BET Awards 2025: Angel Reese beats Sha'Carri Richardson, Coco Gauff, Simone Biles, and others to Sportswoman of the Year

Angel Reese at the 2025 MET Gala | Credit: Instagram

BET Awards 2025: Angel Reese beats Sha'Carri Richardson, Coco Gauff, Simone Biles, and others to Sportswoman of the Year

Funmilayo Fameso 16:52 - 10.06.2025

Sha'Carri Richardson will have to wait another year to win the BET Awards Sportswoman of the Year, after Angel Reese copped the coveted prize for the third consecutive time.

For the third consecutive year, Chicago Sky star Angel Reese has been named the BET Awards Sportswoman of the Year, defeating top stars such as newly crowned Roland Garros champion Coco Gauff, track star Sha'Carri Richardson, and Olympic champion Simone Biles.

The nominee list also includes Basketball stars Juju Watkins, A'Ja Wilson, and Flaujae Johnson, Clarissa Shields, and Dawn Staley.

Angel Reese is the 2025 BET Awards Sportswoman of the Year for the third-consecutive time | Credit: Getty

Richardson had an impressive 2024 season, highlighted by winning the Olympic 100m silver medal and anchoring the USA's women's 4x100m relay team to gold in Paris. She ended the year with the world's fastest time of 10.71 seconds.

She will hope to finally win the award one day, after losing out on three different occasions to Tennis star Naomi Osaka in 2022, Reese in 2023 and 2024.

This season, Richardson officially made her debut at the Seiko Grand Prix in Tokyo, where she finished fourth in the 100m race, though under an alleged inconvenience, having ran with a calf compressor.

Sha'Carri Richardson won the 2023 world 100m world title in Budapest

Despite the loss, the world 100m champion will aim to return to winning ways in her upcoming races as she continues preparations ahead of defending her world title in Tokyo in September.

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