{"id":315488,"date":"2023-07-12T03:35:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=315488"},"modified":"2023-07-12T03:59:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:59:36","slug":"max-clark-ava-brown-win-gatorade-best-player-of-the-year-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=315488","title":{"rendered":"Max Clark, Ava Brown win Gatorade Best Player of the Year honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a pretty good week for Max Clark. In addition to being picked No. 3 overall<\/a> in the 2023 MLB draft by the Detroit Tigers, he’s been named the Gatorade Best Male Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

He’s coming off a remarkable 2022-23 season, hitting .646 with six home runs, 33 RBI and scoring 45 runs. And his glove work was equally strong, committing only two errors all year.<\/p>\n

Off the field, Clark’s effort in the classroom (3.97 GPA) and in his community highlight the type of positive strides that have become synonymous with Gatorade nominees.<\/p>\n

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On the other side, Lake Creek (Texas) softball star and Florida commit Ava Brown<\/a> won the Gatorade Best Female Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

Brown went 27-0 as a starting pitcher and posted a 0.53 ERA in 2023, closing out her career with an 81-0 record and 830 strikeouts. And she was just as impressive with a bat in her hand, hitting .462 with nine home runs, 17 doubles, 65 RBI and a .888 slugging percentage.<\/p>\n

She is the second softball athlete to take home the honor in the award\u2019s 20-year history, and like Clark, her resume off the diamond\u2014from a 3.55 GPA to volunteering with the local chapter of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes\u2014weighed heavily on the honor.<\/p>\n

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Both Clark and Brown beat out hundreds of thousands of other high school players to win the Baseball and Softball Gatorade awards, and they also had to contend with the other Gatorade Player of the Year winners from different sports nationwide. That list included:<\/p>\n