Jade Carey was named the 2025 AAI Award recipient, recognizing her as the top senior gymnast in NCAA women’s gymnastics. Aleah Finnegan was one of the six finalists for that very prestigious AAI Award. Audrey Davis also had a tremendous season with her contribution to Oklahoma’s 7th national title with a beam/bar performance score of 9.925 on bars. Jordan Bowers is the 2025 NCAA All-Around Champion. She scored an impressive 39.7125 at the NCAA finals in Fort Worth. The common thing between the four? All of them had been nominated for the Class of 2025 Honda Sport Award for Gymnastics, as revealed by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of The Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA) on April 25, 2025. Now here’s how things get interesting –

The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 49 years to the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports, signifying “the best of the best in collegiate athletics” and Jade Carey delivered a season that makes her deserving of that. In 2025, she became the first gymnast in Pac-12 history to win the all-around and beam event titles in all of her regular season appearances, including the NCAA Regional, finished with 51 event titles, bringing her career total to 168. She had 49 scores of 9.900-plus across 56 total routines, finishing the year with no lower than a 9.900 on both bars and beam and only one sub-9.000 on bars. But if she didn’t win despite all this, who did?

Inside Gymnastics Magazine took to their official Instagram handle to post a picture of Jordan Bowers on June 30th, 2025. A candid photo of the athlete with a charming smile, but what caught the attention of the fans was the top she had donned. It read, “The Collegiate Women Sports Award presented by Honda.” The Oklahoma gymnast had been awarded the title of 2025 Honda Sport Award for gymnastics.

The magazine captioned the post, “🏆🏆🏆 Go Jordan! The winners of the individual 2025 Honda Sports Awards are gathered for the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Presented by Honda, which will take place on June 30, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET, broadcast live on CBS Sports Network. The individual winner for the sport of gymnastics is Jordan Bowers of Oklahoma. What a year for our current cover star!” What a year indeed for Bowers, with the NCAA title and then this as well.

“I am so extremely grateful to be the Honda Award Winner for the sport of gymnastics,” Bowers said. “Winning this award is truly a dream come true and I couldn’t do it without the people who support me the most, and this incredible university I get the pleasure to represent every single day. Thank you to my coaches, teammates and family members who push me to be the best version of myself every day and help me realize I am capable of things I didn’t even think I was capable of.”

Carrying the legacy of former gymnasts Kelly Garrison (1987, 1988), Maggie Nichols (2019), and Anastasia Webb (2021), and softball’s Keilani Ricketts (2012, 2013) and Jocelyn Alo (2022), Bowers is the sixth Sooner athlete to receive the prestigious award. She is now a finalist for the prestigious Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the 2025 Honda Cup. So, how good was her season to put Jade Carey’s iconic 2025 out of limelight?

Jordan Bowers 2024-2025 season

Jordan Bowers’s 2025 season was nothing short of extraordinary. She retired because of injury, but not before she achieved perfection and led Oklahoma to national supremacy. The Oklahoma senior competed in the all-around at every one of their 17 meets, maintaining a perfect hit rate that saw her deliver flawless routines without any falls. Her precision was highlighted by 49 scores of 9.9 or higher, including 23 performances at 9.95+, and she captured an impressive 24 event titles, nine of which were all-around victories.

At the conference level, Bowers earned the prestigious honor of SEC Gymnast of the Year as Oklahoma transitioned into the Southeastern Conference. The accolade reflected her dominance and adaptability—she averaged 38 marks of 9.9+, with 18 of those at 9.95+, and was named SEC Gymnast of the Week three times. Not to mention, she also secured All-SEC recognition across multiple apparatuses, including uneven bars, beam, floor, and the all-around. 

Her best came in postseason play. At the NCAA Seattle Regional, Bowers made history by delivering three perfect 10s, two separate occasions of this rarity underscoring her composure under pressure. She then powered through the NCAA Championships in Fort Worth, where she claimed the individual all-around crown with a 39.7125 and anchored Oklahoma to its seventh national title, contributing key scores of 9.8875 on bars and 9.925 on floor—that underpinned the team’s 198.0125 victory over UCLA. Great season, don’t you think?