You did miss my point. The three girls that did make the team are quite qualified and deserving of nomination. The point is that as a member of both organizations, as I am, I can nominate as many girls as I want to be voted on for the All-State team. The problem is the only actual vote is not for All-State: it is for All-American. In my experience over the years, every single player that I have nominated from our team or others has made the All-State team. I haven't even looked at the final list, but I know that the girls that I nominated are there, all of them.
My point is that if you have fifty All-State players or a hundred or two hundred, at some point this prestigious award simply becomes a participation award. I don't really have a solution. When voting on All-American, I didn't know more than two-thirds of the players, and knowing where we have traveled, I probably knew more than most. I didn't feel very confident or competent in choosing the top players. Picking a team would be much more difficult. The list probably should be screened or voted on by a committee, like the Senior All-Star Match. Otherwise,I think that the list of All-State players will continue to grow each year until it simply becomes an honorable mention.