Big 12 Announces Schedule for 2025-26 Athlete of the Year Nominee Spotlights, With BYU Featured

The Big 12 Conference has set a multi-day presentation schedule for its 2025-26 Athlete of the Year nominee spotlights, and BYU’s nominees are included in the run of school-by-school features that begins Monday, July 13 and continues through Wednesday, July 22.

According to the conference, the nominees will be displayed in alphabetical order by school, with the daily installments airing at two set times. Each day’s presentation is scheduled for 11 a.m. CT and again at 2 p.m. CT, giving fans two windows to follow the sequence of teams as the conference proceeds through its lineup of schools.

For BYU, the appearance of its Athlete of the Year nominees in this format places the Cougars in the spotlight during a period when the league is drawing attention to individual standouts across its member programs. The “Athlete of the Year” designation is typically one of the conference’s marquee honors, and the nominee phase is meant to highlight players who helped set the tone for their teams during the 2025-26 season.

While the Big 12 release establishes the timing and structure of the nominee series, it does not provide, in the portion of information available here, the specific names or event-by-event achievements for BYU’s candidates. Readers will need to look to the individual BYU nominee spotlight(s) released as part of the week’s alphabetical sequence to see which Cougars are included and what context the conference provides for each athlete.

The conference’s approach suggests an emphasis on visibility and narrative-building across its programs rather than a single all-at-once announcement. With the schedule split into two daily time slots and spread across multiple days, the nominee rollout is designed to maintain attention as each school’s athletes are introduced.

What to watch next is straightforward. The BYU nominee highlights will begin when the series reaches BYU in the alphabetical order, and the conference’s daily 11 a.m. CT and 2 p.m. CT publication pattern will determine when each athlete-related item becomes available to the public. After the spotlights, the focus will shift toward the ultimate selection of the conference’s Athlete of the Year and how the league’s voting or criteria ultimately weigh the full season.