USA Today All-USA high school baseball team

Each year, "USA Today", an American newspaper, awards outstanding High School baseball players with a place on its All-USA high school baseball team. The newspaper names athletes whom they believe to be the best baseball players from high schools across the United States. The newspaper has named a team every year since 1998. Prior to 1998, from 1989 to 1997 "USA Today" named one Player of the Year, and one Coach of the Year. Since 1998, the paper has named a team of nine to 11 players with one member of the team named the USA TODAY High School Baseball Player of the Year.

Notes:
*The first list of names are players who were awarded the USA Today High School Baseball Player of the Year award from 1989 to 1997, followed by the coaches who won the award in the corresponing year.
*The first player in each list, displayed in bold, is the Player of the Year from that season.
*The 2004-2007 teams were selected by USA Today's Christopher Lawlor after consultation with analysts, pro scouts, coaches and writers.

USA Today Players and Coaches of the Year 1989-1997

1999 team

Coach of the Year: Rocky Manuel (Bellaire High School, Houston, TX)

2002 team

Coach of the Year: Rick Carpenter (Elkins High School, Missouri City, TX)

2005 team

2008 team

Coach of the Year: Todd Fitz-Gerald (American Heritage High School, Plantation, FL)

External links

* [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/preps/rankingsindex.htm USA Today Index Page]