Vote for This Week’s Top Roswell and Goddard High School Athletes

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Andruw Fuentez (2) takes a shot downfield in a game against Rio Rancho on Sept. 4 at the Wool Bowl. Shawn Naranjo | Roswell Tribune

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By Marshall Mecham
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The Roswell Tribune is letting you choose the best high school athlete from Roswell and Goddard this week. To vote, go to https://el-rito.contests.newspaperevents.com/event/f882170ec1066a95.

Here are this week’s nominees:

Andruw Fuentez, Roswell football quarterback

Fuentez completed 71.2% of his passes for 1,363 yards and 19 touchdowns with two interceptions through six games.

Jose Porras, Goddard football wide receiver

Porras scored eight total touchdowns and recorded 622 total yards through the Rockets’ first six games.

Emily Macias, Roswell girls’ soccer forward

Macias scored a team-high 10 goals through 15 games.

Payton Abalos, Goddard volleyball outside hitter

Abalos leads the team with 208 total kills through 14 games.

Marshall Mecham
Marshall Mecham
I am a sports reporter for the Roswell Tribune and serve with the New Mexico Local News Fellowship, which places emerging journalists in newsrooms across the state. My role is to cover all athletic programs at Goddard and Roswell high schools. The primary types of stories I write are season and game previews, season and game reviews, and feature stories. Prior to the Roswell Tribune, I interned for the Artesia Daily Press as a reporter from June to August 2025, and I am glad to be back working with El Rito Media. I am a 2026 graduate of New Mexico State University, where I obtained my bachelor's degree in journalism, with minors in strategic communications and social media management.

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