Evelin Tavares Pires is November Athlete of the Month

With three top cross country performances on successive weekends, EvelinTavares Pires of Boston is the USATF New England Athlete of the Month for November 2025.

Competing unattached, the 18 year old won the age 15-18 races at both the New England Junior Olympic Championship and the Region 1 Championships on November 16 and 23,. respectively, at Highland Park in Attleboro MA.  She ended the month with a 13th place finish in the Brooks Scholastic Northeast Regional Championship on November 29 at Boston's Franklin Park.

The 12th grader at the Woodward School in Quincy (which has no cross country program), capped her season in December with a bronze medal third place finish in the age 17-18 division at the USATF National Junior Olympic Championship on December 13 in Indiana. 

Tavares Pires came into the month after a third place in the Mayor's Cup 5K open race in October and starting the fall campaign with a fifth place in September's Codfish Bowl. She'll attend and run for Northeastern University next fall.

Photo: Mark Mathis