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Carson McCalley and Jack Dodge won The Amazing Race Season 37. The Brooklyn best friends and Dungeons & Dragons game streamers finished ahead of sibling runners-up Han and Holden Nguyen and married couple Jonathan and Ana Towns. The season began with 14 two-person teams; the standings below follow the completed-season recap published by What to Watch.
Season 37 cast and final placements
Season 37 featured 14 teams, which CBS Colorado described as the show’s largest cast at the time of its February 5, 2025 report. The table lists all 14 teams in reported finishing order. Background details are included where the cited sources provide them; this is not a complete official biography roster.
| Place | Team | Relationship and reported background |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carson McCalley and Jack Dodge | Best friends from Brooklyn; Dungeons & Dragons game streamers. |
| 2 | Han and Holden Nguyen | Siblings and the season’s youngest competitors, according to What to Watch. Han was a former energy consultant; Holden was a Stanford student. |
| 3 | Jonathan and Ana Towns | Married couple. |
| 4 | Alyssa and Josiah Borden | Married nurse anesthetists from Philadelphia. |
| 5 | Brett Hamby and Mark Romain | Married couple. |
| 6 | Melinda and Erika Papadeas | Mother and daughter. CBS Colorado reported that Melinda, 66 at the time of its February 2025 article, worked in administration and lived in Chandler, Arizona; Erika, 32 at the time, was a client engagement specialist from Englewood, Colorado. |
| 7 | Nick and Mike Fiorito | Brothers and podcasters. |
| 8 | Jeff “Pops” Bailey and Jeff Bailey | Father and son; both were lumberjacks. |
| 9 | Scott and Lori Thompson | Married couple. |
| 10 | Bernie Gutierrez and Carrigain Scadden | Best friends. CBS Colorado identified Bernie, 31 at the time of its February 2025 report, as a Dallas personal trainer and Carrigain, 33 at the time, as a Denver spa educator. |
| 11 | Courtney Ramsey and Jasmin Carey | Dating nurses. |
| 12 | Ernest and Bridget Cato | Father and daughter from Chicago. |
| 13 | Mark Crawford and Larry Graham | Retired firefighters; eliminated after choosing the dance option in the opening Fork in the Road. |
| 14 | Jackye Clayton and Lauren McKinney | Sisters; chose the singing option in the opening Fork in the Road. |
Placement and most team descriptions in the table come from What to Watch’s completed-season recap, updated May 16, 2025. The regional contestant details and ages as reported in February 2025 come from CBS Colorado; those ages are not necessarily current.
Why the opening leg changed the cast immediately
The season opened in Hong Kong with a Fork in the Road: teams had to choose between parallel options. CBS’s episode guide says the twist led to two eliminations. The completed-season recap identifies Jackye Clayton and Lauren McKinney as choosing singing and Mark Crawford and Larry Graham as choosing dancing; both teams left in the opening leg.
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- Bulgaria: CBS described the season’s visit as the show’s first time racing there; the legs also featured a double U-Turn and an Express Pass.
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The final three represented three different kinds of partnerships: McCalley and Dodge raced as best friends, Han and Holden Nguyen as siblings, and Jonathan and Ana Towns as a married couple. The full reported standings also show a wide range of relationships across the cast, from parents and children to siblings, friends, dating partners and married teams.
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For the two Colorado-connected teams, CBS Colorado’s February 5, 2025 article provided additional local context about the Papadeas mother-daughter team and best friends Bernie Gutierrez and Carrigain Scadden. The same report attributed this statement to both The Amazing Race co-creators and executive producers Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri: “For our season of surprises, there is no end to the drama, twists and turns until we see who the winners are!”
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