EUGENE, Ore. – Already the unanimous 2019-20 national player of the year for women's basketball, Sabrina Ionescu made more history on Tuesday as the first Oregon student-athlete ever to win the prestigious James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's most outstanding amateur athlete.
The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) announced Ionescu as the co-winner of the 90th annual Sullivan Award, along with University of Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee. Ionescu and Lee join an elite group of previous winners that includes Peyton Manning (1997), Michelle Kwan (2001), Michael Phelps (2003), J.J. Reddick (2005), Tim Tebow (2007), Shawn Johnson (2008), Ezekiel Elliott (2014) and Kathryn Plummer (2019).