Underclass All-American

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Underclass All-American is an honorific for high school and college athletes for excellence in competition. The athletes recognized with this title are considered the best players of a specific season in their sport that are members of a given class other than the senior class. These athletes are considered All-Americans for their class and are termed Junior All-Americans, Sophomore All-Americans and Freshman All-Americans or All-Freshman, All-Sophomore and All-Junior honorees.

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High school basketball

Annually, ESPN HS (formerly ESPN RISE) selected 30 juniors, 20 sophomores, and 10 freshmen as boys' high school basketball Underclass All-Americans. [1] MaxPreps.com also chooses annual underclass All-American teams. [2] [3] These teams were called the Junior All-American Team, the Sophomore All-American Team and the Freshman All-American Team.

High school football

ESPN HS chooses 25 non-senior high school football players as its Underclass All-Americans. [4] MaxPreps selects an Underclass All-American team for juniors, sophomores, and freshmen, naming a national player of the year for each grade. [5]

College basketball

National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball Freshman All-American teams are chosen annually by rotating selectors. For the 2011–12 NCAA Division I season, Sporting News chose a Freshman All-American team. [6] For the 2010–11 season, Collegeinsider.com chose a Freshman All-American team. [7]

College football

College Football News (CFN) chooses annual NCAA Division I men's college football Freshman All-American teams that it calls All-Freshman teams. [8] [9] In some years, CFN has chosen NCAA Division I men's college football Sophomore All-American teams. [10] [11] ESPN, 247Sports, Pro Football Focus, FWAA, Maxwell Football Club, On3 and The Athletic also publish Freshman All-American selections.

College baseball

Collegiate Baseball presents the annual NCAA Division I men's college baseball Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American team. [12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pierre, Guerda (June 17, 2010). "2009-10 ESPN RISE Underclass All-Americans". AAU News . Archived from the original on March 22, 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ Hickman, Jason (April 16, 2012). "Boys Basketball Junior All-American Team: Honors continue to roll in for National Junior of the Year Jabari Parker". MaxPreps.com. Retrieved April 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ Hickman, Jason (April 21, 2011). "Boys Basketball Sophomore All-American Team: Baltimore sensation repeats as 2013 POY". MaxPreps.com . Retrieved April 22, 2012.
  4. ↑ "ESPNHS Underclass All-Americans". ESPN HS . February 3, 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2012.
  5. ↑ "MaxPreps All-American Teams". MaxPreps . January 3, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Sporting News 2012 All-American college basketball teams". Sporting News . March 5, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  7. ↑ "The 2011 Freshmen All-America team". Collegeinsider.com. March 25, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Taylor Lewan Bio". University of Michigan. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
  9. ↑ Cirminiello, Richard (December 9, 2011). "2011 CFN All-Freshman Defensive Team". College Football News . Scout.com. Archived from the original on January 7, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  10. ↑ Cirminiello, Richard (December 15, 2010). "2010 All-Sophomore Team". College Football News . Scout.com . Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  11. ↑ "2009 CFN All-Sophomore Team". College Football News . Scout.com. December 14, 2009. Retrieved April 24, 2012.
  12. ↑ "All Americans: Collegiate Baseball Newspaper". Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Inc. Retrieved May 20, 2010.

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