Stiles is the 11th basketball player to have won the Honda-Broderick Cup in the 25-year history of the award.

The Southwest Missouri State guard set the scoring record for NCAA women's basketball this year in a win over Creighton University in March, and finished her career with 3,398 points. She averaged more than 30 points per game as a senior and led her team to an appearance in the Women's Final Four, where the Lady Bears lost to Purdue University in the semifinals.

Stiles is now playing professionally for Portland of the WNBA. She was selected over 11 other candidates who won Honda Awards for being voted as the best in their respective sports for the 2000-01 collegiate year. They are: Jen Adams, lacrosse, University of Maryland, College Park; Mohini Bhardwaj, gymnastics, University of California, Los Angeles; Greichaly Cepero, volleyball, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Marina DeGiacomo, field hockey, Old Dominion University; Jennie Finch, softball, University of Arizona; Meredith Florance, soccer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Laura Granville, tennis, Stanford University; Kara Grgas-Wheeler, cross country, University of Colorado, Boulder; Candy Hannemann, golf, Duke University; Misty Hyman, swimming, Stanford; and Brenda Taylor, track, Harvard University.

Also honored were swimmer Jessica Martin of Truman State University as Division II athlete of the year; basketball player Tasha Rodgers of Washington University (Missouri) as Division III athlete of the year, and swimmer Kendra Berner of Davidson College, who won the Inspiration Award for competing with a congenital deformation of her right hand and still managing to turn in the school's second-fastest 50-meter race of 24.86 seconds.

Former UCLA track star Jackie Joyner-Kersee also was named the top winner of the Honda award for the last 25 years. Joyner-Kersee led UCLA to Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field championships in 1982 and 1983, winning the heptathlon both years. She remains the school's record holder in that sport and the long jump. In addition, Joyner-Kersee was a four-year starter on the UCLA basketball team. Her Jackie Joyner-Kersee Foundation has raised $12 million to build a community youth center in East St. Louis, Missouri.