World champions Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and Rai Benjamin were named USA Track and Field Female and Male Athletes of the Year for 2025.
Jefferson-Wooden won the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Award after becoming the first American woman to sweep the 100m, 200m and 4x100m at a single World Championships.
She won over fellow nominees and world champions Valarie Allman (discus), Tara Davis-Woodhall (long jump), Anna Hall (heptathlon), Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (400m, 4x400m) and Katie Moon (pole vault). McLaughlin-Levrone won the World Athletics Female Athlete of the Year for 2025.
