2024 ESPY Awards

31st annual ESPY Awards

2024 ESPY Awards

Date

July 11, 2024 (2024-07-11)

Location

Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles

Country

United States

Hosted by

Serena Williams

Television/radio coverage

Network

ABC

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The 2024 ESPY Awards, the 32nd annual ceremony of the ESPY Awards, will be held on July 11, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and broadcast by ABC.

Ceremony information

On May 14, 2024, it was announced that legendary tennis player Serena Williams will host the ceremony, becoming the fourth woman to host the ESPY awards, following Danica Patrick, Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird, as well as the first African American female athlete to host.^[1]^[2] The nominees were announced on June 26, 2024.^[3]

ESPN announced that Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex would be the recipient of the Pat Tillman Award in recognition of his service in the British Armed Forces and work with the Invictus Games.^[4]

Nominees

Best Athlete, Men's Sports Patrick Mahomes – Kansas City Chiefs, NFL Shohei Ohtani – Los Angeles Angels/Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB Scottie Scheffler – Golf Connor McDavid – Edmonton Oilers, NHL	Best Athlete, Women's Sports Caitlin Clark – Iowa Women's Basketball Coco Gauff – Tennis Nelly Korda – Golf A'ja Wilson – Las Vegas Aces, WNBA
Best Breakthrough Athlete Haleigh Bryant – LSU Gymnastics C. J. Stroud – Houston Texans, NFL Juju Watkins – USC Women's Basketball Victor Wembanyama – San Antonio Spurs, NBA	Best Comeback Athlete Simone Biles – Gymnastics Paige Bueckers – University of Connecticut Women’s Basketball Joe Flacco – Cleveland Browns, NFL Zion Williamson – New Orleans Pelicans, NBA
Best College Athlete, Men's Sports Jayden Daniels – LSU Football Ousmane Sylla – Clemson Soccer Pat Kavanagh – Notre Dame Lacrosse Zach Edey – Purdue Boilermakers basketball	Best College Athlete, Women's Sports Caitlin Clark – Iowa women's basketball Sarah Franklin – Wisconsin Volleyball Izzy Scane – Northwestern lacrosse Haleigh Bryant – LSU Gymnastics
Best Team South Carolina Gamecocks – NCAA Women’s Basketball Kansas City Chiefs – NFL Michigan Wolverines – NCAA Football Las Vegas Aces – WNBA University of Connecticut Huskies – NCAA Men’s Basketball Oklahoma Sooners – NCAA Softball Boston Celtics – NBA Florida Panthers – NHL Texas Rangers – MLB	Best Championship Performance Blake Corum and Will Johnson – Michigan Wolverines, 2024 College Football National Championship MVPs Kayla Martello – Boston College Women’s Lacrosse Midge Purce – NJ/NY Gotham FC, NWSL Championship MVP Jaylen Brown – Boston Celtics
Best Athlete with a Disability Jaydin Blackwell – World Champion Sprinter Ezra Frech – World Champion High Jumper Brenna Huckaby – Snowboarding Champion Oksana Masters – Cross-Country Skier/Hand Cyclist	Best Play Jayda Coleman walk-off home run sends Oklahoma to 4th straight softball championship Anthony Edwards Dunk of the Year Alabama scores on 4th and 31 to beat Auburn Lamar Jackson catches his own pass for first down
Best Record-Breaking Performance 49ers Christian McCaffrey scores a TD for a record breaking 17 straight games Caitlin Clark becomes NCAA’s All Time Scoring Leader breaking Pete Maravich’s Record Tara VanDerveer, Stanford Women’s Basketball – gets 1,203rd win to pass Coach K for most by any coach in NCAA basketball history Max Verstappen wins record 10th consecutive race with victory at Italian Grand Prix	Best NFL Player Patrick Mahomes – Kansas City Chiefs Myles Garrett – Cleveland Browns Lamar Jackson – Baltimore Ravens Christian McCaffrey – San Francisco 49ers
Best MLB Player Shohei Ohtani – Los Angeles Angels Ronald Acuña – Atlanta Braves Gerrit Cole – New York Yankees Corey Seager – Texas Rangers	Best NHL Player Connor McDavid – Edmonton Oilers Nikita Kucherov – Tampa Bay Lightning Nathan MacKinnon – Colorado Avalanche Auston Matthews – Toronto Maple Leafs
Best NBA Player Nikola Jokić – Denver Nuggets Luka Dončić – Dallas Mavericks Shai Gilgeous-Alexander – Oklahoma City Thunder Jayson Tatum – Boston Celtics	Best WNBA Player A'ja Wilson – Las Vegas Aces Napheesa Collier – Minnesota Lynx Alyssa Thomas – Connecticut Sun Breanna Stewart – New York Liberty
Best Soccer Player Aitana Bonmatí – Spain Naomi Girma – USWNT Vinicius Junior – Brazil/Real Madrid Kylian Mbappé – France/Real Madrid	Best Driver Max Verstappen – Formula One Matt Hagan – NHRA Ryan Blaney – NASCAR Álex Palou – IndyCar
Best Golfer Scottie Scheffler Xander Schauffele Nelly Korda Lilia Vu	Best Boxer Terence Crawford Seniesa Estrada Naoya Inoue Oleksandr Usyk
Best UFC Fighter Sean O’Malley Alex Pereira Islam Makhachev Zhang Weili	Best Tennis Player Novak Djokovic Carlos Alcaraz Coco Gauff Iga Świątek

References

^ "Serena Williams to become fourth woman to host ESPYS in July". ESPN.com. May 14, 2024. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
^ Bumbaca, Chris (May 14, 2024). "Serena Williams will host 2024 ESPY awards in July: 'She'll bring elite star-power'". USA Today.com. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
^ Nordyke, Kimberly (June 26, 2024). "ESPY Awards: Simone Biles, Caitlin Clark, Patrick Mahomes Among 2024 Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
^ "Prince Harry to Receive ESPN's Pat Tillman Award at 2024 ESPYs". The Hollywood Reporter. June 27, 2024. Retrieved June 30, 2024.