The 2025 ESPYS ceremony takes place this Monday (16/07), from 21h. The award, promoted by ESPN and considered the sports Oscar, will be held at Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to reward the best and greatest athletes and their features of the last year. The transmission is up to Disney+.
Among the 22 categories, the 2025 edition will take into account the events of the 2024 Paris Olympics. In addition to the athletes and Olympic teams, teams such as the Dodgers, Eagles and Thunder gain prominence among the nominees.
Then the Sporting News It brings a list of all nominated to ESPYs 2025.
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Nominated to the awards spy 2025
Best Athlete – Male
- Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia Eagles
- Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder
- Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
Best Athlete – Female
- Gabby Thomas, Athletics
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Atletismo
- A’JA Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
- Simone Biles, Gymnastics
Revelation
- Chloe Humphrey, UNC lacrosse
- Cooper Flagg, Duke Men’s Basketball
- Ilona Maher, American Rugby Team
- Paul scenes, Pittsburgh Pirates
Better performance involving a record surpassed
- Alex Ovechkin becomes the greatest scorer in NHL history
- Kevin Durant becomes the highest scorer in the history of the US Basketball National Team
- Caitlin Clark breaks WNBA record for the biggest assistance in a game and a WNBA season
- Geno Auriemma becomes the biggest winner in the history of NCAA Basketball
Better performance involving a title
- Rory Micilroy beats Masters and becomes the sixth biggest champion of the Grand Slam
- Freddie Freeman notes a Grand Slam at World Series, wins the World Series MVP
- Stephen Curry notes 24 points in the game that was worth the gold medal at the Paris Olympics
- Simone Biles becomes the third two -time Olympic champion of the general individual of Olympic gymnastics
Best return
- Mallory Swanson, Chicago Stars FC/American Football Women’s Team
- Suni Lee, Gymnastics
- Gabriel Landeskog, Colorado Avalanche
- Lindsey vonn, Esqui
Best Play
- Tyrese Haliburton hits throwing the timer burst in NBA finals game 1
- SAQUON BARKLEY TOUCHDOWN AGAINST THE JAGUARS
- Sabrino Ionescu wins 3 of the NBA finals with a three -point basket
- Trinity Rodman scores a goal in the quarterfinals of the Olympics finals
Best team
- UCONN, NCAA Women’s Basketball
- American football female team
- UNC, NCAA LACROSSE Female
- Philadelphia Eagles, NFL
- Ohio State, NCAA AMERICANO
- New York Liberty, WNBA
- Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB
- Florida Panthers, NHL
- Oklahoma City Thunder, NBA
Best University Athlete – Male
- C.J. Kirst, Cornell lacrosse
- Wyatt Hendrickson, Oklahoma State luta greco romana
- Travis Hunter, Colorado football
- Cooper Flagg, Duke Basketball
Best University Athlete – Female
- Gretchen Walsh, Virginia Swimming
- Kate Faase, Unc Futebol
- Olivia Babcock, pittsburgh will
- Juju Watkins, USC Basketball
Best PCD athlete
- Grace Norman, triathlon
- Tatyana McFadden, athletics
- Noah Elliott, Snowboarding
- Ezra French, Athletics
Best NFL player
- Josh Allen, Buffalo Bills
- Saquon Barkley, Philadelphia Eagles
- Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens
- Patrick Surtain II, Denver Broncos
Best MLB player
- Freddie Freeman, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Aaron Judge, New York Yankees
- Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles Dodgers
- Tarik Skubal, Detroit Tigers
Best NHL player
- Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning
- Cale Makar, Colorado Avalanche
- Leon Draisaitl, Edmonton Oilers
- Conner Hellebuyck, Winnipeg Jets
Best NBA player
- Giannis antetokounmpo, Milwaukee Bucks
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Oklahoma City Thunder
- Nikola Jokic, Denver Nuggets
- Jayson Tatum, Boston Celtics
Best WNBA player
- A’JA Wilson, Las Vegas Aces
- Breanna Stewart, New York Liberty
- Napheesa Collier, Minnesota Lynx
- Caitlin Clark, Indiana Fever
Best Pilot
- Joey Logano, NASCAR
- Oscar Piastri, F1
- Max Verstappen, F1
- Alex Palou, IndyCar
Best UFC fighter
- Dricus du plying
- Merab dvalishvili
- Kayla Harrison
- Islam Makhachev
Best boxer
- Claressa Shields
- Oleksandr USYK
- Katie Taylor
- Naoya inoue
Best soccer player
- Alexia Whores, FC Barcelona
- Lamine Yamal, FC Barcelona
- Aitana Bonmati, FC Barcelona
- Christian Pulisic, Milan/US Selection
Best Golf Player
- Maja strong
- Rory McIlroy
- Scottie Scheffler
- Nelly Korda
Best tennis player
- Coco Gauff
- Aryna Sabalenka
- Carlos Alcaraz
- Jannik Sinner
