STORRS, Conn. – UConn women's basketball alumna Paige Bueckers was named the 2025 Honda Sport Award winner for women's basketball, as announced Monday by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards.

The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 49 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, signifying "the best of the best in collegiate athletics." The recipient of the sport award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2025 Honda Cup, which will be presented during a live telecast on CBS Sports Network on June 30, at 7 pm ET, in New York City.

Bueckers capped her collegiate career by leading the Huskies to the 2025 NCAA Championship. In her four seasons playing at UConn, Bueckers took the Huskies to four Final Fours, two National Championship game appearances and eight BIG EAST titles.

The Hopkins, Minn., native is UConn's leader in career scoring average (19.8 points per game) and ranks No. 3 in career points (2,439).

This is the 13^th time a Husky has earned the Honda Sport Award for basketball: Rebecca Lobo (1995), Jennifer Rizzotti (1996), Shea Ralph (2000), Sue Bird (2002), Diana Taurasi (2003, '04), Renee Montgomery (2009), Maya Moore (2009, '10), Breanna Stewart (2014, '15, '16) and Bueckers (2025).

In her final season in 2024-25, Bueckers led the Huskies with 19.9 points on a .534/.419/.889 shooting split. She also led UConn with 4.6 assists per game and posted a 3.52 assist-turnover ratio, the highest single-season total by a Husky.

Bueckers has been a record setter since arriving to Storrs in 2020. She became the first-ever freshman to earn the Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy, AP National Player of the Year and USBWA National Player of the Year in 2021.

As the 2025 Honda Award and Wade Trophy winner, Bueckers has won every major collegiate national player of the year award.

Bueckers was a three-time BIG EAST Player of the Year and the first-ever three-time BIG EAST Tournament Most Outstanding Player. She was also a three-time All-BIG EAST First Team selection.

Bueckers graduated in May 2024 with a degree in human development and family sciences.

Bueckers was selected with the No. 1 pick in the 2025 WNBA Draft by the Dallas Wings.