It’s time to voice your opinion! Vote for who the Gainesville-area’s best Girls Cross Country runner was in the 2025 season out of seven nominees.
Hear Oak Hall’s Estella Collante discuss being named Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year
Oak Hall’s Estella Collante is the Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year. Hear her thoughts on what it means to win the honor.
- The Gainesville Sun is releasing its All-Area teams for five fall high school sports.
- Each All-Area team will be accompanied by a fan poll to select a Player of the Year.
- The Gainesville Sun selected Oak Hall’s Estella Collante as its Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year.
- Fans can vote for their choice for Girls Cross Country Runner of the Year until December 28.
After months filled with excitement and tears of happiness and sadness, the fall sports season is officially over in the Gainesville area.
The end of the season marks the release of the Gainesville Sun’s All-Area teams. As such, we’ll be releasing 12 All-Area teams for five fall sports (football, volleyball, swim and dive, cross country and golf).
All teams can be viewed on Gainesville.com/sports/high-school. For all these sports, we’re picking a Player of the Year — the athlete we and area coaches thought was the best.
However, we want to give you, the fans, the chance to make your voice heard.
That’s why we’re releasing Player of the Year polls to accompany each All-Area teams. Each of the first-team nominees in a respective sport will be a candidate.
Below is the poll for the best girls cross country runner in 2025. We released this team Thursday and picked Oak Hall’s Estella Collante as our Runner of the Year. There are 7 nominees to choose from, and you can vote as many times as you’d like. The poll closes at 12 p.m. on Monday, December 29.
Please share this poll with family and friends, and congratulations to all those on the All-Area teams and their families!
Noah Ram covers Florida Gators athletics and Gainesville-area high school sports for The Gainesville Sun, GatorSports.com and the USA TODAY Network. Contact him at nram@gannett.com. Follow him on X @Noah_ram1 and on Instagram @Ramreporter. Read his coverage of the Gators’ national championship basketball season in “CHOMP-IONS!” — a hardcover coffee-table collector’s book from The Sun. Details at Florida.ChampsBook.com