The 2025 ESPY Awards honored the perfect of the perfect in sports activities on Wednesday in Los Angeles with the thirty third version of ESPN‘s annual awards present.
Hosted by Shane Gillis on the Dolby Theatre, Philadelphia Eagles star operating again Saquon Barkley led the nominations with three classes, adopted by Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani, NFL MVP Josh Allen, Gilgeous-Alexander of the newly topped NBA champs Oklahoma Metropolis, U.S. Olympic gymnast Simone Biles, and the WNBA’s Caitlin Clark and A’ja Wilson, every with two nods.
Additionally honored had been former WNBA participant Diana Taurasi and former USWNT participant Alex Morgan with the celebrated Icon Award, in addition to former NBA participant Oscar Robertson with the Arthur Ashe Award for Braveness, Penn State College ladies’s volleyball head coach Katie Schumacher-Cawley with the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance, and Sloane Stephens with the Muhammad Ali Sports activities Humanitarian Award.
Better Los Angeles first responders and former athletes David Walters and Erin Regan had been offered with the Pat Tillman Award for Service. Moreover, the Sports activities Humanitarian Awards acknowledged honorees at this yr’s present, together with the recipient of the Muhammad Ali Sports activities Humanitarian Award and the Billie Jean King Youth Management Award.
After airing reside Wednesday on ABC and ESPN+, the 2025 ESPYS can be obtainable to stream the following day on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+.
Listed here are the winners of the 2025 ESPY Awards.
Finest Athlete – Males’s Sports activities
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander – Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
Finest Athlete – Girls’s Sports activities
Simone Biles – Gymnast
Finest Breakthrough Athlete
Ilona Maher – Rugby
Finest File-Breaking Efficiency
Alexander Ovechkin – Washington Capitals
Finest Championship Efficiency
Simone Biles – 2024 Olympics Girls’s All-Round
Finest Comeback Athlete
Suni Lee – Gymnast
Finest Play
Saquon Barkley’s backwards hurdle – NFL (11/3/24)
Finest Staff
Philadelphia Eagles – NFL
Finest School Athlete – Males’s Sports activities
Cooper Flagg – Duke Basketball
Finest School Athlete – Girls’s Sports activities
JuJu Watkins – USC Basketball
Finest Athlete with a Incapacity
Noah Elliott – Snowboard
Finest NFL Participant
Saquon Barkley – Philadelphia Eagles
Finest MLB Participant
Shohei Ohtani – Los Angeles Dodgers
Finest NHL Participant
Leon Draisaitl – Edmonton Oilers,
Finest NBA Participant
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander – Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
Finest WNBA Participant
Caitlin Clark – Indiana Fever
Finest Driver
Max Verstappen – F1
Finest UFC Fighter
Merab Dvalishvili
Finest Boxer
Katie Taylor
Finest Soccer Participant
Christian Pulisic – AC Milan, US
Finest Golfer
Scottie Scheffler
Finest Tennis Participant
Coco Gauff
