Jordan Anthony of Arkansas & Doris Lemngole of Alabama win The Bowerman for 2025...
GRAPEVINE, Texas--Sprinter Jordan Anthony of Arkansas and steeplechaser Doris Lemngole of Alabama (Paul Merca photos) were selected by a panel of national and regional media personnel, track & field statisticians, NCAA collegiate administrators, past winners, presidents of affiliated organizations, fans and members of the USTFCCCA as the 2025 Bowerman Award winners in a ceremony in conjunction with the USTFCCCA Convention Thursday night at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center outside of Dallas.
The Bowerman Award is presented to the most outstanding collegiate male and female athlete of the 2025 season, and is the sport's equivalent to football's Heisman Trophy and basketball's Wooden Award.
Anthony edged a standout group of finalists that also included Baylor’s Nathaniel Ezekiel and Auburn’s Ja’Kobe Tharp. Ezekiel became the first athlete in collegiate history to break 48 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles four times, while Tharp swept the 60- and 110-meter hurdle titles with all-time top-five marks in both events.
The former Razorback earned the title of “Fastest Man in Collegiate Track & Field” after completing the 60-meter/100-meter double at the NCAA Championships in 2025. Anthony won the 60 meters back in March and then stormed to victory in the 100 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene.
He also finished fourth in the 200 at the outdoor championships and anchored the Razorbacks to a third place finish in the 4 x 100 relay. He is the third male athlete from Arkansas to win The Bowerman, joining 2023 winner Jaydon Hibbert and 2016 winner Jarrion Lawson.
Lemngole, the first collegian to break 9 minutes in the steeplechase when she ran 8:58.15 at the NCAA championships in Eugene, edged out Bowerman finalists Pamela Kosgei of New Mexico, who won the 5000 and 10000 at nationals, and Savannah Sutherland of Michigan, the 400 hurdles champion who in the process of winning the national title, shattered Sydney McLaughlin’s collegiate record.
Lemngole in 2025 only lost once on the track in the 2025 season at the NCAA indoor championships in the 3000, where she finished second. Every other race cumulated in victory.
She started out the 2025 campaign in early December 2024 by setting a collegiate record in the 5000 in Boston, running 14:52.57, a mark that was broken a few weeks ago by Jane Hedengren of BYU, who ran 14:44.79 on December 6th.
The Alabama standout capped off her 2025 track season by finishing fifth in the steeplechase at the World Athletics championships in Tokyo, where she ran 9:02.39 in the finals.
Lemngole is the first Alabama athlete to win The Bowerman and extended the SEC’s streak to seven consecutive women’s awards.
NOTE: The USTFCCCA contributed to this report.
Publisher Paul Merca is a national media voter of The Bowerman Award.
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