The Best Team ESPY Award has been presented annually since 1993 to the professional, collegiate, or national team, irrespective of nationality[1] or sport contested, adjudged to be the best in a specified twelve-month period preceding the awards ceremony. In 2001, the award was bifurcated and the resulting honors were styled as the College Team of the Year and Pro Team of the Year ESPY Awards; the awards were joined once more in 2002.
Between 1993 and 2004, the award voting panel comprised variously fans; sportswriters and broadcasters, sports executives, and retired sportspersons, termed collectively experts; and ESPN personalities, but balloting thereafter has been exclusively by fans over the Internet from amongst choices selected by the ESPN Select Nominating Committee.
Through the 2001 iteration of the ESPY Awards, ceremonies were conducted in February of each year to honor achievements over the previous calendar year; awards presented thereafter are conferred in July and reflect performance from the June previous.[2] The award wasn't awarded in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
List of winners
See also
- Sports trophies and awards
References
- ↑ Through 2019, only teams situated in or representing the United States or constituent of a major North American professional league had been honored.
- ↑ Because of the rescheduling of the ESPY Awards ceremony, the award presented in 2002 was given in consideration of performance betwixt February 2001 and June 2002.
- Enumeration of past winners from HickokSports.com at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2002-02-23)
- List of winners from ESPN's ESPY's site