The NFL workforce beat out the NHL’s Florida Panthers, the MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers, the WNBA’s Recent York Liberty, the NCAA Football’s Ohio Negate Buckeyes, the NBA’s Oklahoma Metropolis Yelp, the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse’s North Carolina Tarheels, soccer’s US Women’s National Crew and the College of Connecticut girls folks’s basketball workforce the Huskies.

Assorted winners from the ceremony—which was hosted by comedian Shane Gillis—incorporated rugby’s Ilona Maher for Most inspiring Leap forward Athlete, basketball’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and gymnastics’ Simone Biles for Most inspiring Athlete in males’s and girls folks’s sports to boot to gymnastics’ Suni Lee for Most inspiring Comeback Athlete.

One day of the evening, the ESPYs furthermore handed out its annual Icon Award to soccer’s Alex Morgan and basketball’s Diana Taurasi in recognition of their “unbelievable careers and most distinguished influence on the enviornment of sports.”

One day of the pair’s joint acceptance speech, Alex referenced the many feminine athletes that had advance sooner than her to succor her land on that stage.

“We're standing on the shoulders of giants, and that’s a large tribute to them as a lot as us,” the USWNT alum talked about from the Los Angeles' Dolby Theater stage. “So, to the girls folks sooner than us, it's thanks to you that we never want to voice regret for speaking up or for battling to lift the bar.”

She added, “It's thanks to you that we manufacture no longer own any limits.”

Diana, meanwhile, shared a a range of shoutout to her strengthen method.

“In my case, let's own an even time my of us and their immigrant grit,” the basketball participant talked about. “That's the stuff that doesn't remark up in the highlight reels but it shows up when the lights droop off and you're peaceful available grinding—giving me a better existence that's constructed what my occupation is and constructed this country.”

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