The U.S. Olympic legend—and advocate for athletes and mothers—is the winner of SI’s 2022 Muhammad Ali Legacy Award.
The Muhammad Ali Legacy Award celebrates an individual whose dedication to the ideals of sportsmanship has spanned decades and whose career in athletics has impacted the world.
Everything changed for Allyson Felix when a potentially deadly diagnosis for her and her infant daughter led the baby to the NICU. It was November 2018, and Camryn had been born two months early, via emergency C-section, at just three pounds, eight ounces.
“For the first time in my entire life, track was on the back burner,” Felix says.