ESPN has introduced the nominees for the 2024 ESPYS offered by Capital One, which features a record of excellent athletes from basketball, soccer, baseball, golf, NASCAR, gymnastics, UFC and extra.
The celebrated occasion, hosted by Serena Williams, will honor Patrick Mahomes, Caitlin Clark, A’ja Wilson, Jr. Prime athletes and sports activities performances of the 12 months from fan favorites like Juju Watkins, Simone Biles and extra.
For Clark, she topped the record with nominations for Finest Ladies’s Sports activities Athlete, Finest Faculty Ladies’s Sports activities Athlete and Finest Document-Breaking Efficiency. A’ja Wilson can be up for Finest Ladies’s Sports activities Athlete and Finest WNBA Participant – and her crew, the Las Vegas Aces, can be nominated for Finest Workforce.
Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever towards the Las Vegas Aces in the course of the first interval of a recreation at Michelob ULTRA Area on Could 25, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada No. 22 A’ja Wilson.
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Main the nominations are Patrick Mahomes, who’s vying for Males’s Sports activities Athlete of the Yr and Finest NFL Participant of the Yr, along with his Kansas Metropolis Chiefs crew additionally vying for nominations. Shohei Ohtani can be competing for a similar awards, besides within the Finest MLB Participant class. Since each athletes have beforehand received the award, one will be a part of LeBron James, Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods as the one athletes to win the award a number of instances.
Different notable nominees embody gymnast Simone Biles, NBA participant Jaylen Brown, tennis participant Coco Gauff, WNBA participant JuJu Watkins, and extra.
Fan voting will proceed till July 11 at 5pm ET, adopted by the winners being introduced dwell on ABC at 8pm ET.
The whole record of 2024 ESPY Award nominees is as follows:
Finest Males’s Sports activities Athlete
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs
Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels/Los Angeles Dodgers
Scotty Scheffler, golf
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers
Finest Athlete in Ladies’s Sports activities
Caitlin Clark, Iowa State ladies’s basketball
Coco Gauff, Tennis
Nellie Korda, golf
A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
Finest Breakthrough Athlete
Halle Bryant, LSU Gymnastics
CJ Stroud, Houston Texans
Juju Watkins, USC ladies’s basketball
Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio Spurs
No. 12 JuJu Watkins of the USC Trojans in the course of the first half towards the Connecticut Huskies throughout an Elite 8 recreation within the NCAA ladies’s basketball match at Moda Middle on April 1, 2024 in Portland, Ore. Dribbling.
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Finest record-breaking efficiency
49ers’ Christian McCaffrey scores landing in seventeenth straight recreation, breaking report
Caitlin Clark turns into NCAA’s all-time scoring chief, breaking Pete Maravich’s report
Tara VanDerveer, Stanford Ladies’s Basketball – Wins No. 1,203, surpassing Coach Okay as winningest coach in NCAA basketball historical past
Max Verstappen wins Italian Grand Prix for report tenth consecutive race win
Finest match efficiency
Michigan’s Blake Corum and Will Johnson named 2024 Faculty Soccer Nationwide Championship MVPs
Kayla Martello, Boston Faculty Ladies’s Lacrosse
Midge Purce, New Jersey/New York Gotham FC – NWSL Championship MVP
Jaylen Brown, Boston Celtics
Finest comeback athlete
Simone Biles, gymnast
Paige Bueckers, College of Connecticut Ladies’s Basketball
Joe Flacco, Cleveland Browns
Zion Williamson, New Orleans Pelicans
Simone Biles competes within the flooring train in the course of the 2024 Xfinity USA Gymnastics Championships at Dickies Area on June 2, 2024 in Fort Price, Texas.
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finest play
Jayda Coleman calls recreation to provide Oklahoma fourth straight title – NCAA Softball 6/4/2024
Anthony Edwards Slam Dunk of the Yr – 3/18/24 – NBA
Alabama scores on 4th and 31 to win 11/25/23 vs. Auburn
Lamar Jackson catches his personal move and runs – 1/28/24 – NFL
finest crew
South Carolina Gamecocks, NCAA Ladies’s Basketball
Kansas Metropolis Chiefs, NFL
Michigan Badgers, NCAA Soccer
Las Vegas Aces, WNBA
College of Connecticut Huskies, NCAA Males’s Basketball Workforce
Oklahoma Sooners, NCAA Softball
Boston Celtics, NBA
Florida Panthers, NHL
Texas Rangers, Main League Baseball
Finest Faculty Athlete in Males’s Sports activities
Jayden Daniels, LSU soccer crew
Zach Eddy, Purdue College Males’s Basketball Workforce
Osman Silas, Clemson Soccer Membership
Pat Kavanagh, Notre Dame Hockey
Finest Faculty Athlete in Ladies’s Sports activities
Halle Bryant, LSU Gymnastics
Caitlin Clark, Iowa basketball
Sarah Franklin, Wisconsin volleyball crew
Izzy Scane, Northwest Lacrosse
No. 22 Caitlin Clark of the Iowa Hawkeyes and the LSU Tigers in the course of the NCAA Ladies’s Basketball Event-Albany Regional Closing at MVP Area on April 1, 2024 in Albany, New York. No. 10 Angel Reese of the LSU Tigers.
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Finest Paraathlete
Jadine Blackwell dash world champion
Ezra Frech, excessive soar world champion
Brenna Huckaby Snowboard Champion
Oksana Masters, cross-country skier/handbook bicycle owner
Finest NFL Participant
Myles Garrett, Cleveland Browns
Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens
Patrick Mahomes, Kansas Metropolis Chiefs
Christian McCaffrey, San Francisco 49ers
Finest MLB Participant
Ronald Coyne Jr., Atlanta Braves
Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees
Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Angels
Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
Finest NHL Participant
Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning
Nathan MacKinnon, Colorado Avalanche
Auston Matthews, Toronto Maple Leafs
Connor McDavid, Edmonton Oilers
Finest NBA Participant
Luka Doncic, Dallas Mavericks
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder
Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets
Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
Boston Celtics #0 Jayson Tatum throughout a Boston Celtics victory occasion after profitable the 2024 NBA Finals at TD Backyard on June 21, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts Elevate the Larry O’Brien Trophy.
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Finest WNBA Participant
Nafisa Collier, Minnesota Lynx
Brianna Stewart, New York Free Press
Alyssa Thomas, Connecticut Solar
A’ja Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
finest driver
Ryan Blaney, NASCAR
Matt Hagen, NHRA
Alex Palu, IndyCar
Max Verstappen, F1
Finest UFC fighter
Islam Makhachev
Sean O’Malley
Alex Pereira
Zhang Weili
finest boxer
Terrence Crawford
Senisa Estrada
Naoya Inoue
Alexander Usyk
Terence Crawford defeated Errol Spence Jr. in a World Welterweight Championship match at T-Cellular Area in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 29, 2023 (Errol Spence Jr.), celebrating profitable the championship belt.
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finest soccer participant
Aitana Bonmati, Spain
Naomi Gilma, U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce
Vinicius Junior, Brazil/Actual Madrid
Kylian Mbappe, France/Actual Madrid
finest golfer
Nellie Korda
Xander Schauffele
Scotty Scheffler
Lilia Vu
finest tennis participant
Carlos Alcaraz
Novak Djokovic
coco goff
Iga Swiatek
