It’s time for our 2025 Black & Gold Banneret Awards! This week we present our nominees for each award honoring the best people, moments and performances from your UCF Knights in the 2024-25 athletic year.
Our staff has chosen the nominees for each award. We will then vote on them this week, and you the fans, can vote as well in the poll below. The winner of the fan vote counts as one vote, and in the event of a tie, the award goes to the winner of the fan vote.
Female Athlete of the Year Nominees
Chloe Netzel — Women’s Soccer
Chloe Netzel is her! Congrats to Chloe for
ADearning First Team All-Big 12 honors https://t.co/0iH0YoO4RM pic.twitter.com/JiswVScenI
— UCF Women's Soccer (@UCF_WSoccer) October 29, 2024
- Named All-Big 12 First Team
- Played 1,025 minutes across 14 matches (12 starts)
- Score 11 goals (T-3rd in Big 12) with an average of .786 goals per match (Leading Big 12)
- Got 1 assist
- Led Big 12 in shots per game (5.21), total shots on goal (43) and shots on goal per game (3.07)
Olivia Lincer — Women’s Tennis
The Big 12’s best resides in Orlando
— UCF Women's Tennis (@UCF_WTennis) April 30, 2025
Liv has been named Player of the Year following a dominating sophomore campaign‼️ pic.twitter.com/okI08wtD4q
- Named Big 12 Player of the Year
- Named All-Big 12 Singles First Team
- Named All-Big 12 Doubles First Team
- Named to All-Big 12 Tournament Team
- Went 15-2 in singles and 11-11 in doubles
Isabella Vega — Softball
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Brenna Johnson- D1Softball’s Freshman All-America First Team.
- All-Big 12 First Team.
- All-Big 12 Freshman Team.
- Ranked among NCAA national leaders in ERA (1.70, 16th), WHIP (0.98, 15th), fewest hits allowed/7 IP (4.90, 20th), shutouts (5, T-29th) and K/BB ratio (2.89, 83rd).
- 0.89 ERA and .138 batting average-against in Big 12 Conference play both led the league, and she also ranked among Big 12 Conference leaders in shutouts (5, T-2nd), ERA (1.70, 3rd), fewest hits allowed/7 IP (4.90, 3rd), WHIP (0.98, 3rd), batting average-against (.197, 3rd), K/BB ratio (2.89, 5th), total strikeouts (110, 5th), complete games (7, T-6th), games started (20, 7th), innings pitched (135.2, T-7th), winning decisions (14, T-7th), and fewest walks allowed/7 IP (1.96, 8th).
- Threw her first career no-hitter at Kansas on May 2
Hannah Lovejoy — Rowing
Racking up the accolades
— UCF Rowing (@UCF_Rowing) June 6, 2025
Hannah Lovejoy is a first-time All-American Honorable Mention ‼️ pic.twitter.com/WKIFSLpm6i
- Named All-American Honorable Mention
- Named Big 12 Rower of the Year and to All-Big 12 Team
- First 8+ boat won its Big 12 Championship race and finished 18th as a boat at the NCAA Championship
Adaobi Tabugbo — Track & Field
Thank you to our Naija Queen, Ada @adaobitabugbo | #gkco pic.twitter.com/g4eiyb0U3J
— UCF Track & Field/XC (@UCF_Track) June 29, 2025
- 3x All-American (60H Second-Team, 100H Second-Team, 4x100m Relay Honorable Mention)
- Three Big 12 Conference medals (100H gold, 60H silver, 4x100m Relay bronze)
- Ranked 2nd in program history in 60H (7.99s)
- Ranked 3rd in program history in 100H (12.87s)
- Ranked 8th in program history in 4x100m Relay (43.57s)
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