BATON ROUGE — Seimone Augustus, the consensus National Player of the Year for women’s basketball this year, picked up another honor on Wednesday by being voted the nation’s top collegiate female basketball player by the Collegiate Women Sports Awards program sponsored by Honda.
The honor was based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA member schools. The top female athlete from the 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports also receive the Honda Award and are finalists for the Honda-Broderick Cup, an award given to the nation’s top collegiate athlete.
Augustus, a 6-1 junior on the 2004-05 LSU Lady Tigers basketball team, has also received the John R. Wooden Award, the State Farm Wade Trophy, the Naismith Award and the National Player of the Year honors from the Associated Press and the United States Basketball Writers Association. Augustus finished the year averaging 20.1 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.
She helped lead the Lady Tigers to a 33-3 overall record, a second straight trip to the NCAA Final Four and the school’s first Southeastern Conference regular season title.
Augustus received the honor over Notre Dame’s Jacqueline Batteast, Duke’s Monique Currie and Ohio State’s Jessica Davenport. The candidates were selected by the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association.
Other Honda Award winners already announced include Stanford’s Ogonna Nnamani for volleyball, Wake Forest’s Kelly Dostal for field hockey, Santa Clara’s Leslie Osborne for soccer, Providence’s Kim Smith for cross-country and Auburn’s Kirsty Coventry for swimming. Athletes voted the most outstanding in golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, softball, tennis and track & field will be named in the coming months.
The Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year will be determined by separate balloting involving all NCAA-member institutions and the winner will receive the Honda-Broderick Cup in New York on June 29.