"SportsKid of the Year" was introduced by Sports Illustrated magazine after the highly successful Sportsman of the Year award was introduced in 1954. The "SportsKid of the Year" award honors a young athlete, ages seven to 15, for superior performance on the field, in the classroom and service in the community.

In addition to being featured exclusively on the December Sports Illustrated Kids cover, the "SportsKid of the Year" receives a profiling article and fold-out poster in the issue. The SportsKid is also honored at Sports Illustrated's annual Sportsman of the Year awards celebration in New York City and in 2011 was featured on Cartoon Network's "Hall of Game" in Los Angeles.

The award has been given to the following recipients:

YearWinner(s)Sport(s)Age(s)Ref
2007United States Brock HeffronBMX10[1]
2008United States Derek AndrewsBaseball, Soccer, Hockey, Basketball, Gymnastics, Swimming8[2]
2009United States Austin McCarthyHockey10[3]
2010United States Jessica AneyTennis and Hockey12[4]
2011United States Noah FlegelWakeboarding14[5]
2012United States Conner and Cayden LongTriathlon9, 7[6]
2013United States Jack WellmanWrestling14[7]
2014United States Mo'ne DavisBaseball13[8]
2015United States Reece WhitleySwimming15[9]
2016United States Tai, Rainn, and Brooke SheppardTrack11, 10, 9[10]
2017United States Maxwell "Bunchie" YoungFootball and Track10[11]
2018United States Leah HayesSwimming13[12]
2019United States Ally SentnorSoccer15[13]
2020United States JuJu WatkinsBasketball15[14]
2021United States Zaila Avant-gardeBasketball, Spelling14[15]

References

  1. ↑ "ABA's Factory Redman rider Brock Heffron voted SI Kids "Youth Athlete of the Year"". Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  2. ↑ "Sports Kid of the Year". Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  3. ↑ "2009 Sports Kid of the Year". Retrieved 2011-06-30.
  4. ↑ "2010 SportsKid of the Year: Jessica Aney". Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Noah Flegel Named SI Kids' SportsKid Of The Year". Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  6. ↑ "2012 SI Kids SportsKids of the Year: The Long Brothers". Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  7. ↑ Gramling, Gary (December 5, 2013). "Sportskid of the Year 2013 — Jack Wellman". Sports Illustrated Kids. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ Tapper, Christina M. (December 1, 2014). "SportsKid of the Year 2014: Mo'ne Davis". Sports Illustrated Kids. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  9. ↑ Feeney, Nolan (November 30, 2015). "Swimmer Reece Whitley Is Sports Illustrated Kids' 'SportsKid of the Year'". TIME. Retrieved May 10, 2016.
  10. ↑ McCue, Elizabeth McGarr. "SportsKids of the Year 2016: The Sheppard Sisters". SI Kids: Sports News for Kids, Kids Games and More.
  11. ↑ Fuchs, Jeremy. "Bunchie Young is Our 2017 SportsKid of the Year". SI Kids: Sports News for Kids, Kids Games and More.
  12. ↑ Fuches, Jeremy (21 November 2018). "Leah Hayes is Our 2018 SportsKid of the Year". SI Kids. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
  13. ↑ https://www.sikids.com/2019/11/22/ally-sentnor-2019-sportskid-year
  14. ↑ "JuJu Watkins of Windward gets her first magazine cover as SportsKid of the year". Los Angeles Times. November 20, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Zaila Avant-garde Named SportsKid of the Year for 2021".
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