The Season C all-state boys soccer teams are presented by CHSAANow.com, ColoradoPreps.com and MaxPreps.

These team were created following a lengthy process which included nominations from leagues, and then a vote of coaches.

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Class 5A

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Player of the year: Sebastien Mazur, Fairview

Coach of the year: Eric Schuler, Fairview

Honorable mention:

• Alam Bushara, Eaglecrest, Senior
• Eric Cerna, FORW, Rangeview, Senior
• Tyler Egan, D, Valor Christian, Senior
• Andy Galvan, Adams City, Senior
• Cameron Gerber, MF, Boulder, Sophomore
• Jackson Isaacs, FORW/STRK, Pine Creek, Senior
• Domyniko Jordan, FORW, Rampart, Senior
• Komil Khatamov, STRK/FORW/MF, Overland, Senior
• Darwin Leiva, MF, Aurora Central, Junior
• Mason Louth, MF, Valor Christian, Junior
• Jake Milanski, Fairview, Junior
• Aiden Mott, Mountain Vista, Junior
• Nash Mullen, Legend, Senior
• Joe Murtagh, D/MF/FORW, Skyline, Senior
• Milas Norwood, MF, Liberty, Junior
• Karl Pankratz, D, Arvada West, Senior
• Collin Pearson, GK, Lakewood, Senior
• David Pousma, D, Rock Canyon, Senior
• Shandelle Quintanilla, Hinkley, Senior
• Kevin Ramirez, MF, Horizon, Senior
• John Rosa, D, Silver Creek, Senior
• Dante Russo-Delee, FORW/MF, Poudre, Senior
• Tanner Scarth, D, Regis Jesuit, Senior
• Evans Sims, GK, Boulder, Junior
• Landon Sutterby, Cherokee Trail, Junior
• Jake Swan, Rocky Mountain, Senior
• Peyton Voelker, Fossil Ridge, Senior
• Carter Watson, GK, Monarch, Senior

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Class 4A

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Player of the year: John Burnett, Windsor

Coach of the year: Philip Weiser, Windsor

Honorable mention:

• Alejandro Arellano, MF/HB, Centaurus, Sophomore
• Jonathan Baylon, D’Evelyn, Senior
• Evan Berg, Golden, Senior
• Quincy Cooling, STRK/MF, Montrose, Sophomore
• Cole Dempsey, D, Mullen, Senior
• Joseph Fernandez, D, Battle Mountain, Junior
• Ismael Flores, STRK, Coronado, Junior
• Brody Foote, D, Mead, Sophomore
• Cully Freeman, D/MF, Evergreen, Senior
• Justin Garces, MF/FORW, Glenwood Springs, Senior
• Max Garfield, Northfield, Junior
• Javi Gonzalez, GK, Regis Groff, Senior
• Jack Hanson, FORW, Cheyenne Mountain, Senior
• Carter Kruse, D, Niwot, Senior
• Patrick Maxwell, GK, Severance, Sophomore
• Wade McWhorter, Thompson Valley, Junior
• Matthew Mondragon, FORW, Regis Groff, Senior
• Angel Navarro, MF, Mesa Ridge, Senior
• Blake Nemeth, D, Erie, Senior
• Isaac Perez, MF, Greeley West, Senior
• Alexis Ricalday, Fort Morgan, Senior
• Kai Rubin, STRK/MF, Loveland, Junior
• Emmanuel Sanchez, Harrison, Freshman
• Jace Sandler, FORW, Wheat Ridge, Senior
• Collin Sheehan, D, Pueblo West, Junior
• Brandon Shull, GK, Golden, Senior
• Kyle Smith, Canon City, Senior
• Anderso Sugia, MF/FORW/D, Palmer, Sophomore
• Connor Taylor, GK, Longmont, Senior
• Tucker Terlizzi, Palmer Ridge, Senior
• Nate Van Keulen, FORW, Air Academy, Senior
• Devon Whiting, The Classical Academy, Senior
• Alejandro Zarate, STRK, Northridge, Senior

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Class 3A

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Player of the year: Nick Maffei, Colorado Academy

Coach of the year: Gabe Bernstein, Colorado Academy

Honorable mention:

• Quinn Conger, D, St. Mary’s, Senior
• Axel Espinoza, MF/FORW, KIPP Denver Collegiate, Senior
• Oscar Estrada, DSST: Conservatory Green, Freshman
• Max Ferguson, D, Salida, Senior
• Jesus Fernandez, SWEP, Lamar, Senior
• Gustavo Galaviz, FORW/MF, Middle Park, Senior
• Jared Garcia, Strive Prep – Smart Academy, Senior
• Jair Hernandez, James Irwin, Senior
• Justin Kleen, FORW, Liberty Common, Senior
• Sebastian Kohlhofer, Vail Mountain, Junior
• Sean Lowe, MF, Manitou Springs, Junior
• Andy Lupercio, FB/MF/STRK, Arrupe Jesuit, Senior
• Ian MacKay, Colorado Springs Christian, Senior
• Sean Maulhardt, MF/HB, Delta, Senior
• Izaak Menindez, /D, Eagle Ridge Academy, Junior
• Aidan O’Donnell, Pagosa Springs, Senior
• Connor Phillips, D/MF, Frontier Academy, Junior
• Josefat Rodriguez Duran, STRK/MF, Manual, Freshman
• Alejandro Salas, Atlas Preparatory School, Senior
• Joshua Salehi, MF, Liberty Common, Junior
• Sofonias Semie, STRK/FORW, DSST: Green Valley Ranch, Junior
• Omar Sierra, STRK/SWEP, KIPP Denver Collegiate, Senior
• Julio Sixtos, FORW, Fort Lupton, Senior
• Hayden Tallmadge, D, Montezuma-Cortez, Senior
• Garret Thom, Lutheran, Senior
• Isaiah Thomas, FORW/FB, Manitou Springs, Senior

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Class 2A

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Player of the year: Gabi Marmolejo, Crested Butte

Coach of the year: Than Acuff, Crested Butte

Honorable mention:

• Jaxon Borchardt, Rocky Mountain Lutheran, Senior
• Luciano Camerena, MF/FORW, The Vanguard School, Sophomore
• Gio Garcia, MF, Ellicott, Junior
• Grayson Gresham, D, Colorado Springs School, Junior
• Adani Hassan, Lotus School For Excellence, Junior
• Noah Martin, Front Range Christian, Sophomore
• Hall Matthews, D, Heritage Christian, Junior
• Samuel Ross, Evangelical Christian, Sophomore
• William Shade, Rocky Mountain Lutheran, Junior
• Gabe Skur, MF/FORW, The Vanguard School, Senior
• Hugh Sperber, D/FORW, Fountain Valley, Sophomore
• Jayden Taylor, MF, Heritage Christian, Sophomore

These rankings are the result of the final coaches poll of the regular season. In the voting, Fairview, Battle Mountain, Colorado Academy and Crested Butte were voted No. 1 in their respective classifications.

The rankings, voted upon by coaches and select media members, are the official polls of the Association. Polls are released each Monday during the regular season.

Complete rankings for each class are below.

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CHSAANow.com Boys Soccer Polls

Voted upon by coaches and select media members around the state. New voters can sign up by emailing bcochi@chsaa.org. These rankings are a part of the postseason seeding process.

Windsor took over the Class 4A top spot in this week’s rankings.

The rankings, voted upon by coaches and select media members, are the official polls of the Association. Polls are released each Monday during the regular season.

Complete rankings for each class are below.

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CHSAANow.com Boys Soccer Polls

Voted upon by coaches and select media members around the state. New voters can sign up by emailing bcochi@chsaa.org. These rankings have no bearing on postseason seeding.

Three new teams – Regis Jesuit, Skyview and Crested Butte – jumped up to No. 1 in their respective classifications.

The rankings, voted upon by coaches and select media members, are the official polls of the Association. Polls are released each Monday during the regular season.

Complete rankings for each class are below.

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CHSAANow.com Boys Soccer Polls

Voted upon by coaches around the state. These rankings are part of the postseason seeding process.

Boulder has taken over atop the Class 5A boys soccer coaches poll.

The rankings, voted upon by coaches and select media members, are the official polls of the Association. Polls are released each Monday during the regular season.

Complete rankings for each class are below.

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CHSAANow.com Boys Soccer Polls

Voted upon by coaches around the state. These rankings are part of the postseason seeding process.

(Marlee Smith/CHSAANow.com)

AURORA — This season’s state tournament brackets for boys soccer were released on Sunday, and Jefferson Academy, Air Academy and Denver East head their respective fields.

The state fields were captured via a combination of automatic qualifiers from leagues as well as the final RPI standings of the regular season.

Find each bracket here:

• Class 5A
• Class 4A
• Class 3A

Jefferson Academy (14-0-1) is the No. 1 seed in Class 3A. The Jaguars will host Beth Eden Baptist in the first round.

Other top 3A seeds include Kent Denver, the reigning champion, as well as Colorado Academy, Colorado Springs Christian, Denver Science & Tech Stapleton, Ridgway, The Academy and Liberty Common.

3A’s tournament begins with the first round on Thursday. The second round is Oct. 31.

(Dan Mohrmann/CHSAANow.com)

In 4A, Air Academy (15-0-0) is the No. 1 seed. The Kadets begin with Thompson Valley in the first round.

Among high seeds in 4A are Kennedy, Niwot, Montrose, defending champ The Classical Academy, Denver North, Centaurus and Skyline.

The 4A tournament kicks off on Wednesday. It also plays second-round games on Oct. 31.

Denver East (14-1-0) is the top seed in 5A, and opens its postseason against Arvada West.

Also grabbing high seeds in 5A are Far Northeast, Fort Collins, defending champion Boulder, Grandview, Hinkley, Broomfield and Grand Junction.

5A’s state tournament also begins with the first round on Thursday. It has second round games on Nov. 1.

All quarterfinal matches are Nov. 4, and semifinals are Nov. 8 at neutral sites. The state championship games will be Nov. 11 at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.

Might the state basketball tournaments in Class 5A and 4A expand? (Ray Chen/ArrayPhoto.com)

AURORA — The basketball committee is exploring an idea which would expand the Class 4A and 5A boys and girls state tournaments to include all teams.

The committee began to discuss postseason formats because of last month’s changes to the classification structure which will even out teams in each class. They talked about keeping things as they are, but also about ways to change the format.

And during Wednesday’s meeting, at least for 5A and 4A, the idea of a totally-inclusive state tournament was popular among committee members. The format would be loosely modeled on what 1A and 2A have already implemented via regionals, but would incorporate all schools in the classification.

“We had a great discussion on the postseason format,” said CHSAA assistant commissioner Bert Borgmann, who administers basketball. “We have a very good 5A format — and a very successful format — that has been in place for over 10 years. But 5A has never addressed what might happen if the selection committee were to go away. The basketball committee wanted to address that.”

4A, meanwhile, “has struggled with a universally-accepted postseason format, and also needed to be addressed,” Borgmann said. “As the committee started looking at a variety of ideas, the concept off a format that was inclusive of all schools began to take form.”

The new CLOC structure calls for 66 teams in each classification in the 2016-18 two-year cycle. Those numbers may change slightly depending on things like play-ups, play-downs and enrollment changes among the membership.

But with that many teams, how to hold a state tournament?

The rough outline matches leagues into so-called “sectionals,” where four sectionals comprise the bracket. How teams would be placed on the bracket is yet to be discussed.

The 5A and 4A brackets would eventually pair down to a final 16 teams which would then be true-seeded.

Currently, the idea is only targeting 5A and 4A, but may expand to 3A-1A depending on feedback from the membership. (Class 2A has scheduled a meeting in September to discuss postseason format.)

Much remains to be done. CHSAA will send out a survey to member schools to gauge interest. Basketball committee members will also reach out to their respective classifications to discuss the idea, other ideas, or simply keeping things as they are.

If there’s enough to make a change, the committee will continue to work on the idea at its meeting in February 2016. From there, it would forward the idea in its report to the Legislative Council meeting in April.

If approved there, the new tournament structure would be implemented with the 2016-17 season.

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New schools placed into alignment

Five new schools were placed into regions by the committee:

• Beth Eden Baptist (Wheat Ridge) will play in 1A’s District 8
• Faith Baptist (Longmont) was placed in 1A’s District 4
• Likewise, Front Range Baptist (Fort Collins) will also be in 1A’s District 4
• Lotus School for Excellence (Aurora) will play in 2A’s District 4
• Atlas Prep (Colorado Springs) will play in the Confluence League of 3A