TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Mere days after defending her steeplechase title at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships and securing her third individual national crown this season, Alabama phenom Doris Lemngole was selected as a finalist for the Class of 2025 Honda Sport Award for Track and Field, announced Monday by The Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).

The announcement comes after Lemngole was named the Honda Sport Award winner for Cross Country earlier this year.

Doris Lemngole – Honda Sport Award Finalist

• 2025 Honda Sport Award winner for Cross Country
• Defended her steeplechase national title by setting a NCAA meet record and collegiate record, and delivering the world’s fastest time of the year by breaking the nine-minute barrier (8:58.15)
• Became the first student-athlete in NCAA history to clock a sub-9:00 time in the women’s 3,000-meter steeplechase
• Two-time SEC Outdoor champion in the steeplechase and the 5,000m
• Went undefeated in all outdoor events this season
• 2025 NCAA indoor national champion in the 5,000m and national runner-up in the 3,000m
• Eight-time Bowerman Watch List member and the only woman to appear on every Watch List this season
• Four-time national champion
• Seven-time All-American
• 2024 USTFCCCA Lance Harter National Women’s Athlete of the Year 
• Swept all three SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year honors (cross country, indoor track, outdoor track)

2025 Honda Sport Award, Track and Field

• Joining Lemngole is Georgia’s Aaliyah Butler, Michigan’s Savannah Sutherland and Washington’s Hana Moll
• All four finalists were chosen by a panel of experts from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA)
• The Honda Sport award winner for track and field will be announced later this week after voting by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools
• The CWSA, celebrating its 49^th year, honors the nation’s top NCAA women athletes for their superior athletic skills, leadership, academic excellence and eagerness to participate in community service
• The winner of the sport award becomes a finalist for the prestigious Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year award and the 2025 Honda Cup, which will be presented during the live broadcast of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards on CBS Sports Network on June 30 at 6 p.m. CT