Athletics Honors and Awards

For more than a century, Sun Devil Athletics has achieved legendary success on and off the field. With 26 intercollegiate varsity sports and more than 650 student-athletes representing Arizona State University, Sun Devil Athletics today is a force that brings even greater attention to the country’s most innovative university (ASU is repeatedly ranked No. 1 nationally in innovation, sustainability and global impact), while also engaging the regional community through thousands of volunteer service hours.

Seeking the highest possible bar of excellence, Sun Devil Athletics shapes student-athletes who are successful academically and athletically, and who are prepared for success following graduation. Championship performance, integrity, graduation and tradition are hallmarks of the Sun Devil way.

180+ Olympians

The more than 180 Sun Devil Olympians have represented 42 countries and competed or coached a total of 267 times. Twenty-four current and former Sun Devils competed or coached in the 2024 Summer Games in Paris, earning nine Olympic medals.

Nearly 70 Olympic medals

Since the 1952 Helsinki games, the Sun Devils' 66 Olympic medals include 29 golds, 12 silvers and 28 bronzes.

36 in the Hall

ASU is the home of 36 Sun Devils who have earned top-of-the-sport hall of fame status: 5 NFL, 13 College Football, 11 National College Baseball, 2 National Wrestling, 2 International Swimming, 1 Major League Baseball, 1 World Golf, 1 Golf Coaches of America.

147 national team titles

Since 1959, Sun Devil teams have won 147 national championships. Starting with baseball in 1965, winning the first of its five championships, the Sun Devils have won 25 NCAA team titles, with men’s swimming the most recent in 2024. Women’s golf has won eight NCAA titles, the most in the sport. Triathlon has added seven national titles since its arrival in 2016, and is on the path as an emerging NCAA championship as early as 2026.

Consistently ranked at the top of the APR in its conference

Arizona State has been consistently ranked at the top of the Academic Progress Rate in its conference. ASU has averaged a 990-plus for each multi-year APR cohort that has been released.

The No. 1 and only

ASU Women’s Tennis has earned a perfect 1,000 score every year in the NCAA Academic Progress Rate program, the only team in the sport among Division I Power Five Conferences to do so.

Sun Devils serve

Sun Devil Athletics embraces and promotes social responsibility and community service for its more than 650 athletes. In the past year, some of these initiatives have included building homes with Habitat for Humanity as part of a partnership with the NCAA, participating in many projects with A New Leaf housing facility, collaborating with student coalitions and community groups to celebrate heritage months at our athletic events, and planting flags in remembrance at the Tempe Healing Field. SDA also has a long-standing relationship with Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

152 Academic All-Americans

Since 1962, ASU has produced 152 Academic All-Americans, the most in the Big 12.

Record-high 13 teams post perfect GSR scores in 2023

Thirteen teams posted Graduation Success Rate scores at 100% in 2023, which is the most Arizona State has had at 100%. Those teams are men's and women's basketball, beach volleyball, men's and women's golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, soccer, women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, water polo and wrestling.

17 years in a row

For the 17th year in a row, Sun Devil scholar-athletes maintained or surpassed an all-time high Graduation Success Rate since 2008, earning a 93% score in 2023 and placing in the upper echelon of conference programs.

26 varsity sports

From the first pitch in 1891 to a seventh straight women’s triathlon national title in 2023, Sun Devil Athletics has grown to 26 varsity sports — the most in the Big 12 — and more than 650 student-athletes.

Sustainability-certified

A winner of the prestigious USG NACDA Sustainability Award, Sun Devil Athletics joined Yale University in 2018 as the only universities in the U.S. with Sustainability Certified programs through University Sustainability Practices.

40+ scholar-athletes

Since the launch of the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year honor in 2008, Sun Devils accounted for 40+ winners, second only to Stanford.

7 Elite 90 winners

Seven Sun Devil athletes have been recognized by the NCAA as winners of the Elite 90 award since it was founded in 2009. ASU produced three Elite 90 winners in 2023–24, after having four previously. The award honors individuals who achieve the pinnacle of competition in their sport at the national championship level while achieving the highest academic standard among their peers.

Elite Athletics Program

Before Arizona became this country’s 48th state in 1912, athletics were deeply embedded in the college campus scene.

From the beginning — a baseball game in 1891 versus a team from the nearby Mormon settlement of Stringtown — and through more than 125 years of competitions, Arizona State University’s sporting teams have been a part of the fabric of the state and also the nation. Today, Sun Devil Athletics boasts a robust roster of 26 NCAA varsity sports and more than 650 student-athletes.

The greats — from around the corner, throughout the country and even across the globe — have come to ASU to compete for and represent the Sun Devils. From nationally recognized heroes like Pat Tillman to two-time Olympic gold medal winner Melissa Belote-Ripley to Academic All-Americans of the Year Gea Johnson

and Casey Myers, Sun Devils have led the way on the field and in the classroom. There are Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, home run king Barry Bonds, Golden Spikes winner Bob Horner in baseball; football hall inductees Danny White, Randall McDaniel, Curley Culp; golfing headliners Phil Mickelson, Grace Park, Jon Rahm; hoops standouts James Hardin, “Jumpin’ Joe” Caldwell; basketball-softball crossover Jodi Rathbun; Boston Marathon winner Desiree Davila-Linden; and Olympic gold medalists Herman Frazier, Amy LePeilbet and Dwight Phillips. All, and many more in every honorific category, have earned international acclaim for their achievement, their sport, their school.

Top students and top athletes have been inspired at ASU through nearly 130 years of competitive excellence. Among the many are:

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