly, bringing her profession whole to 5.

Huske posted the second-fastest occasions ever by a girl in each the 50 and 100 freestyle this season and is now a 28-time All-American and seven-time program report holder. She helped lead Stanford to a runner-up end on the 2026 NCAA Championships and is a 19-time convention champion throughout the ACC and Pac-12.

A two-time U.S. Olympian, Huske has earned six Olympic medals (three gold, three silver) and 20 World Championship medals. Her success extends to the classroom, the place she earned CSC Academic All-American recognition and CSCAA Scholar All-America honors.

“What a outstanding achievement for Torri to be named the most effective student-athletes within the NCAA,” said Chris Lindauer, the Paul A. Violich Director of Women’s Swimming. “As the most effective swimmers within the historical past of our sport, it was implausible to see Torri wrap up her last faculty season with three particular person NCAA titles. Torri provides it her all daily and is all the time looking for new methods to enhance. Most importantly, her management for our group and our sport as an entire helps elevate and encourage future generations to dream.”

The announcement comes throughout a landmark second for the group, because the CWSA celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in the course of the 2025-26 collegiate athletics season. For 5 many years, the Honda Sport Award has honored the nation’s high ladies athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports activities, symbolizing “the best of the best in collegiate athletics.” Huske is now a finalist for the distinguished Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and Class of 2026 Honda Cup, to be offered reside on Monday, July 27, at 7 p.m. ET on CBS Sports Network.

As the CWSA marks its fiftieth anniversary, the group continues its longstanding mission to honor excellence in athletics, management, lecturers, and group service. Since 1986, Honda has contributed greater than $3.4 million in institutional grants to assist ladies’s athletics applications nationwide.