Bowers Earns Prestigious Honda Sport Award

NORMAN – Oklahoma senior and NCAA all-around champion Jordan Bowers was named the Honda Sport Award Winner for gymnastics, the Collegiate Women Sports Award (CWSA) announced Tuesday.

Bowers is just the sixth Sooner athlete to receive the prestigious award, joining former gymnasts Kelly Garrison (1987, 1988), Maggie Nichols (2019) and Anastasia Webb (2021), and softball's Keilani Ricketts (2012, 2013) and Jocelyn Alo (2022).

The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 49 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports and signifies "the best of the best in collegiate athletics". The winner of the sport award becomes a finalist for the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the prestigious 2025 Honda Cup, which will be presented on CBS Sports Network on June 30 at 6 p.m. CT.

"I am so extremely grateful to be the Honda Award Winner for the sport of gymnastics," Bowers said. "Winning this award is truly a dream come true and I couldn't do it without the people who support me the most, and this incredible university I get the pleasure to represent every single day. Thank you to my coaches, teammates and family members who push me to be the best version of myself every day and help me realize I am capable of things I didn't even think I was capable of."

Bowers, a two-time Honda Award Finalist, has been one of the most decorated athletes to compete at Oklahoma. A part of three national title teams, Bowers was the 2025 NCAA All-Around Champion, becoming the fourth Sooner in program history to earn the title. She was the 2025 SEC Gymnast of the Year and has been named the conference gymnast of the year for two straight seasons after earning Big 12 Gymnast of the Year in 2024. After conference realignment, Bowers was the only athlete who earned gymnast of the year in two different conferences in back-to-back seasons.

After earning first team All-America honors on all four events and in the all-around, the only athlete in the nation to do so, Bowers finished her career as a 16-time NCAA All-American. She also garnered four All-SEC honors in Oklahoma's first year in the league.

An AAI Award Finalist, Bowers further cemented herself in the record books at the 2025 NCAA Seattle Regional. In the regional final, she earned not one, not two, but three perfect 10s in the same meet for the second time in her career. When Bowers achieved the feat in 2024, she was one of just five gymnasts to earn three perfect scores in one meet. When she did it for a second time, she became one of one. No other gymnast in NCAA history has earned three perfect 10s in more than one meet. The senior now has 12 career perfect 10s which ranks second all-time in program history.

"I am so proud to be a Sooner and so grateful for every opportunity this university has given me in and out of the classroom," Bowers continued. "Huge congratulations to my fellow finalists Audrey Davis, Jade Carey and Aleah Finnegan. All of you are such incredible athletes and people and I have been blessed to share this journey and be nominated for this award with all of you. You should all be so proud of yourselves and your careers as well. I am so honored to win such a prestigious award and I thank you all again. Boomer Sooner forever!"

Bowers was chosen by a vote of administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools. Finalists included teammate Audrey Davis, Oregon State's Jade Carey and LSU's Aleah Finnegan. Bowers will look to become just the second Sooner to win the Honda Cup as Keilani Ricketts won in 2013.

The CWSA, entering its 49th year, has honored the nation's top NCAA women athletes for their superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service. Since commencing its partnership in 1986, Honda has provided more than $3.4 million in institutional grants to the universities of the award winners and nominees to support women's athletics programs.