High School All-Conference/State Selections

After each high school sport ends, coaches from every team come together to vote on what players they think deserves to be All-Conference and All-State. This award is an honor and should not be easy to get. However, as the years have gone on, the selection of kids picked has more to do with what year they are than how well skilled they are. For example, if the voting comes down to the last spot between a freshman and a senior basketball player, guess who will most likely be picked? Yes the senior will be. Now that is fine if she proves to be a better player than the freshman, however, a lot of times, this is not the case. A lot of times a freshman will have better stats, wins, and an overall better record than the senior, but because the senior was selected in the previous years and it is her last year to win this award, the senior is usually chosen. This is not right. It should not matter what grade an athlete is in or if they were chosen in the past. All-State athletes should be the best athletes in the state; there should be no exceptions. Hopefully over the next years of high school sports, we will see some changes being made for the better.