Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr will not defend her Rogue Invitational title this year. After slowly announcing the 18 automatic invites for the women’s field (two athletes were invited from the Q), Toomey-Orr was not announced.
Toomey-Orr came off a victory in 2024 at the Rogue Invitational, a year after taking second place behind Laura Horvath in 2023…just five months removed from giving birth to her daughter, Willow.
The 20-athlete women’s field is now headlined by Laura Horvath, but Toomey-Orr’s absence definitely makes it a much wide open field. Horvath might be considered the favorite heading into Scotland, but she will undoubtedly be challenged by athletes like Emma Tall, Lucy Campbell, Arielle Loewen and others.
Aimee Cringle also declined her invite due to an ongoing injury.
Toomey-Orr has not publicly stated why she will not compete in Scotland this year.
Here are the men’s and women’s rosters of the 2025 Rogue Invitational:
| Men | Women |
| Uldis Upenieks (Q) | Elisa Fuliano (Q) |
| Fabian Hermans (Q) | Paige Powers (Q) |
| Colten Mertens (Invite) | Grace Walton (Invite) |
| Henrik Haapalainen (Invite) | Paige Semenza (Invite) |
| Gui Malheiros (Invite) | Lucy Campbell (Invite) |
| Chandler Smith (Invite) | Olivia Kerstetter (Invite) |
| Noah Ohlsen (Invite) | Abigail Domit (Invite) |
| Sam Kwant (Invite) | Dani Speegle (Invite) |
| Austin Hatfield (Invite) | Emma Tall (Invite) |
| Jonne Koski (Invite) | Haley Adams (Invite) |
| B.K. Gudmundsson (Invite) | Manon Angonese (Invite) |
| James Sprague (Invite) | Emily Rolfe (Invite) |
| Pat Vellner (Invite) | Maddie Sturt (Invite) |
| Jay Crouch (Invite) | Brooke Wells (Invite) |
| Roman Khrennikov (Invite) | Emma Lawson (Invite) |
| Justin Medeiros (Invite) | Arielle Loewen (Invite) |
| Dallin Pepper (Invite) | Danielle Brandon (Invite) |
| Ricky Garard (Invite) | Alexis Raptis (Invite) |
| Jayson Hopper (Invite) | Alex Gazan (Invite) |
| Jeff Adler (Invite) | Laura Horvath (Invite) |
Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr has won the Rogue Invitational four times since 2019 (2019, 2020, 2021 & 2024). She finished in 2nd place in 2023 and sat out 2022 due to pregnancy.
The 2025 Rogue Invitational is October 31- November 2 in Aberdeen, Scotland. The total prize purse for the Individual and Strongman/woman competition is currently just under $1.55 million. First place in the men’s and women’s individual competition is currently slated to win $229,385.21.
