Baton Rouge All-Metro Teams for Div. I&2 and for Div. III&4

[futbol4ever]

Here is the All-Metro Teams for the Baton Rouge Area.

For the first time there will be two teams.

One team is for Divisions I and II and the other for Division III & IV.

Division I AND II

MVP: EDUIN DELCID OF WOODLAWN

CO-COACH OF THE YEAR: ANDREW BARNES OF WOODLAWN

                                      JOSH MCREYNOLDS OF CATHOLIC

THE TEAM:

EDUIN DELCID-Junior-Forward-Woodlawn

BOBBY LEE-Senior-Centerback-Catholic

JOSH JOSEPH-Senior-Goalkeeper-McKinley

BRIGGS BOURGEOIS-Junior-Forward-St. Amant

CAMDEN HILLIARD-Senior-Forward-Denham Springs

EDGAR MOYRON-Junior-Forward-East Ascension

ETIENNE CHENEVERT-Junior-Midfielder-Baton Rouge

HECTOR RODRIGUEZ-Sophomore-Defender-St. Amant

CADE MURRY-Senior-Forward-Denham Springs

BRAYDEN BETZ-Junior-Forward-Live Oak

HAYS GREER-Senior-Midfielder-Dutchtown

BENTON WESLEY-Senior-Centerback-Zachary

MICHAEL JAMES-Senior-Midfielder-Baton Rouge

COLE CAZENAVE-Freshman-Forward-Catholic

ROSS MELTON-Senior-Defensive Mid-Central

Division III AND IV

MVP:  MIGUEL VILAS OF UNIVERSITY

COACH OF THE YEAR:  CHRIS MITCHELL OF UNIVERSITY

THE TEAM:

MIGUEL VILAS-Senior Midfielder-University

TREVOR BISSON-Junior-Midfielder-Episcopal

DILLON HOGLEN-Senior-Forward-Parkview

GRANT FINK-Senior-Midfielder-Runnels

BRETT ROSS-Senior-Midfielder-St. Michael

IAN CARTER-Junior-Defender-Ascension Christian

WILL FOREMAN-Junior-Goalkeeper-Parkview

MAJOR MITTENDORF-Senior-Forward-University

RODNEY JOHNSON-Senior-Defender-Plaquemine

CARLOS ZAMBRANO-Junior-Midfielder-St. Michael

THOMAS DOWNS-Senior-Defender-University

DEAN CAMPBELL-Junior-Goalkeeper-Runnels

LOGAN ST. PIERRE-Freshman-Forward-Ascension Christian

AYSAR SHEIKHA-Senior-Forward-Parkview

MAX SAGER-Sophomore-Midfielder-Runnels

[brsoccerdad50]

I know this team is selected by a group of coaches but it's for The Advocate which hasn't released it yet.

[futbol4ever]

That's correct. The meeting took place March 9th and it was well attended. I am waiting for the All-State Selections to come out to finalize the list and send it to the Baton Rouge and New Orleans papers for publishing.

[brsoccerdad50]

What's the motivation to release the team before The Advocate could publish it? It's their team.

[futbol4ever]

It is not their team.
The Advocate doesn't pick it, the coaches do and therefore belongs to the coaches.
The reason for posting the team here is to get recognition for the boys to help with their selection to the All-State Team.
Coaches in other parts of the State don't really know much about players outside their area.
This helps them a little bit as to who is considered the best in our area.

[brsoccerdad50]

Who do you think you're selecting the team for? The Advocate has annually worked with a committee of coaches, tapping into their expertise of the game and their familiarity of the area and players, to comprise a team(s) of the best players with the understanding they'll release the information at their discretion when space becomes available.

If you look and see another such thread on the board that touts Shreveport's all-area team, it was done so with a link to the newspaper's website, not ahead of the paper's release of the team.

[futbol4ever]

You don't have your facts strait.
The Advocate has no interest in picking the All-Metro Team.
I have been scheduling the meeting of all the area coaches for well over 20 years or, really, since it was first done. The coaches pick the team. Period.
"The Advocate has annually worked with a committee of coaches....". Where do you get this from?
Never happened. Ever. I work closely with Robin Fambrough to get her THE All-Metro team for boys only.
The paper has NEVER published the All-Metro before the All-State so we, I, like to include those players that made the team in the list of accomplishments for that player. And like I said before, it helps them get selected to the All-State team. By the way, the All-State is picked the same way.
I believe 1989 or 1990 was the first team picked and I was there just like I was when we first started high school soccer in Baton Rouge.

Just doing it for the boys. My name doesn't appear in anything.