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Bulldawg Girls Take to the Mats, led by 3-Time State Champion Alyssa Sedillo

A Las Cruces Digest Report
Photo: Screenshot Courtesy New Mexico Activities Association, Facebook

Seventy student athletes from our broader community competed in last year’s State Wrestling Championships. Of those, twenty were girls. NMAA hosted its first Girls Wrestling Tournament in 2018, and sanctioned the Girls Wrestling Division in 2020. Among the highlights of last season was the outstanding performance of Las Cruces High School “featherweight”, Alyssa Sedillo. Sedillo felled all of her opponents in route to her third straight state title.

She is starting out the 2024-2025 season on track to defend a title that she has held since 2021, taking first place at the Irvin Invitational in El Paso. As a team, the Lady Bulldawgs placed second overall, with the following notable individual placements:

100 – 1st Alyssa Sedillo
107 – 2nd Emberlyn Atma
114 – 4th Autiana Caro
120 – 2nd Amethyst Gaytan
132 – 4th Angelique Terrazas
138 – 3rd Paige Atma
152 – 2nd Jacky Castille
165 – 3rd Ellie Zoller

^{LCHS Lady Bulldawgs (Courtesy: Facebook)}

The Lady Braves of Santa Teresa took the team title with three wrestlers winning their weight class:

Individual Champions were:

Anahi Parra 114
Mia Esparza 152
Roxy Herrera 185

^{Santa Teresa Desert Warriors (Courtesy: Facebook)}

The Desert Warrior Boys team came in 4th. Boys Champions:

Isiah Sanchez 165
Victor Caro 133

The Las Cruces High School Boys took first in the tournament, led by a top finish by young Kolby Gonzales. Gonzales finished 3rd in last year’s state championships… as an 8th grader. This year, he is officially a freshman, and poised to make a run at the title come February.

^{LCHS Bulldawgs Boys Wrestling with Irvin Invitational trophy. (Courtesy: Facebook)}

Bulldawg Boys Individual placements:

106 – 3rd Ryan Wedekind
113 – 2nd Christopher Korody
120 – 3rd Killian Rios
132 – 3rd – German Banda-Hernandez
138 – 2nd Rowan Langell
144 – 1st Kolby Gonzales
157 – 2nd Isaiah Chavez
285 – 4th Sebastian Urbina

A Note to Readers About Wrestling

Wrestling is a very difficult sport to cover. Each team competes in different events over the course of the season, and their schedules are not usually published. Las Cruces Digest monitors Facebook, and will write stories about our local wrestlers if there is information to be found. Please feel free to reach out to us if we fail to cover an event you are interested in.

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