The biggest names in sports and entertainment came together Thursday night to honor the year’s best, most influential and inspirational athletes 2024 ESPY Awards.
Once again this year at the massive show at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, sports stars include Olympian Simone Bilesbasketball stars Jaylen Brown and Kaitlin Clark, tennis professional Coco Gauff, Super Bowl Champion Patrick Mahomes and MLB’s Shohei Ohtani are among the top nominees for this year’s big awards show.
In addition, this year’s ESPYs also presented the traditional triple honors to special honorees, including the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, Jimmy V. Perseverance Award and Pat Tillman Service Award.
Former NFL pro Steve Gleason was awarded the Arthur Ashe Award for his work raising awareness about ALS, while University of South Carolina women’s basketball head coach Dawn Staley was awarded the Jimmy V Award . at the same time, Prince Harry wins Pat Tillman Award In recognition of his efforts to help veterans through the Invincible Games movement.
So who walked away with a moment of victory and glory? Check out the full list of the night’s big winners below (marked in bold)!
Best Men’s Sports Athlete
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs — **winner!
Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels/Los Angeles Dodgers
Scottie Scheffler, golf
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers
Best Athlete in Women’s Sports
Caitlin Clark, Iowa State women’s basketball
Coco Gauff, Tennis
Nellie Korda, golf
A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces — **winner!
Best Breakthrough Athlete
Halle Bryant, LSU Gymnastics
CJ Stroud, Houston Texans
Juju Watkins, USC women’s basketball — **winner!
Victor Vunbanyama, San Antonio Spurs
Best record-breaking performance
49ers’ Christian McCaffrey scores touchdown in 17th straight game, breaking record
Caitlin Clark becomes NCAA’s all-time scoring leader, breaking Pete Maravich’s record — **winner!
Tara VanDerveer, Stanford Women’s Basketball – Wins No. 1,203, surpassing Coach K as winningest coach in NCAA basketball history
Max Verstappen wins Italian Grand Prix for record 10th consecutive race win
Best tournament performance
Michigan’s Blake Corum and Will Johnson named 2024 College Football National Championship MVPs
Kayla Martello, Boston College Women’s Lacrosse
Midge Purce, New Jersey/New York Gotham FC – NWSL Championship MVP
Jaylen Brown, Boston Celtics — **winner!
Best comeback athlete
Simone Biles, gymnast — **winner!
Paige Bueckers, University of Connecticut Women’s Basketball
Joe Flacco, Cleveland Browns
Zion Williamson, New Orleans Pelicans
best play
Jayda Coleman calls game to give Oklahoma fourth straight title – NCAA Softball 6/4/2024
Anthony Edwards Slam Dunk of the Year – 3/18/24 – NBA
Alabama scores on 4th and 31 to win 11/25/23 vs. Auburn
Lamar Jackson catches his own pass and runs – 1/28/24 – NFL — **winner!
best team
South Carolina Gamecocks, NCAA Women’s Basketball — **winner!
Kansas City Chiefs, NFL
Michigan Badgers, NCAA Football
Las Vegas Aces, WNBA
University of Connecticut Huskies, NCAA Men’s Basketball Team
Oklahoma Sooners, NCAA Softball
Boston Celtics, NBA
Florida Panthers, NHL
Texas Rangers, Major League Baseball
Best College Athlete in Men’s Sports
Jayden Daniels, LSU football team — **winner!
Zach Eddy, Purdue University Men’s Basketball Team
Osman Silas, Clemson Football Club
Pat Kavanagh, Notre Dame Hockey
Best College Athlete in Women’s Sports
Halle Bryant, LSU Gymnastics
Caitlin Clark, Iowa basketball — **winner!
Sarah Franklin, Wisconsin volleyball team
Izzy Scane, Northwest Lacrosse
Best Paraathlete
Jadine Blackwell sprint world champion
Ezra Frech, high jump world champion
Brenna Huckaby Snowboard Champion — **winner!
Oksana Masters, cross-country skier/manual cyclist
Best NFL Player
Myles Garrett, Cleveland Browns
Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chiefs — **winner!
Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers
Best MLB Player
Ronald Coyne Jr., Atlanta Braves
Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees
Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels — **winner!
Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
Best NHL Player
Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche
Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers
Best NBA Player
Luka Doncic, Dallas Mavericks — **winner!
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder
Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets
Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
Best WNBA Player
Nafisa Collier, Minnesota Lynx
Brianna Stewart, New York Free Press
Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut Sun
A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces — **winner!
best driver
Ryan Blaney, NASCAR
Matt Hagen, NHRA
Alex Palu, IndyCar
Max Verstappen, F1 — **winner!
Best UFC fighter
Islam Makhachev
Sean O’Malley
Alex Pereira
Zhang Weili
best boxer
Terrence Crawford
Senisa Estrada
Naoya Inoue
Alexander Usyk
best football player
Aitana Bonmati, Spain
Naomi Gilma, U.S. Women’s National Team
Vinicius Junior, Brazil/Real Madrid
Kylian Mbappe, France/Real Madrid
best golfer
Nellie Korda
Xander Schauffele
Scotty Scheffler
Lilia Vu
best tennis player
Carlos Alcaraz
Novak Djokovic
coco goff
Iga Swiatek
The 2024 ESPYS will air live on ABC on Thursday, July 11 at 8pm ET, hosted by Serena Williams.
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