Manuel wins Honda Cup honor

LOS ANGELES — Olympic swimming champion Simone Manuel of Stanford on Monday won the Honda Cup as the collegiate woman athlete of the year.

Manuel, who is from Sugar Land, where she swam at Fort Bend Austin High School, became the first black woman to win an individual Olympic gold medal in swimming at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, where she two golds and two silvers.

Manuel was a finalist along with basketball star

A’ja Wilson of South Carolina and track and field sensation Maggie

Ewen of Arizona State.

COLLEGES UT hires White as softball coach

Texas hired Oregon’s

Mike White as its new softball coach.

White led the Ducks to five Women’s College World Series in nine seasons and earned the overall No. 1 seed this season before being eliminated by eventual national champion Florida State. White replaces Connie

Clark, who resigned after Texas was eliminated in the NCAA playoffs this season. She coached the Longhorns for 22 seasons. Her teams went to the NCAA postseason 14 consecutive years, but UT has not made it to WCSW since 2013. In other news:

• Mississippi State hired Indiana’s Chris

Lemonis to be its next baseball coach. Lemonis, 48, led the Hoosiers to the NCAA Tournament in three of the last four years. He will replace interim coach Gary Henderson, who led the Bulldogs on a surprise run to the College World Series after taking over for Andy Cannizaro, who resigned in February for off-the-field conduct.

• A federal appeals court backed an NCAA rule requiring most football players who transfer schools to sit out a year. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld a lower-court finding that NCAA transfer rules don’t violate U.S. antitrust laws. The decision was in a lawsuit brought by Peter Deppe, a former punter for Northern Illinois. The ruling focuses on a requirement that most Division I football players who transfer to another school must sit out a year.

TENNIS Murray unsure about Wimbledon

After his first victory in nearly a year, Andy

Murray was not ready to commit to playing at Wimbledon next week. Murray defeated Stan

Wawrinka 6-1, 6-3 at the Eastbourne International in the second match of his comeback from longterm hip problems. Murray returned last week at the Queen’s Club and lost to Nick Kyrgios in the first round.

Murray said if he believes his body can handle Grand Slam best-offive-set matches, then he will play at Wimbledon, where he has won twice.

“If I don’t, then obviously I won’t play,” Murray said

MISCELLANEOUS Barnes, Rondo power Skeeters

Barrett Barnes hit a three-run homer, and

Alvaro Rondon went 4-for-4 and had two RBIs in the Skeeters’ 8-3 Atlantic League victory over Lancaster at Constellation Field in Sugar Land. … Morton Ranch football assistant coach Stephen

Papp died Saturday from injuries suffered in a car accident. He was 33. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Kingwood.