STANFORD, Calif. — Megha Ganne and Paula Martín Sampedro were named finalists for the Honda Sport Award for Women’s Golf, as announced by The Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).
The pair of Cardinal is joined by Maria José Marin of Arkansas and Farah O'Keefe of Texas. The women’s golf finalists were selected by a panel of experts and coaches from the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA). The Honda Sport award winner for golf will be announced later this week after voting by administrators from over 1,000 NCAA member schools.
Ganne caps off her Stanford career with an individual runner-up finish at the NCAA Championship, finishing two strokes off an individual national championship. She took home the Inkster Award for the highest-placing senior at the NCAA Championship, just one of many awards for her this season. She became a three-time First Team All-America selection en route to helping Stanford land the 2026 NCAA women’s golf title, the team’s third in five years. Her career scoring average of 71.01 is the second-best in program history, and she went pro this week, competing at the U.S. Women’s Open.
Martín Sampedro has one year remaining in what has been a wildly successful collegiate career. The junior from Madrid, Spain, is a two-time conference golfer of the year recipient, including the 2026 ACC Golfer of the Year after she won individual medalist honors at the ACC Championship. She is the No. 2-ranked amateur in the world and was named a three-time First Team All-American earlier this week. Her career scoring average of 70.19 is the lowest in Stanford history through three seasons, and like Ganne, she is playing at the U.S. Women’s Open this weekend (as an amateur).
The announcement comes during a landmark moment for the organization, as the CWSA celebrates its 50th anniversary during the 2025–26 collegiate athletics season. For five decades, the Honda Sport Award has honored the nation’s top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, symbolizing “the best of the best in collegiate athletics.”
The recipient will become a finalist for the prestigious Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the Class of 2026 Honda Cup, to be presented live on Monday, July 27, at 7 p.m. ET on CBS Sports Network.