NCAA & WNBA APIs – Awards Endpoints

We've added two new awards-based endpoints to the following APIs: NCAA Football, NCAA Men's Basketball, NCAA Women's Basketball, and WNBA. Use these feeds to access award definitions and seasonal award recipients.

Awards List: Provides a list of all awards available in the API.
Seasonal Awards: Provides all award recipients for a given season and season type.

⭐ Benefit

With these endpoints, access award data for honors such as Most Valuable Player, National Champions, Heisman Trophy winners, Rookies of the Year, and more. Track annual recipients going forward to enrich your player and team profiles.

📋 Recommended Actions

Call the Awards List endpoint to retrieve all award definitions for a league (league-wide, no season parameter), and Seasonal Awards to retrieve recipients for a given season year and season type.
Note the two endpoints have different request shapes: Awards List is /league/awards/list, while Seasonal Awards takes a season year and type (e.g. /seasons/2025/REG/awards). Map each per endpoint rather than assuming one path.
Use the type field (e.g. player, team, coach) to route each award to the right entity, and handle awards with multiple recipients (e.g. All-America teams return several winners under one award).
Join recipients to your existing player and team records via the returned id values to enrich profiles with honors.

☑️ Sample Requests:

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/ncaafb/trial/v7/en/seasons/2025/REG/awards.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/ncaamb/trial/v8/en/league/awards/list.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/wnba/trial/v8/en/seasons/2025/REG/awards.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

curl --request GET \
     --url https://api.sportradar.com/ncaawb/trial/v8/en/league/awards/list.json \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY'

🔢 Products

Sport	Product	Version(s)
Football	NCAA Football API	v7
Basketball	NCAA Men's Basketball	v8
Basketball	NCAA Women's Basketball API	v8
Basketball	WNBA API	v8

🔁 Endpoints Affected

Awards List
Seasonal Awards

⚙️ Return Samples

<league xmlns="http://feed.elasticstats.com/schema/football/awards-v7.0.xsd" id="26c1246a-2fc3-4b7e-8999-1685d3ab4676" name="NCAA Football" alias="NCAAFB">
    <award id="d95a2799-398e-4427-96aa-a715071139d7" name="AP All-America 1st Team" description="Awarded to the top players that season at each position. Typically consists of 3 teams of offensive and defensive players." type="player"/>
    <award id="c6f6c0ab-425d-4ed9-bd8d-009ac34c446a" name="AP All-America 2nd Team" description="Awarded to the top players that season at each position. Typically consists of 3 teams of offensive and defensive players." type="player"/>
    <!-- ...additional awards omitted... -->
</league>

{
    "name": "Rookie of the Year",
    "description": "Awarded to the top rookie of the regular season.",
    "type": "player",
    "effective_date": "2025-09-16",
    "awarded_time_frequency": "annual",
    "awarded_time_period": "2025",
    "id": "18634438-55a4-46d5-b076-647479b23bfd",
    "recipients": [
        {
            "level": "winner",
            "name": "Paige Bueckers",
            "position": "G",
            "id": "80c92207-2597-4132-a34c-3b467a1a81e1",
            "alias": "DAL",
            "market": "Dallas",
            "team": {
                "id": "5f0b5caf-708b-4300-92f2-53b51d83ec06",
                "name": "Wings",
                "alias": "DAL",
                "market": "Dallas"
            }
        }
    ]
},
{
    "name": "Coach of the Year",
    "description": "Awarded to the coach deemed most integral to their team's success.",
    "type": "coach",
    "effective_date": "2025-09-17",
    "awarded_time_frequency": "annual",
    "awarded_time_period": "2025",
    "id": "de6b99ac-a791-4ab8-bc31-b34a6883003b",
    "recipients": [
        {
            "level": "winner",
            "name": "Natalie Nakase",
            "position": "Head Coach",
            "id": "850fba08-59de-48c9-9afe-2cd369e90f2e",
            "alias": "GSV",
            "market": "Golden State",
            "team": {
                "id": "4f57ec40-0d35-4b59-bea0-9d040f0d2292",
                "name": "Valkyries",
                "alias": "GSV",
                "market": "Golden State"
            }
        }
    ]
}
// ...additional awards omitted...

{
    "id": "43241810-acf4-4701-b67a-d7c74b583fde",
    "name": "National Champion",
    "description": "Winner of the NCAA Tournament",
    "type": "team"
},
{
    "id": "5a2bb94e-12ff-4deb-b255-1c0ed3cea413",
    "name": "NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player",
    "description": "Awarded to the most outstanding player in that year's Final Four.",
    "type": "player"
},
{
    "id": "49b233ff-d668-4133-ab9e-5371e6bdae7d",
    "name": "NIT Champion",
    "description": "Winner of the National Invitational Tournament (NIT)",
    "type": "team"
}
// ...additional awards omitted...

<award name="AP All-America 2nd Team" description="Awarded to the best college basketball players in a season. Typically consists of 3 5-player lineups." type="player" effective_date="2026-03-18" awarded_time_frequency="annual" awarded_time_period="2025-26" id="0d779e0b-abea-4378-a313-831b34bfbb43">
<recipient level="winner" name="Olivia Miles" position="G" id="c1b1b9e6-cba5-420c-82cc-ef3de3c09fbc">
</recipient>
</award>
<award name="AP All-America 2nd Team" description="Awarded to the best college basketball players in a season. Typically consists of 3 5-player lineups." type="player" effective_date="2026-03-18" awarded_time_frequency="annual" awarded_time_period="2025-26" id="0d779e0b-abea-4378-a313-831b34bfbb43">
<recipient level="winner" name="Joyce Edwards" position="F" id="d8c36619-a8ef-43a7-ac8a-2154dc13b5fa" alias="SCAR" market="South Carolina">
    <team id="7f4f0451-6b78-4082-9503-ce851e549b0c" name="Gamecocks" alias="SCAR" market="South Carolina"/>
</recipient>
</award>
<!-- ...additional awards omitted... -->