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Kaselle Davis can add another honor to her long list of accolades.
The Las Cruces girls’ track and field runner has been voted by readers as the 2024-25 Las Cruces Sun-News Female Athlete of the Season. The poll featured 101 female athletes from across the Las Cruces area in nine different sports and ran from May 22 to June 20.
Nearly 250,000 votes were cast in the weeks-long poll, with Davis receiving a majority of the vote at 50.52% at 126,121 total votes. Organ Mountain golf’s Alyssa Serna finished second at 53,546 votes, making up 21.45% of the total, while Centennial basketball’s Rizaya Cash came in third at 14.91% of the total with 37,217 votes.
Organ Mountain track and field and cross country’s Wren Hofacket, Las Cruces volleyball’s Ava Price, Las Cruces soccer’s Raylene Carillo, Centennial softball’s Aaliyah Betancourt, Mesilla Valley Christian softball’s Maren Fiske and Las Cruces softball’s Denae DiMatteo and Kaia Renteria were other athletes who earned more than 1,000 votes in the poll.
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Davis, an Indiana commit, completed a stellar track season by winning three events at the 2025 NMAA 5A state track meet in May in Albuquerque. She won the 200- and 400-meter races at 25.37 and 56.07 seconds, respectively, alongside a first-place finish in the high jump event with a 5-foot, 6-inch jump. Davis also won District 3-5A titles in all three events, plus a district title in the 100-meter dash at 12.2 seconds.
Earlier this year, Davis was voted as the 2024 Sun-News Female Athlete of the Year for her performances during the 2024 track season, which saw her win state titles in four events and break state records in the 200-meter dash and the high jump.
This article originally appeared on Las Cruces Sun-News: Female Athlete of the Season: Las Cruces’ Kaselle Davis
