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Montana Fouts wins Honda Sport Award as softball’s top player, first Alabama recipient
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Montana Fouts has won the Honda Sport Award from the Collegiate Women’s Sports Awards, the first softball recipient of the award in Alabama’s history.
The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 47 years to the top women athletes across 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, signifying “the best of the best” in college athletics. The individual sport award winners become finalists for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2023 Honda Cup, which will be presented live on CBS Sports Network on June 26 at 4:30 p.m. CT.
Fouts is Alabama’s 12th Honda Sport Award recipient. Past winners include cross country runner Mercy Chelangat (2021); gymnasts Penney Hauschild (1985-86), Dee Foster (1993), Andree Pickens (2002), Jeana Rice (2004), Ashley Miles (2006), Kayla Hoffman (2011), and Kim Jacob (2014); and golfers Brooke Pancake (2012) and Emma Talley (2015). Jacob is Alabama’s only Honda Cup winner in 2014.
So far, the CWSA has revealed 9 of its 12 2023 honorees. Honorees have yet to be announced for lacrosse, tennis, and track and field. Three finalists for the Honda Cup will be selected from the 12 award winners.
“I am so honored to be the recipient of this year’s Honda Sport Award,” Fouts said in a release. “I want to thank the committee who chose me to represent the sport of softball and express how grateful I am to be chosen. I certainly wouldn’t be where I am today without my amazing support system.
“I want to thank Coach Murphy and the rest of our coaching and support staff for allowing me to live out my dream and creating this family for me the past five years that will have a piece of my heart forever. I would like to thank my family for all of the sacrifices they have made along the way to allow me to play the sport I love while being my rock. To my teammates who have my back on and off the field and made me fall in love with softball all over again, they are the real rockstars. I am so grateful for this platform softball has given me and I am honored to represent my home, The University of Alabama. Giving God all of the glory, Roll Tide.”
Fouts is a 4-time NFCA All-American and was named the NFCA Pitcher of the Year in 2021.
This season, she went 25-11 in her 44 appearances. She recorded 323 strikeouts to bring her career total to 1,181. She ranks second all-time in program history for strikeouts and is 1 of only 4 pitchers in program history to reach 100 career wins.
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