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Junior Bronte Law has been named a finalist for the Honda Sport Award for golf for the second year in a row, as announced by The Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA) on Wednesday.
The other finalists are Duke's Virginia Elena Carta, South Carolina's Katelyn Dambaugh and Alabama's Cheyenne Knight.
The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 40 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 2016 Honda Cup, which will be presented on a live telecast on CBS Sports Network on June 27.
The nominees were chosen by a combination of NCAA Championship finish and national golf rankings. The Honda Sport Award winner for golf will be announced next week after voting by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA-member schools. Each NCAA member institution has a vote.
Law's nomination is the third-straight year a Bruin has been named a finalist. Alison Lee was a finalist in 2014. Also receiving finalist spots have been Tiffany Joh (2008), Amie Cochran (2005), Susie Mathews and Charlotte Mayorkas (2004), Kathy Choi (1996), Christy Erb (1991), Jean Zedlitz (1989) and Kay Cockerill (1986). UCLA will be looking for its first Honda Sport Award win in golf.
Law was named the PING WGCA Player of the Year, as well as a WGCA First Team All-American. The top-ranked collegiate golfer according to Golfweek, she led the Bruins with a 70.6 scoring average this season, posting eight Top 10's in nine events, including a co-medalist finish at the Bryan Regional. It was her third victory of the season (Stanford Intercollegiate and PING/ASU Invitational) and the sixth of her career to tie Cockerill for the most in school history. In her last four events prior to the NCAA Championships, she went T-1, second (Pac-12 Championships), first (PING/ASU) and second (Bruin Wave Invitational). She had 20 rounds under par and 11 in the 60's. Law, who was named All-Pac-12 First Team, finished ninth in stroke play at the NCAA Championships and never trailed in both of her match-play contests.