{"id":130618,"date":"2026-01-20T17:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130618\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:48:15","slug":"vote-for-boys-el-paso-childrens-hospital-high-school-male-athlete-for-jan-13-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/130618\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote for boys: El Paso Children’s Hospital high school male athlete for Jan. 13-17"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the 2025-26 high school sports season ongoing, the El Paso Times will give readers a chance to vote to identify El Paso’s top athletes.<\/p>\n

This week, readers voted for which El Paso Times<\/a>‘ El Paso Children’s Hospital high school boy athlete had the best performance in wrestling, swimming and basketball.<\/p>\n

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Here are this week’s nominees:<\/p>\n

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Jayden Escobar, Bowie basketball. Escobar scored in double figures last week, including 27 points vs. Anthony.<\/p>\n

Julian Banda, El Dorado wrestling. He took first in the 132-pound division at the Bowie Tournament.<\/p>\n

Alexander Tapia, Franklin wrestling. Tapia defeated Coronado’s Alejandro Marin to place first at 120 pounds. Tapia is 42-6 this season.<\/p>\n

Dimas Sosa, Franklin wrestling. Sosa won the 144-pound division with 10-8 decision vs. Jacaden Brown of Chapin. Sosa is 30-5 this season.<\/p>\n

Derek Rojo, Hanks Wrestling. Rojo placed first at 126 pounds with a win vs. Coronado’s Jesus Ochoa. Rojo is 30-2 this season.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Pedroza, Parkland wrestling. Pedroza won the 285-pound division with win over El Paso High’s Carlos Carbajal. Pedroza is 34-1 this season.<\/p>\n

Cesar Chavez, Austin swimming. He broke the 50-yard free record in the District 1-4A meet with time of 24.73 seconds.<\/p>\n

Samuel Rodriguez, Irvin swimming. He broke the 500-yard free record in the District 1-4A meet with time of 6:39.04 seconds.<\/p>\n

Felix F. Chavez can be reached at fchavez@elpasotimes.com; @Fchavezeptimes ox X<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Vote: El Paso Children’s Hospital HS male athlete for Jan. 13-17<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the 2025-26 high school sports season ongoing, the El Paso Times will give readers a chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[56132,138,42496,140,139,14883,56133],"class_list":["post-130618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-alexander-tapia","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-children39s-hospital","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-el-paso-times","tag-jayden-escobar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}