Seven athletes are nominees for BET Sportswoman of the Year. Three of them are from LSU.

Seven female athletes are nominees for BET’s Sportswoman of the Year award. Three of them are from LSU.

LSU power forward Angel Reese, former point guard Alexis Morris and former sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson are all up for the honor, which will be announced as part of the BET Awards show June 25.

Reese and Morris led the Tigers to the national championship in April, capping Kim Mulkey’s second season at LSU.

Reese averaged 23.0 points and 15.4 rebounds and led the nation with 34 double-doubles en route to becoming a first-team All-American.

She will play in Mexico next month as part of the 2023 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team. She’s had quite a summer already.

Morris dominated the fourth quarter of LSU’s 102-85 win over Iowa in the national championship game, finishing with 21 points and nine assists.

Morris was the Tigers’ second-leading scorer with 15.4 points and 4.1 assists this season.

The Connecticut Sun selected her No. 22 overall in the WNBA draft a week later, then cut Morris at the end of the preseason.

Richardson, a 23-year-old Dallas native, won the 2019 NCAA championship with LSU and became an international superstar during the 2021 U.S. Olympic trials.

She accepted a one-month ban after testing positive for cannabis, missing the Olympics. Richardson has been on a tear this spring. The No. 1-ranked 100-meter sprinter in the world, she scratched at the L.A. Grand Prix two weeks ago but had broken a meet record in Doha, Qatar, earlier in May with a time of 10.76 seconds.

The other nominees for BET Sportswoman of the Year are longtime U.S. sprinter Allyson Felix, basketball legend Candace Parker and tennis superstars Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams.