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 who the best Big School Volleyball Player was in 2025. We released this team Tuesday and picked Gainesville High’s Rowan Kage as our Player of the Year. There are 8 nominees to choose from, and you can vote as many times as you’d like. The poll closes at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31.
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
This article originally appeared on The Gainesville Sun: Who was the best Big School Volleyball Player in the 2025 season? Vote now!
Reporting by Noah Ram, Gainesville Sun / The Gainesville Sun
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