The 2023-2024 Gatorade Softball State Players of the Year – for every state plus the District of Columbia – were announced on Friday.

The Gatorade Softball National Player of the Year will be chosen from the state winners and announced soon.

Last year in softball Ava Brown from Lake Creek (Texas) High was the Gatorade National Player of the Year. Click HERE to read the announcement naming Brown who was a Texas Gatorade State Player of the Year twice and just finished her freshman year at the University of Florida.

Below are the winners for this year… scroll down to see the previous winners for the past FIVE years before 2023-2024.

• Click HERE to see the Gatorade 2021-2022 State Softball Players of the Year
• Click HERE to see the Gatorade 2020-2021 State Softball Players of the Year
• Click HERE to see the Gatorade 2019-2020 State Softball Players of the Year
• Click HERE to see the Gatorade 2018-2019 State Softball Players of the Year
• Click HERE to see the Gatorade 2017-2018 State Softball Players of the Year

The award recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field.

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Each state finalist is a candidate for the prestigious Gatorade National Softball Player of the Year award.

The 2023-2024 Gatorade Softball State Players of the Year

Click on “State” links to access each state’s press release

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction 12 sports at the high school level:

• football
• girls volleyball
• boys and girls’ cross country
• boys and girls’ basketball
• boys and girls’ soccer
• baseball
• softball
• boys and girls’ track & field

The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which uses experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport.

Since the program’s inception in 1985, Gatorade Player of the Year award recipients have won hundreds of professional and college championships, and many have also turned into pillars in their communities, becoming coaches, business owners and educators.

To learn more about the Gatorade Player of the Year program, check out past winners or to nominate student-athletes, visit the Gatorade Softball State Player of the Year website; Facebook at www.facebook.com/GatoradePOY or follow on Twitter at www.twitter.com/Gatorade.