VOTE for the 2025 Las Cruces Sun-News Male Athlete of the Year

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Voting is now open for the 2025 Las Cruces Sun-News Male Athlete of the Year award.

100 nominees have been chosen by the Sun-News across Las Cruces-area schools, including Las Cruces, Mayfield, Organ Mountain, Centennial, Mesilla Valley Christian, Gadsden, Santa Teresa, Chaparral and Hatch Valley. They have been chosen from football, basketball, baseball, soccer, track and field, cross country, wrestling and golf teams from all nine of those schools.

The nominees represented themselves, their schools and their communities in the best possible way they could during their respective seasons. They each accomplished something notable and made their friends, family, coaches and loved ones proud. They were All-State players, All-District players, strong performers at state championships, or members of the Sun-News' Super Teams.

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Voting for this honor will be open for the remainder of the month and will conclude at 11:45 p.m. on Jan. 31. The winner will be announced shortly thereafter. There are no restrictions, so vote now and vote often.

The 2024 winner was Mayfield basketball's Fernie Corona. To ensure a new winner, so that someone else can be recognized and have their story told, Corona is not included in this year's poll.

Please remember these things as you vote:

• Some of the nominees played multiple sports. However, the ones that are will only be listed in the sport in which they were best or most accomplished in 2025.
• Some athletes may no longer be at their respective schools because they have graduated. However, they still participated in high school sports in 2025.
• It is preferred that voters cast their ballots for the athlete you believe had the best year or accomplished the most out of all the nominees. However, you may vote for whoever you want.

If you believe someone should be nominated who isn't, please email Nick Coppola at [email protected].

Here are the nominees:

• Las Cruces football's Gunnar Guardiola
• Las Cruces football's Daniel Amaro
• Las Cruces football's Denton Walter
• Las Cruces football's Hunter Parmeter
• Las Cruces football's Isaac Gomez
• Las Cruces football's Gracin Poe
• Las Cruces football's Vaughn Romney
• Mayfield football's Xavier Ochoa
• Mayfield football's Marcus Castillo
• Mayfield football's Angel Herrera
• Centennial football's Dailen Ramirez
• Centennial football's Andrew Sandoval
• Centennial football's Joseph Bitar
• Organ Mountain football's Zeke Weir
• Gadsden football's Jacob Escobedo
• Gadsden football's Luis Loya
• Gadsden football's Rocky Rodriguez
• Gadsden football's Armando Ramirez
• Gadsden football's Juan Rios
• Chaparral football's Raul Lopez
• Chaparral football's Jesse Ibarra
• Hatch Valley football's Peet Bothma
• Hatch Valley football's Demarcus Alaniz
• Mesilla Valley Christian football's Levi Lang
• Mesilla Valley Christian football's Payton Tharp
• Centennial soccer's Tyler Ward
• Centennial soccer's Nicholas Raitt
• Centennial soccer's Victor Rios
• Centennial soccer's Diego De La Cruz
• Centennial soccer's Triton Snider
• Mayfield soccer's Ernesto Torres
• Mayfield soccer's Emilio Esparza
• Mayfield soccer's Reymundo Carranza
• Organ Mountain soccer's Nikolas Apodaca
• Organ Mountain soccer's Maddon Ochoa
• Las Cruces soccer's Moises Lucio
• Organ Mountain cross country's Daxton Coombs
• Organ Mountain cross country's Aiden Poppy
• Organ Mountain cross country's Beaux Beasley
• Las Cruces cross country's Jacob Sierra
• Centennial cross country's Keller Ford
• Centennial cross country's Ethan Mondragon
• Organ Mountain basketball's Lenny Washington
• Organ Mountain basketball's Ethan Coomes
• Organ Mountain basketball's Emmitt McDaniel
• Organ Mountain basketball's Ethan Pack
• Mayfield basketball's Hector Gallegos
• Mayfield basketball's Samuel Biad
• Las Cruces basketball's Jayden Brisby
• Las Cruces basketball's Bird Nevarez
• Las Cruces basketball's Dom Luttrell
• Centennial basketball's Kouliebchen Tou
• Mesilla Valley Christian basketball's Camden Daves
• Mesilla Valley Christian basketball's Darion Williams
• Santa Teresa basketball's Adrian Luna
• Santa Teresa basketball's Raymund Zavala
• Gadsden basketball's Jose Alvarez
• Centennial baseball's Cole Alons
• Centennial baseball's Israel Molina
• Centennial baseball's Gilberto Torres
• Las Cruces baseball's Joaquin Pfeiffer
• Las Cruces baseball's Xander Parra
• Las Cruces baseball's Nick Rojas
• Las Cruces baseball's Wyatt Major
• Organ Mountain baseball's Eren De Leon
• Organ Mountain baseball's Devyn Garcés
• Organ Mountain baseball's Eric Gomez
• Mayfield baseball's Nolan Matejcek
• Mayfield baseball's Hunter Chavez
• Mesilla Valley Christian baseball's Jeremiah Sullivan
• Gadsden baseball's Adan Reyes
• Santa Teresa baseball's Ardon Luna
• Santa Teresa baseball's Jackson Simpson
• Chaparral baseball's Michael Molina
• Organ Mountain track and field's Corbin Coombs
• Organ Mountain track and field's Jeron Wisner
• Santa Teresa track and field's Jacob Martinez
• Santa Teresa track and field's David Ballantine
• Centennial track and field's Luke Matherly
• Centennial track and field's Colin Hildebrandt
• Centennial track and field's Omar Terrones
• Mayfield track and field's Miles Odom
• Las Cruces track and field's Lukas Evans
• Las Cruces track and field's Denzel Kapkirwok
• Chaparral track and field's Damian Mendiola
• Las Cruces wrestling's Armando Ortiz
• Las Cruces wrestling's Kolby Gonzales
• Las Cruces wrestling's Carlos Gamboa
• Las Cruces wrestling's Alessio Cisneros
• Centennial wrestling's Brayden Lundien
• Centennial wrestling's Keegan Engel
• Organ Mountain wrestling's Paul Sanchez
• Gadsden wrestling's Mathius Soto
• Santa Teresa wrestling's Isiah Sanchez
• Centennial golf's Jordan Trujillo
• Centennial golf's Chico Duran
• Centennial golf's Ty Dollar
• Mesilla Valley Christian's Tanner Gentry
• Mesilla Valley Christian's Beau Barker
• Mesilla Valley Christian's Nolan Gentry

VOTE HERE​

This article originally appeared on Las Cruces Sun-News: VOTE in 2025 Las Cruces Sun-News Male Athlete of the Year poll

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