In most years, the Big Country is too big and too deep in talent for it not to compete for state championships across the spectrum of sports. And the calendar year of 2025 was no different, with multiple state titles taken at various levels. 

So many, in fact, that most of our Top 10 area sports stories for 2025 involved an area team taking a state title.

Here, we take a look at those stories in descending order, counting down to No. 1.