DURHAM, N.C. –The honors keep rolling in for Duke women's soccer graduate student
Maggie Graham as she has been named a finalist for the Honda Sports Award for women's soccer, as announced by Chris Voelz of The Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA).
Along with Graham selected were Kate Faasse (North Carolina), Caiya Hanks (Wake Forest) and Taylor Huff (Florida State).
The Honda Sport Award has been presented annually by the CWSA for the past 49 years, recognizing the top women athletes in 12 NCAA-sanctioned sports and symbolizing "the best of the best in collegiate athletics." The recipient of the sport award will become a finalist for the prestigious Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and the 2025 Honda Cup, which will be presented during the live broadcast of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Presented by Honda on CBS Sports Network in June.
Graham, a product of Atlanta, Ga., turned in an outstanding final season with the Blue Devils with a team-best 14 goals along with five assists for a team-best 33 points. She went from scoring one goal in 2023 and a total of eight goals over her first four seasons at Duke to 14 in 2024.
She notched five game-winning goals and three matches with two or more tallies. The ACC Midfielder of the Year played her best against the top competition with seven of her 14 goals coming against ranked opponents. Four of her five game-winning goals came against nationally ranked opponents as well – No. 2 North Carolina, No. 7 Stanford, No. 8 North Carolina and No. 17 Texas Tech.
In the ACC stats, Graham ranked second in game-winning goals (5), fourth in goals per game (0.64), fourth in goals (14), sixth in points (33) and sixth in points per game (1.50). Among the national stats, Graham was 16th in goals, 17th in game-winning goals, 26th in goals per game and 19th in points.
Graham became one of just three Blue Devils to see action in over 100 career matches and competed in 6,487 career minutes.
She helped the Blue Devils to a very impressive season with an 18-3-1 overall and 9-0-1 ACC ledger. Duke advanced to the NCAA College Cup for the fifth time in program history, won the ACC Regular Season title for the fourth time in Blue Devil history and sent head coach
Robbie Church off into retirement after one of the most impressive seasons in Duke history.
The CWSA, now in its 49th year, celebrates the nation's top NCAA women athletes for their excellence in athletics, leadership, academics, and community service. Since its partnership began in 1986, Honda has provided more than $3.4 million in institutional grants to the universities of award winners and nominees, supporting the growth and success of women's athletics programs.
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