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Do not fill this in! ==Award programs== * [[USA Today Minor League Player of the Year Award|''USA Today'' Minor League Player of the Year Award]] β First presented in 1988, this annual award has been given to a [[Minor league baseball]] player judged to have had the most outstanding season by a thirteen-person panel of baseball experts.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.mlb.com/press-release/alex-bregman-named-usa-today-minor-league-player-of-the-year-199850640 | title=Alex Bregman Named USA Today Minor League Player of the Year | work=[[Major League Baseball]] | date=September 6, 2016}}</ref> * [[USA Today All-USA High School Baseball Team|''USA Today'' All-USA High School Baseball Team]] β First presented in 1998, the award honors between nine and eleven outstanding high school baseball players from around the United States with selection to the team (separate awards honoring the High School Baseball Player of the Year and High School Baseball Coach of the Year have been given since 1989<ref>{{cite news | title=Baseball: Players and Coaches of the Year (1989β1998) | url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/preps/records/sbhs.htm | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] | date=March 8, 1999}}</ref><ref name="usatoday7">{{cite news |title=Super 25 and All-USA archive | url=https://usatodayhss.com/ | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]]}}</ref>). * [[USA Today All-USA High School Basketball Team|''USA Today'' All-USA High School Basketball Team]] β First presented in 1983, the award honors outstanding male and female basketball players from high schools around the United States with selection to the team, with one member of each team being named High School Basketball Player of the Year as well as coaches from a select boys' and girls' team as High School Basketball Coach of the Year.<ref name="usatoday7"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Basketball: Boys' players and coaches of year (1982β2006) | url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/preps/basketball/boys-honors.htm | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] | date=June 20, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Basketball: Girls' players and coaches of year (1982β2006) | url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/preps/basketball/girls-honors.htm | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] | date=January 17, 2007}}</ref> * ''USA Today'' All-Joe Team (NFL) β First presented in 1992 in tribute to [[Kansas City Chiefs]] veteran defensive lineman [[Joe Phillips (American football)|Joe Phillips]], the award honors 52 players across the NFL for exemplary performance during their rookie season.<ref>{{cite news | title=All-Joe Team: The unheralded prime performers from NFL '10 | url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/2011-01-25-all-joe-team_N.htm | first=Nate | last=Davis | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] | date=January 26, 2011}}</ref> * ''USA Today''/National Prep Poll [[High School Football National Championship]] β Predating the first publication of ''USA Today'' under the sole decision of the National Prep Poll, it is a national championship honor awarded to the best [[high school football]] team(s) in the United States, based on rankings by the newspaper's sports editorial department. * [[USA Today All-USA High School Football Team|''USA Today'' All-USA High School Football Team]] β First presented in 1982, the award honors outstanding football players from high schools around the United States (includes ranking the Super 25 teams in the U.S. the Top 10 teams in the East, South, Midwest and West, and [[USA Today High School Football Player of the Year]]).<ref>{{cite news | title=USA Today All-USA teams 1982β2001 | url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/preps/football/2001-12-26-allusa-team20.htm | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] | date=December 25, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Recent All-USA teams | url=https://usatodayhss.com/ | newspaper=USA Today | publisher=[[Gannett]] Company}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=June 26, 2006|title=Football: Players and Coaches of the Year (1982β2005)|newspaper=USA Today|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/preps/football/year-by-year-honors.htm#coaches}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Super 25 and All-USA archive|newspaper=USA Today|url=https://usatodayhss.com/}}</ref> * [[USA Today High School Football Coach of the Year|''USA Today'' High School Football Coach of the Year]] β First presented in 1982, awarded to a coach of one of the teams selected for the All-USA football team. * ''USA Today'' Road Warrior of the Year only presented once, to Joyce Gioia in 2013. 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