Notre Dame basketball player Julia Mingus won the fans' choice for 2025 Journal Star Female Athlete of the Year, winning a vote of five players of the year across the 2024-25 school year.

During the match, Deng' Kei (another Sudanese) emerged as the top scorer with 22 points as his compatriot Awol Atam of Stafford Boys topped his team's scoring-chart with 12 points in the final.