The 16th Annual Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup, an award given to the most outstanding role models among athletes, has announced collegiate honorees for its 2020 award ceremony to be held in Atlanta at a date to be announced. Bob Ryan, the famed sportswriter for the Boston Globe and analyst for ESPN, will serve as the Master of Ceremonies.
Founded by Athletes for a Better World (ABW), a non-profit organization committed to changing the culture of American sports, the Wooden Cup is unique in that it is open to athletes in all high school, collegiate, Olympic, and professional sports. Annual nominations are open to every division and conference in college sports, and to athletes in public and private high schools across the country in partnership with the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.
John Wooden, who won ten national championships during the years 1964-1975 as basketball coach at UCLA, is commonly regarded as the greatest college coach of any sport who ever lived. Universally regarded as one of the finest human beings to ever grace the world of sports, his character, conduct and selfless gifts stand at the highest level by any standard. When Coach Wooden learned about Athletes for a Better World, he gave authorization to attach his name to this annual award, and he attended and addressed the inaugural event in Los Angeles in 2005. In his honor, the Coach Wooden Citizenship Cup is presented to four distinguished athletes, one collegiate, one professional or Olympic, and a male and female from the high school ranks, for their character and leadership both on and off the field.
The 2020 collegiate Wooden Cup recipient will be announced at the awards ceremony.
Finalists for the collegiate division include:
| Denison University | Claire Kolff |
| Florida State University | Trent Forrest |
| Georgia Tech | Bria Matthews |
| University of Dayton | Ryan Culhane |
The Semifinalists were:
| Bemidji State University | Jared Henning |
| Bethel University | Jake Marsh |
| Central Michigan University | Alexandria Robinson |
| Concordia University Irvine | Sarah Kretschmar |
| Ferris State | Travis Russell |
| Florida Southern College | Joe Appio |
| Georgia College | Amber Coy |
| Houston Baptist University | Danielle Wheeler |
| Nazareth College | Jake Adams |
| NC State University | James Smith-Williams |
| Northeast Mississippi Community College | Haley Vick |
| Oregon State | Mikayla Pivec |
| Peru State College | Julia Zurek |
| Purdue University | Hannah Melchiorre |
| Shenandoah University | Sarah Donley |
| Southeastern University | Felipe Barbosa |
| The College of Wooster | Aubri McKoy |
| Truett McConnell University | Rachel Barnett |
| University of Delaware | Cali Loeffler |
| University of Georgia | Rodrigo Blankenship |
| University of Michigan | Roland Amarteifio |
| University of Montana Athletics | Dante Olson |
| University of Oklahoma | Nicole Mendes |
| University of South Carolina | Frances Harrison |
| University of the Pacific | Hannah Ketcherside |
| Vanderbilt University | Cody Markel |
| Wayne State University | Adrianna Waack |
