The 2025 Professional winner in the Sports & Outdoors category is IXI Autonomous Golf Trolley created by the Future Wave team of Joachim Froment, Quentin Desclee, Thoma Velghe, and engineers at Botorincs. The iXi Golf Trolley offers a fully autonomous, self-driving solution that follows players seamlessly on the course. It solves the problem of manually pushing or pulling heavy golf trolleys, reducing physical strain and allowing golfers to focus entirely on their game.

The Student Sports & Outdoors winner is Ventus T&F Speedsuit by Jacob Kauff from the University of Oregon, Sports Product Design MSc. The Ventus T&F Speedsuit is a distance-specific track and field suit designed to address hot weather conditions expected at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The Ventus speedsuit features small 3D-printed TPU blades, known as vortex generators, which help disrupt the air flow around the body, reducing aerodynamic drag.

The jury team for Sports & Outdoors category was led by Jury Captain Tyler Gilbert, the Design Director at Tyler Gilbert Design. His jury team included Greg Janky, the Principal Designer at Anvil Studios, Bridget Stephas, a Gear Designer at REI, and Kate Locke-Peck, the Director of Footwear Design at Brooks Running.

The 2025 Sports & Outdoors category celebrates consumer products or services created to encourage play, movement, or learning including toys, games, athletic equipment, athletic wear and accessories, and outdoor gear and equipment.