With a new high school sports year gearing up, we take a look back at the top photos from 2014-15 as captured by freelance photographers who are members of the
MaxPreps Professional Photographers' Network.
We asked photographers in the network to submit their three best photos from this past sports year — taken between Aug. 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 — from galleries published on MaxPreps.
We have pared those submissions down to the best 20 images of the year, which are displayed in no particular order.

A Mt. Vernon (III.) player scores the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning as the ball is jarred loose from the Highland catcher during a game in May.
Photo by Brian Lee