In its 32nd year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, the Gatorade Company announces Alex Scherff of Colleyville Heritage High School as its 2016-17 Gatorade Texas Baseball Player of the Year. Scherff is the first Gatorade Texas Baseball Player of the Year to be chosen from Colleyville Heritage High School.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Scherff as Texas’ best high school baseball player.
The 6’2” 210 pound senior right-handed pitcher has led the Colleyville Heritage Panthers to a 37-4-1 record and a berth in the Class 5A regional finals. Scherff posted an 8-0 record on the mound with a 0.44 ERA and 89 strikeouts in 48 innings through 40 games. Ranked as the nation’s #15 player in the Class of 2017 by Perfect Game, he has thrown a pair of no-hitters this season and held opposing hitters to a .119 batting average.
An accomplished pianist, Scherff has volunteered locally on behalf of his church community and as a youth baseball coach. Scherff has maintained a 3.29 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball at Texas A&M University this fall, but is projected as an early round selection in June’s Major League Baseball draft.
Previous winners of the Gatorade Texas Baseball Player of the Year
2016 – Kyle Muller, Dallas Jesuit
2015 – Luken Baker, Oak Ridge
2014 – Tyler Kolek, Shepherd
2013 – Kohl Stewart, St. Pius X
2012 – Courtney Hawkins, Corpus Christi Carroll
2011 – Josh Bell, Dallas Jesuit
2010 – Jameson Taillon, The Woodlands
2009 – Shelby Miller, Brownwood
2008 – Taylor Jungmann, Georgetown
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher and 3-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw was the Gatorade Texas Baseball Player of the Year in 2006.
