CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – After main Florida State to its third nationwide championship within the final 5 seasons, junior ahead Jordynn Dudley has been named the Honda Sport Award winner for soccer for the Class of 2026, as introduced at present by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of The Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).
Dudley closed the 2025 marketing campaign with 11 targets and 14 assists, as her team-best 36 factors ranked seventh within the ACC. The Milton, Georgia, native registered three multi-goal performances this season, together with two targets and an help to guide the Seminoles previous Ohio State within the nationwide quarterfinals to ship FSU again to the Women’s College Cup.
The announcement comes throughout a landmark second for the group, because the CWSA celebrates its fiftieth anniversary throughout the 2025–26 collegiate athletics season. For 5 many years, the Honda Sport Award has honored the nation’s prime girls athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports activities, symbolizing “the best of the best in collegiate athletics.” Dudley is now a finalist for the celebrated Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and Class of 2026 Honda Cup, to be introduced stay on Monday, July 27, at 7 p.m. ET on CBS Sports Network.
Dudley was chosen through a nationwide vote of directors from greater than 1,000 NCAA member faculties. The different finalists for this 12 months’s award have been Jasmine Aikey (Stanford), Seven Castain (TCU) and Izzy Engle (Notre Dame).
Dudley is the sixteenth Honda Sports Award winner for soccer from the ACC and the twenty first amongst present ACC members. The 16 awards are probably the most amongst all conferences. Players from the ACC have received 4 of the final 5 honors, together with Florida State’s Jaelin Howell and Onyi Echegini in 2021-22 and 2023-24, respectively, and North Carolina’s Kate Faasse a season in the past. Dudley is the fifth Honda Sports Award winner for soccer in program historical past.
Previous Honda Sports Award Winners for Soccer from the ACC
1989-90: Shannon Higgins, North Carolina
1991-92: Kristine Lilly, North Carolina
1992-93: Mia Hamm, North Carolina
1993-94: Mia Hamm, North Carolina
1996-97: Cindy Daws, Notre Dame*
1999-00: Lorrie Fair, North Carolina
2000-01: Meredith Florance, North Carolina
2003-04: Catherine Reddick, North Carolina
2006-07: Heather O’Reilly, North Carolina
2008-09: Casey Nogueira, North Carolina
2009-10: Whitney Engen, North Carolina
2010-11: Melissa Henderson, Notre Dame*
2011-12: Teresa Noyola, Stanford**
2012-13: Crystal Dunn, North Carolina
2017-18: Andi Sullivan, Stanford**
2018-19: Natalia Kuikka, Florida State
2019-20: Catarina Macario, Stanford**
2021-22: Jaelin Howell, Florida State
2023-24: Onyi Echegini, Florida State
2024-25: Kate Faasse, North Carolina
2025-26: Jordynn Dudley, Florida State
* Notre Dame joined the ACC previous to the 2013 season
** Stanford joined the ACC previous to the 2024 season