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.

High School basketball

Annually, ESPN HS (formerly ESPN RISE) selects 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 are 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]

College baseball

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

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