VOTE for the 2025 Florida Girls' Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Please select from the four candidates below. The results of the poll will not determine this year's winner, but you --the athletes, coaches, and parents -- will impact the decision. All four of the candidates have had outstanding 2025 seasons. The poll will close on Sunday, June 8th, at midnight, and the winner will be announced on Monday.
Margaret Bartlow of North Bay Haven distinguished herself this season, running a 10:13.56 in the 3200m in a second-place finish in the RunningLane Track Championship 3200m. Only three Florida girls have run faster. The senior was also ranked No. 5 in Florida in the 1600m with a 4:52.43. Bartlow, headed to Florida State next year, won the 2A girls' state 3200m in a dominant performance in 10:20.31 and was second in the 1600m in 4:56.21. She was also the FHSAA 2A state XC champion last fall.
Senior Tyra Cox of Miami Northwestern was the No.1 ranked girl in the 100m, 200m and 400m in the state. She was named as the 2025 Florida Girls Sprint & Hurdles Athlete of the Year. We first saw her as a freshman on the state scene in 2022, and in 2024, she won the 100m, 200m, and 400m at the 3A State meet. She was third in the 100m this year in 11.77, but demonstrated her overall speed and strength once again in the 200m with a 22.99 win and in the 400m with a U.S.-leading 51.44 400m. She is a three-time 400m 3A State champion, and her 51.44 400m ranks her in elite company in Florida at No. 2 all-time behind only Sanya Richards-Ross of St. Thomas Aquinas, who ran 50.69 in 2002.
Senior Elizabeth Dowdy of the Maclay School, and Auburn commit, for won her 4th Straight 1A Pole Vault Title and was named the 2025 MileSplit FL Girls Field Event Athlete of the Year! This year, she was the top vaulter across all divisions, setting an all-time Florida state record of 4.05 (13'-03.50") at the Pepsi Florida Relays. On the track at the State meet, Dowdy was 5th in the 1A 100mH with a 15.09 and led off the Maclay girls winning 4x100 m relay.
Senior Chelsi Williams of George Jenkins started her season of indoors with a 3rd in the 60mH at the Nike Indoor Championships (8.25). Outdoors she was undefeated this season in the 100mH, the Long Jump and the Triple Jump. She defended her 4A 100mh championship with a 13.66 and at the Florida Relays she ran a Florida No. 4 all-time 13.28 in the 100mH. She won both the Long Jump and the Triple Jump at State with leaps of 6.17 and 12.51, respectively. In the Long Jump, her 6.31 jump at the 4A Region 2 championships placed her at Florida No. 3 all-time in the Long Jump.