Megan Rapinoe. Runners-up: Tiger Woods, Giannis Antetokounmpo
Here's December, which has the full list of the eligible athletes.
Tiger, pun intended, was the leader in the clubhouse following his Masters win - George Foreman won the award the year he came back to become Heavyweight Champion again, that Tiger Woods won the Masters this year made him the presumptive leader - but the rest of his year was really quiet, for US sports, the dominant team this year (and on the short list for dominant US teams of the era, which is at the front of the mind given that the decade is ending) is the Womens Soccer Team, and so the edge goes to Rapinoe.
It's hard for a team athlete to get the award without both a dominant year and a title - Giannis, Harden, Lamar Jackson, Trout all have the former and Kawhi has the latter, but it's hard to move any ahead of the rest. Simone Biles wasn't eligible as she didn't get a monthly award, but had she been she would have been in the top 3.
That ends the decade - tomorrow - the Athlete of the Decade Award.
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