Each week during the school year the Sarasota Herald-Tribune selects girls athletes that stood out the week before based on a combination of coach reports and school nominations sent to sports htincoming@gmail.com and our coverage. Those athletes are put in a poll sponsored by Central Florida Behavioral Health Network, Inc. each Monday on heraldtribune.com and you, our readers, vote on who you think did it best. To get to know our winners better, the Herald-Tribune will have a question-and-answer session with each athlete weekly.

The Herald-Tribune Girls Athlete of the Week sponsored by Central Florida Behavioral Health Network for Oct. 13-18, 2025 was Braden River volleyball player Chloe Pogoda, who won the poll with 45.49% of the vote. Pogoda, a senior, had 12 kills, 10 digs, two

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