The Texas High School Coaches Association announced the 2024-2025 THSCA Softball Super Elite Teams on June 16.

Honorees from Class 6A included Montgomery Henderson and Ella Kate Smith, both from Katy High School in Katy.

The award recognizes student-athletes across Texas for their exemplary athletic achievement in the 2024-2025 UIL softball season. All State Elite teams are composed of all of the players scheduled to play in the All-Star Game. Any player picked for the All-Star Game is automatically an All-State player.

To access the complete list of Softball Super Elite Teams, go to https://www.thsca.com/super-elite-teams The THSCA Super Elite Teams consist of high school players nominated by current professional members of the THSCA. Nominations are reviewed and chosen by the THSCA sport-specific advisory committee and Super Elite Team (S.E.T.) Committee. The S.E.T. Committees are comprised of 808 coaches in the 8 THSCA regions throughout Texas. Based on the recommendations from the S.E.T. Committee, the sport-specific THSCA advisory committee will determine the final Super Elite Team selections. An athlete must meet the following criteria to be nominated for a THSCA Super Elite Team: the nominating head coach must be a THSCA professional member and meet nomination deadlines, a student must be of good moral character, on the varsity team, been a member of the team in good standing at the time of nomination and excelled as an elite member in their respective sport. About the Texas High School Coaches Association The Texas High School Coaches Association (THSCA) is Texas high school coaches' principal advocate and leadership organization. The THSCA provides the highest quality representation, education, and services to Texas high school coaches and affiliate members by enhancing the professionalism of coaches and the schools they represent. The mission statement is simply this: To help and serve Texas high school coaches as they work to help and serve student-athletes. "HELPING COACHES HELP KIDS." For more information on THSCA, visit www.thsca.com About Texas High School Coaches Education Foundation The mission of the Texas High School Coaches Education Foundation is to develop funds from a broad range of donors to provide professional education programs that will strengthen, reinforce, and enhance professionalism in high school coaches throughout the state of Texas. These programs provide instructional material and training in character development to coaches in Texas at both the high school and middle school levels and can directly impact the lives of over 1.5 million student-athletes

each year. The two established events are the Texas Coaches Leadership Summit and the R.O.C.K. Mentoring Workshop.