The Washington Post selects the Washington area's top high school athletes in four sports:
• Boys' Soccer
• Girls' Soccer
• Football
• Field Hockey
• Boys' Cross-Country
• Girls' Cross-Country

About This Section
Coaches at more than 250 schools in the Washington area were invited to nominate top athletes from their sports. Selections were made by Washington Post scholastic sports staff members Colin Fitzgibbons (boys' soccer), Sean P. Flynn (girls' soccer), Kynan W. Kelly (cross-country) and Ashton Williams (field hockey). The scholastic sports staff members selecting the All-Met football team were Darryl J. Caine, Heather A. Dinich, Tarik El-Bashir, Judith Evans, Colin Fitzgibbons, Sean P. Flynn, Jon Gallo, Alan Goldenbach, Todd Jacobson, Josh Leventhal, Steve Lewis, Jake Schaller, Dan Steinberg, Andrew van Esselstyn, Angela Watts and Preston Williams.

The illustration at left is by The Washington Post's Doug Stevens. All of the photos in this section are by The Post's Jonathan Newton and were taken at MCI Center in Washington. Special thanks goes to Matt Williams, senior vice president of communications for Washington Sports and Entertainment.