Flo Hyman Award

The Flo Hyman Memorial Award was conferred annually between 1987 and 2004 by the Women's Sports Foundation in Washington, D.C., United States, on the organization's National Girls and Women in Sports Day to the female sportsperson, irrespective of nationality or sport contested, adjudged to have "capture[d] [best]...the dignity, spirit, and commitment to excellence" of American indoor volleyballer Flo Hyman, an advocate for gender equality in sport and for the passage of Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988 who died suddenly and unexpectedly in January 1986. The award was given with respect both to athletic performance and to charitable activism, especially in the context of "[increasing] sports opportunities for all girls and women".