Angel Reese responds to her latest achievement, bagging the 2023 James J. Corbett Award for Top Female Athlete at Louisiana

Angel Reese and Dylan Crews won it all last season to ensure that LSU was the home of multiple titles after both the women's basketball and men's baseball teams emerged as 2023 national champions.

With all the upward mobility of the Reese name currently and Dylan Crews being picked No. 2 overall to the Washington Nationals, there were only ever going to be two certain winners in the men's and women's categories of Louisiana's top athlete's award.

On Friday, Angel Reese won the James J. Corbett Award as Louisiana's best amateur athlete alongside Dylan Crews.

By all accounts, Reese had an impressive campaign last season, leading the SEC in several key categories. She averaged 23.0 points and 15.4 rebounds, the highest average in the conference.

The Corbett award adds to a growing pile of personal recognition for Angel Reese after she won the Best Breakthrough Award at this year's ESPYs, beating out archrival Caitlin Clark.

This came after she won the BET Award for Sportswoman of the Year barely a month ago.

After leading LSU to the national championship, Reese was also controversially awarded the Most Outstanding Player over Iowa's Caitlin Clark, who broke several records during the NCAA tournament.

Basketball fans on social media inundated her Twitter handle and congratulated her on her win.

Reese is not just winning awards, but she's also winning in the NIL deals department. Barely a week after being named as one of 'The Rock's Warriors' on a NIL deal promoting Dwayne 'The Rock' Jhonson's energy drink, ZOA, she bagged another major deal.

In a cushy Amazon advertisement, Reese and her LSU teammate, Flau'Jae Johnson, appear in a commercial catering to college students furnishing their dorm rooms. It showed how far Reese has come since her eventful March Madness appearance.

In what was a crossover, the 'Bayou Barbie' also appeared in a video with other NIL top-earners, the Cavinder twins, at the ESPYs while dancing to "Barbie World" by Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj.

The video went viral within a week, showing the endless possibilities that exist for student-athletes in the NIL-social media era and why brands can't get enough of them.

Angel Reese's thriving social life

Angel Reese is winning on and off the court, as her social life is also thriving.

Reese capitalized on her fame and numerous brand endorsement deals to launch her foundation, the Angel C. Reese Foundation, which is being praised as a positive step towards equity for female athletes.

After months of speculation, Reese recently admitted that she was in a relationship with Florida State prospect Cam'Ron Fletcher. Since then, she has shown her 2.3 million Instagram and 37,000 Twitter followers glimpses into their relationship.

About the author

Cabral Opiyo is a journalist who covers college sports at Sportskeeda. With work experience spanning over 10 years, Cabral is an avid follower of college football and basketball and what goes into making the perfect elite prospect. He brings the news as it happens and analyzes football games to a high degree of accuracy.

As a writer, he loves bringing to life historical and iconic moments with his writing, fueled by extensive and verifiable research, creating an image in the reader's eyes.

Cabral has been known to sneak away from a high-profile NBA game to catch an obscure college basketball game and is an avid re-watcher of Tim Duncan and San Antonio Spurs games from the 2000s.

UConn winning its first national title under Dan Hurley remains his best college sports moment. Cabral rates A'ja Wilson and Caitlin Clark as his favorite players due to their productivity and the Alabama Crimson Tide as his favorite college team.

In addition, Cabral follows football and is a huge Italian and Brazilian football fan. He has written about football for a decade and held a byline with Outside of the Boot Football.

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