Sorenstam Sportswoman of Year

Women's Sports Foundation also honors volleyball duo

? The accolades, like her putts, just keep rolling in for Annika Sorenstam.

Sorenstam, a six-time winner on the LPGA Tour this season, was named Sportswoman of the Year by the Women’s Sports Foundation Monday at the Waldorf Astoria.

She joined Olympic beach volleyball gold medalists Misty May and Kerri Walsh, who were honored in the team category.

The 34-year-old Sorenstam is fresh off a come-from-behind win at the Samsung World Championship on Sunday. She chipped in a 40-footer from the fringe for an eagle 3 on No. 15 en route to her 54th career LPGA victory.

“It’s a great honor because (the Foundation is) striving every day to make more opportunities for girls and women available,” she said in a statement.

The Women’s Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King, is marking its 30th anniversary. The awards dinner raises more than $1 million annually for education and grant programs for girls and women in sports.

Forty Athens Olympians met with President Bush at the White House before attending the dinner.

Sorenstam, who qualified for the LPGA Hall of Fame last year, has won seven major championships and the career Grand Slam. She’s the only woman to shoot 59.

May and Walsh won gold in Athens without losing a set in seven matches. On match point against Brazil, Walsh hammered a spike and fell to her knees. May ran to embrace her and both fell backward, hugging in the sand.

Tennis standout Maria Bueno, Olympic swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Texas women’s track coach Beverly Kearney were inducted into the International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame.

Julie Krone, the winningest female jockey with 3,704 career wins, received the Wilma Rudolph Courage Award. She is the only woman to win a Triple Crown race and a Breeders’ Cup event.

Olympic and world champion figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi won the Flo Hyman Memorial Award.