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These are the schools that had the most Dallas Morning News all-area award winners for the 2018-19 school year

The Dallas Morning News handed out 327 awards across 10 sports to players and coaches during the 2018-19 school year. Those awards included Players of the Year, all-area first team members and a whole lot more recognition.

Our normal process is to compile these extensive lists of the Dallas-area's best and put all of the athletes in one spot to celebrate a season before moving on to the next. Those awards stopped with the end of baseball season and the end of the 2018-19 school year.

That got us thinking: which school had the most total members out of those 327 awards that were handed out? We did the math and actually found that out. To up the ante, we also created a points system for all the awards to see which Dallas-area schools had the highest aggregate score of all the awards combined. Think of it as an all-area audit of the school year.

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The latest news, analysis, predictions and more for each season.

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Player of the Year: 20 points

Individual awards*: 10 points

All-area first team: 5 points

All-area second team: 3 points

All-area third team: 1 point

*Includes items like Coach , Newcomer, Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year. etc.

Here's what we found.

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The year of Flower Mound

Flower Mound sophomore Kaylee Cox (6) is congratulated by teammates after being named MVP in...
Flower Mound sophomore Kaylee Cox (6) is congratulated by teammates after being named MVP in the Class 6A State Championship volleyball game against Ridge Point at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, Saturday, November 17, 2018. (Brandon Wade/Special Contributor)(Brandon Wade / Special Contributor)

After doing the math for the points system above, no school finished with more than Flower Mound's 94. In fact, the next closest school to Flower Mound was Duncanville with a distant 76 points.

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All in all, the school had one Player of the Year, four individual awards, six first team members, one second team member and one third team member. They were one of just two schools to place at least one award winner in every single category (with the other being Duncanville).

Flower Mound won state championships in both volleyball and boys soccer this season -- and both were the first they'd ever won in their school's history. Kaylee Cox was named The News' volleyball Player of the Year and two members of the Flower Mound boys soccer team won individual awards -- goalkeeper Landon Leach was the Defensive Player of the Year and David Doyle was the Coach of the Year.

The school had a total of 13 members win awards across five different sports.

Here's what the top 10 looked like.

The most awards per school

Southlake Carroll forward Taylor Tufts (4) takes the ball from Austin Lake Travis defender...
Southlake Carroll forward Taylor Tufts (4) takes the ball from Austin Lake Travis defender Bronwyn Bates (4) during the first half of a UIL conference 6A girls state semifinal soccer game between Southlake Carroll High School and Lake Travis High School on Friday, April 19, 2019 at Birkelbach Field in Georgetown, Texas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

The aforementioned Flower Mound and Duncanville each had 13 members win awards in the 2018-19 school year. The only school to top them was Southlake Carroll and its 15 winners spread across six sports. The six sports also happened to be the top mark for any Dallas-area school (Denton Guyer also had six).

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Southlake Carroll had three individual award winners, which included ...

Volleyball: Blocker of the Year, Annabelle Smith

Smith, considered one of the best middle blockers in the nation, had 157 blocks for a 40-10 Southlake Carroll team that reached the Class 6A Region I final before losing in four sets to eventual state champion Flower Mound. Smith was an all-state pick and led Carroll with 544 kills, averaging 3.9 per set. She twice had 27 kills in a match, and three times she recorded seven blocks.

Girls soccer: Offensive Player of the Year, Taylor Tufts

Tufts did it all for the 6A state champions this season, scoring 31 goals and adding 24 assists. If an offensive possession for the Dragons ended up with a goal, you could bet that Tufts had her footprints all over it. That was exemplified in Southlake Carroll's 6-0 regional final win over Richardson Pearce, where Tufts had four assists and a goal of her own. She'll bring her all-around offensive skill set to Oklahoma next season.

Baseball: Coach of the Year, Larry Vucan

Southlake Carroll opened the season 1-6, but ended the season with 18-straight wins, including a 17-0, run-rule win over Fort Bend Ridge Point in the state championship game. The Dragons have now won 30 of their last 31 playoff games. The only loss was a 3-2 defeat to Deer Park in the state semifinals back in 2017.

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Here's what the top 15 looked like.

Our Players of the Year

Duncanville senior Jahmius Ramsey poses for a photograph in The Dallas Morning News studio...
Duncanville senior Jahmius Ramsey poses for a photograph in The Dallas Morning News studio on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. (Rose Baca/Staff Photographer)(Rose Baca / Staff Photographer)
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The News'had 11 Players of the Year across 10 sports (there was an Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year in football). Of those 11 awards, nine different schools were represented. Highland Park and Bishop Dunne led the way with two a piece.

You can read -- and watch YouTube videos -- about all 11 below. We'll list them in the order of when their seasons finished during the 2018-19 year.

Volleyball: Flower Mound's Kaylee Cox

Football (defense): Bishop Dunne's Brian Williams

Football (offense): Highland Park's Chandler Morris

Girls basketball: Bishop Lynch's Endyia Rogers

Boys basketball: Duncanville's Jahmius Ramsey

Girls soccer: Highland Park's Presley Echols

Boys soccer: Arlington Sam Houston's Jose Ortiz

Girls track and field: Mansfield Lake Ridge's Jasmine Moore

Boys track and field: Bishop Dunne's Cam Miller

Softball: The Colony's Jayda Coleman

Baseball: Colleyville Heritage's Bobby Witt Jr.

Individual awards

Twenty-four different schools had at least one athlete or coach win an individual award. They ranged anywhere from 6A to private schools. You can see a full breakdown of those 24 winners below.

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Flower Mound

Boys soccer Defensive Player of the Year: Landon Leach

Boys soccer Coach of the Year: David Doyle

Volleyball Coach of the Year: Jamie Siegel

Girls track and field Newcomer of the Year: Natalie Cook

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Mansfield Legacy

Girls soccer Coach of the Year: Zachary Hallak

Baseball Offensive Player of the Year: Nate Rombach

Baseball Newcomer of the Year: Kayden Voelkel

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Southlake Carroll

Girls soccer Offensive Player of the Year: Taylor Tufts

Volleyball Blocker of the Year: Annabelle Smith

Baseball Coach of the Year: Larry Vucan

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Argyle

Girls basketball Coach of the Year: Chance Westmoreland

Baseball Pitcher of the Year: Chad Ricker

DeSoto

Girls basketball Newcomer of the Year: Sa'Myah Smith

Girls track and field Coach of the Year: June Villers

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Duncanville

Football Coach of the Year: Reginald Samples

Football Newcomer of the Year: Trysten Smith

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Anna

Softball Coach of the Year: Lindsey Gage

Arlington Lamar

Boys soccer Offensive Player of the Year: Jasub Flores

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Carrollton Ranchview

Girls soccer Newcomer of the Year: Alexis Neal

Coppell

Girls soccer Defensive Player of the Year: Lauren Kellett

Denton Ryan

Utility Football Player of the Year: Drew Sanders

Forney

Softball Offensive Player of the Year: Trinity Cannon

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Grand Prairie

Boys soccer Newcomer of the Year: Eduardo Rodriguez

Keller

Softball Pitcher of the Year: Dylann Kaderka

Life Oak Cliff

Boys track and field Coach of the Year: Marquis Stimpson

Lovejoy

Volleyball Newcomer of the Year: Averi Carlson

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Mansfield

Volleyball Utility Player of the Year: Molly Phillips

Mansfield Summit

Boys track and field Newcomer of the Year: Sean Smith

Mansfield Timberview

Boys basketball Coach of the Year: Duane Gregory

Oak Cliff Faith Family

Boys basketball Newcomer of the Year: Trae Clayton

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Plano West 

Volleyball Defensive Player of the Year: Haley Hoang

Prosper

Volleyball Setter of the Year: Madi Whitmire

The Colony

Softball Newcomer of the Year: Olivia Wick

Waxahachie

Volleyball Hitter of the Year: Audrey Nalls

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First team members

Desoto's Jayla Hollis (1293) greets teammate Jalysi'ya Smith (1299) at the finish of the...
Desoto's Jayla Hollis (1293) greets teammate Jalysi'ya Smith (1299) at the finish of the girls 6A 100-meter hurdles with a 13.40 clocking at the UIL state track meet in Austin on May 11, 2019. THe girls were .02 seconds apart to take first and second. (Bob Daemmrich/Special Contributor)(Bob Daemmrich / Special Contributor)

Track and field is where DeSoto made its mark in the first team category. All seven of their first team members were either from the girls track and field team (which had six members) or the boys track and field team.

Those represented from DeSoto included (girls team unless otherwise noted) ...

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-- The 4x100, 4x200 and 4x300 units

4x100: Ja'Era Griffin, Jayla Hollis, Taylor Armstrong, Rosaline Effiong 

4x200: Ja'Era Griffin, Trinity Kirk, Taylor Armstrong, Mia Abraham 

4x400: Cierra Wash, Rosaline Effiong, Zariah Jones, Bryannia Murphy

-- First-team sprinters in Rosaline Effiong and Ja'Era Griffin

-- Hurdlers Taylor Armstrong, Jayla Hollis and Jalaysi'ya Smith

-- The 4x400 boys relay team

Members: Kevin Modesto, Kennedy Harrison, Isaac Hastings, Chris Ford

In fact, there were 16 award winners (athletes and teams) in girls track. DeSoto comprised of six of those. Just look at what they accomplished (via The News' Greg Riddle):

In the 4x100 relay, DeSoto twice beat the high school national record of 44.50 by Long Beach (Calif.) Poly that had stood since 2004. DeSoto won regionals in 44.44, then topped that by winning the Class 6A state championship with a national-record time of 44.24. At state, DeSoto beat teams that are No. 3 (Humble Summer Creek), No. 5 (Duncanville) and No. 6 (Houston Eisenhower) in the nation in the 4x100. ... DeSoto's 4x200 relay team that included three sophomores (Griffin, Kirk and Abraham) won the state title in 1:36.18. That was the second-best time in the nation this season, behind DeSoto's time of 1:36.09 from regionals. ... DeSoto's 4x400 relay won state in 3:39.79, the best time in the nation.

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They also dominated the state track meet en route to their fourth straight Class 6A team championship, which Riddle covered in great detail here.

Here's how the top 10 looked in terms of schools and total first team members.

Want to see every single award?

A total of 98 Dallas-area schools were represented in our all-area awards for the 2018-19 school year. You can view a full breakdown of our points system, team members and more by clicking this link. There are tabs at the bottom that show our data sorted by different options.

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To view individual stories, check out the links below. We'll list the awards in order of by how the seasons finished.

Volleyball

Player of the YearKaylee Cox

All-area teams and playersSee full lists here

All-district lists: See full teams here!

Football

Defensive PoYBishop Dunne S Brian Williams

Offensive PoYHighland Park QB Chandler Morris

More awardsCoach, Utility Player and Newcomer of the Year

All-area football teamsSee full first- and second-teams

All-district football teamsSee MVPs and more here

Girls basketball

Player of the YearBishop Lynch's Endyia Rogers 

More awardsCoach and Newcomer of the Year

All-area teamsSee first, second and third teams

All-district teamsMVPs, other award winners

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Boys basketball

Player of the YearDuncanville guard Jahmius Ramsey

More awardsCoach and Newcomer of the Year

All-area teamsSee first, second and third teams

All-district teamsMVPs, other award winners

Girls soccer

Player of the Year: Highland Park's Presley Echols

More awardsOffensive, Defensive, Newcomer and Coach of the Year

All-area teamsSee first, second units

All-districtSee full winners here

Boys soccer

Player of the Year: Arlington Sam Houston's Jose Ortiz

More awardsOffensive, Defensive, Newcomer and Coach of the Year

All-area teamsSee first, second units

All-districtSee full winners here

Girls track and field

Athlete of the Year: Lake Ridge's Jasmine Moore

More awardsNewcomer and Coach of the Year

All-area teamsDallas-area relay units, sprinters and more top athletes

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Boys track and field

Athlete of the YearBishop Dunne's Cam Miller

More awardsNewcomer and Coach of the Year

All-areaDallas-area relay units, field events and more top athletes

Softball

Player of the YearThe Colony's Jayda Coleman

More awardsOffensive, Pitcher, Newcomer and Coach of the Year

All-area teamsSee first, second and third units

All-districtCheck out the full lists

Baseball

Player of the YearColleyville Heritage's Bobby Witt Jr.

More awardsOffensive, Pitcher, Newcomer and Coach of the Year

All-area teamsSee first, second and third units

All-districtCheck out the full lists