The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is proud to honor area high school sports programs with our annual Sarasota-Manatee High School Sports Awards, which was held on Friday, May 30, 2025, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota.

Throughout the year, The Herald-Tribune selects an All-Area team in each FHSAA sport. From those teams, we select Players of the Year for every sport, and also an overall Boys Athlete of the Year.

We selected Venice High football standout Jamarice Wilder as our Boys Athlete of the Year. We then asked you, our readers, to vote and select the athlete you think deserved to be the Athlete of the Year.

After a week of voting, you selected Saint Stephen's Episcopal School's weightlifter Corbin Franklin with 57.94% of the vote. the 129-pound Franklin finished first

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