One python huntress who won a prize in the 2025 Python Challenge has taken a sabbatical from her corporate job to pursue her ...

Her name is Taylor Stanberry and thanks to finding and eliminating 60 pythons in July, she's the 2025 winner of the Florida Python Challenge.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced the winners of the 2025 Florida Python Challenge™ on Wednesday.

The 2025 Florida Python Challenge was won by a woman for the first time ever. Here's who Taylor Stanberry is and how many pythons she caught.

What is the Florida Python Challenge? The Florida Python Challenge is a ten-day competition encouraging participants to remove Burmese pythons from seven Commission-managed lands in South Florida.

A total of 294 Burmese pythons were eliminated during the 2025 Florida Python Challenge – the most of any python challenge since the event started in 2013.

The 2025 Python Challenge removed a record 294 invasive Burmese pythons from Florida ecosystems. The competition drew more than 900 participants from 30 states and Canada.