The Today's Top 10 Award is given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to honor ten former outstanding senior student-athletes. The award was previously known by three different names, each reflecting the number of recipients: Today's Top V Award or the Top Five Award (1973–1985) Today's Top VI Award (1986–1994) Today's Top VIII Award (1995–2013)
Below is a list of the recipients of the Today's Top 10 Award given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since its inception in 1973. The names of these exceptional individuals are engraved in the Hall of Honor at the NCAA Hall of Champions on the NCAA Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recognition in the NCAA Hall of Honor ensures these athletes are remembered. They have reached the pinnacle of national athletic and academic success through their accomplishments. As of 2020, there are more than 480,000 NCAA student-athletes annually. This award recognizes the nation's best former student-athletes from every NCAA sport and division. Each year, the recipients are honored at the NCAA Convention.
Winter/spring sports considered include baseball, basketball, women's beach volleyball, fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, rowing, skiing, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, men's volleyball, women's water polo and wrestling. Fall sports considered include cross country, field hockey, football, soccer, women's indoor volleyball and men's water polo.
List of recipients This is a list of the recipients of the Today's Top 10 Award given each year by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since its inception in 1973. The names of these exceptional individuals are engraved in the Hall of Honor at the NCAA Hall of Champions on the NCAA Headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Recognition in the NCAA Hall of Honor ensures these athletes are remembered. They have reached the pinnacle of national athletic and academic success through their accomplishments. As of 2020, there are more than 480,000 NCAA student-athletes annually. This award recognizes the nation's best former student-athletes from every NCAA sport and division. Each year, the recipients are honored at the NCAA Convention.
2026 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Tennis Yale University Rowing Slippery Rock University Football Franklin Pierce University Soccer Nebraska Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field John Carroll University Football
2025 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Harvard University Skiing University of North Carolina at Charlotte Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field Wartburg College Football Arizona State University Swimming and Diving University of Tennessee Softball University of Georgia Cross Country, Outdoor Track and Field University of Washington Football Auburn University Gymnastics Metropolitan State University of Denver Softball Texas Woman's University Gymnastics
2024 recipients RecipientSchoolSport University of Missouri Basketball University of Georgia Swimming and Diving Stanford University Water Polo Pennsylvania Western University, California Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field Lipscomb University Soccer Worcester Polytechnic Institute Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field University of Tennessee Softball University of Florida Gymnastics Case Western Reserve University Soccer Arizona State University Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field
2023 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Columbia University Fencing North Carolina State University Tennis Stanford University Swimming and Diving Stanford University Soccer Rutgers University Field Hockey Central College Football West Chester University Gymnastics St. John Fisher University Lacrosse Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach Tennis University of Kentucky Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field
2022 recipients RecipientSchoolSport University of Miami Tennis University of Southern California Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field Augustana University Softball University of Notre Dame Fencing Saginaw Valley State University Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field University of Alabama Football Washington University in St. Louis Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field University of Denver Lacrosse Columbia University Tennis Illinois Wesleyan University Basketball
2021 recipients RecipientSchoolSport University of Pennsylvania Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field Washington University in St. Louis Tennis University of Miami Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field University of Texas at Austin Swimming, Diving Duke University Fencing Missouri University of Science and Technology Football University of California, Los Angeles Beach Volleyball Whitworth University Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, Basketball University of Kentucky Swimming, Diving West Chester University of Pennsylvania Rugby
2020 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Baylor University Tennis Columbia University Fencing Duke University Golf West Chester University of Pennsylvania Field hockey Augustana University Football Case Western Reserve University Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field Kenyon College Swimming Vanderbilt University Bowling Nebraska Gymnastics West Virginia University Rifle
2019 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Worcester Polytechnic Institute Basketball, Softball St. Cloud State University Swimming West Virginia University Basketball University of Alabama Swimming Washington University in St. Louis Cross Country, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field University of Florida Gymnastics University of Georgia Track and field Yale University Lacrosse Ohio State University Wrestling Kenyon College Swimming
2018 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Auburn University Softball Saint Leo University Golf Washington University in St. Louis Soccer University of Kentucky Swimming, Diving Texas A&M University, College Station Swimming, Diving Concordia University, St. Paul Volleyball University of Virginia Tennis Stevens Institute of Technology Track and field Washington University in St. Louis Track and field Stanford University Water Polo
2017 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Milwaukee School of Engineering Soccer Emory University Swimming, Diving Northeastern University Ice hockey University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Track and field Lindenwood University Ice hockey Case Western Reserve University Tennis University of Alabama Softball University of South Carolina, Columbia Basketball Mississippi State University Football Ferris State University Football
2016 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Johns Hopkins Swimming, Diving Penn State Wrestling Washington (MO) Cross-country, track and field Clarkson Baseball, basketball Utah Gymnastics Clarion Swimming, Diving Bridgeport Swimming, Diving Kentucky Track and field Florida State Cross-country, track and field South Dakota State Football
2015 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Bentley University Basketball Dartmouth College Cross Country, Track and field Loyola University Lacrosse Grand Valley State University Track and field University of Oklahoma Football University of Alabama Gymnastics Emory University Softball Calvin College Cross Country, Track and field Livingstone College Basketball University of Georgia Swimming
2014 recipients RecipientSchoolSport Arizona Track and field North Carolina Soccer Tennessee Softball Delaware Basketball, volleyball Concordia (St. Paul) Volleyball Alabama Football North Dakota Ice hockey Wisconsin–Stout Cross-country, track and field Clarion Swimming, Diving Nebraska Tennis
Recipients Recipients of the Top 10 Award include many notable athletes in the United States and include John Elway, Steve Young, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Doug Flutie, Tiki Barber, Cheryl Miller, Drew Brees, Kendall Coyne and Elena Delle Donne.
See also List of recipients of Today's Top 10 Award Senior CLASS Award (top student-athletes—in 10 sports—based on community, classroom, character, and competition) NCAA Sportsmanship Award (student-athletes who have demonstrated one or more of the ideals of sportsmanship) NCAA Woman of the Year Award (senior female student-athlete) Walter Byers Scholarship (NCAA) (top male and female scholar-athletes) Silver Anniversary Awards (former student-athletes)
References
External links Today's Top 10 Award — NCAA website