Here are the 2025 Lexington All-City softball teams and player of the year
The Lexington Herald-Leader and Kentucky.com present the 2025 All-City Softball Teams and player of the year as voted on by the eight high school coaches of Lexington’s varsity KHSAA programs.
This year, Bryan Station’s Karsyn Rockvoan edged out Lexington Catholic’s Abby Hammond atop the list of All-City First Team selections for Lexington player of the year based on overall point totals from the weighted votes of the city’s eight varsity coaches despite Hammond earning four top player votes to Rockvoan’s three.
Lafayette’s Rylan Music took the other top nod. Per tradition, coaches were not permitted to vote for their own players. Rockvoan and Hammond shared player of the year honors last year.
This year, Rockvoan, a junior, ranked seventh in the state with 282 strikeouts while compiling a 10-4 record and 0.96 ERA for the Defenders. Rockvoan topped 1,000 strikeouts for her career on May 9 of this season. She also stepped up her offensive game with a .306 average and team-high 22 hits and seven home runs.
Hammond, a senior Kentucky commit, led Lexington Catholic to its third 43rd District title in five years. and second in a row. She finishes her high school career as a two-time Kentucky Gatorade player of the year, honors she earned in 2022 and 2024.
Joining Rockvoan, Hammond and Music on the first team were Frederick Douglass’ Haley McGuire and Armani Happy, Lafayette’s Anna Clay Denton and Addi Combs, Bryan Station’s Tiahna Bowman, Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Tatum Golden and Henry Clay’s Ella Smith.
Lexington’s eight varsity softball coaches were asked to nominate players for All-City consideration. Later, the coaches ranked, one through 10, their top players from that list of nominees.
Selections were made regardless of position and each team was limited to a maximum of five All-City honorees. Point values were assigned to each voting position (10 points for first-place votes, nine points for second-place votes, etc.) and the accumulation of those points was used to create the First and Second Teams.
ALL-CITY FIRST TEAM
Player, position(s), class, school, voting points (first-place votes)
Karsyn Rockvoan, P, Jr., Bryan Station, 66 (3)
Abby Hammond, P, Sr., Lexington Catholic, 61 (4)
Rylan Music, P/1B, Sr., Lafayette, 42 (1)
Haley McGuire, Utility, So., Frederick Douglass, 36
Anna Clay Denton, SS, Jr., Lafayette, 32
Tiahna Bowman, SS, Sr., Bryan Station, 26
Armani Happy, OF, Sr., Frederick Douglass, 19
Tatum Golden, SS, Sr., Paul Laurence Dunbar, 18
Addi Combs, Utility, So., Lafayette, 17
Ella Smith, P/ IN, Jr., Henry Clay, 13
ALL-CITY SECOND TEAM
Alexis Bazzell, 2B, So., Tates Creek
Abby Watts-Claunch, Utility, So., Henry Clay
Mack Waits, Utility, Jr., Lexington Christian
Kavery Myrick, 3B, Fr., Frederick Douglass
Aniyah Ferris, 2B, 8th, Bryan Station
Haylee Lefever, C, Jr., Frederick Douglass
Jarynn Bowman, 2B, So., Frederick Douglass
Piper Graham, Utility, Jr., Lexington Christian
Skylar Davis, C, So., Lafayette
Brynna Harris, OF, Jr., Lafayette
HONORABLE MENTION
Bryan Station: Adrienn Acure, 3B, So.; Brooke Weathers, 1B, Sr.
Henry Clay: Jayne Skaggs, P/INF, Fr.; Elise Pearson, Utility, Fr.; Kathryn Skaggs, OF, Fr.
Lexington Catholic: Sydney Ford, CF, Sr.; Aevea Mosley-Franklin, C, 8th; Kayla Mattingly, LF, Sr.; Lilly Hawthorne, 1B, 7th.
Lexington Christian: Anna Gorshak, C, Sr.; Madison Wertzler, Utility, Fr.; Sophia Gorshak, OF, Fr.
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Samantha Dixon, CF, So.; Cortney Diersen, 3B, Jr.; Ellie Brajuha, C, 7th; Lily Sawyers, 2B, 8th.
Tates Creek: Alexis Sempsrott, P, Fr.; Kylie Howell, 3B, So.; Hannah Jones, SS, Fr.; Kacey Cline, 1B, Sr.
This story was originally published June 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM.
