Top Players by Position (2026) Blockers - 2/27. Blissfield7. A middle blocker, Paolini starred in high school from 2001-05 and was ranked seventh in the nation among incoming college freshmen by Prepvolleyball.com. O'Connell has 1,319 career assists headed into her senior season. High school: Timpview High School (Provo, Utah), Accolades: Deseret News Class 5A Most Valuable Player (2020), Class 5A state champion (2020), Class 5A All-State (2020). Indian River Inland Lakes7. Only time will tell, but it's very likely that the following 25 players will have a major say in how the state semifinal picture shakes out. When it was clear that her native California wasn't going to have high school sports in the fall, Gravatt's family moved almost 2,000 miles to Maryville so she could play. MaxPreps High School Volleyball Rankings. Pontiac Notre Dame Prep4. (Photo courtesy of Michigan State University), No. Ten high school players have been named finalists for Miss Volleyball 2021 in Michigan. Tabit, who also holds a national record in the discus, is playing volleyball at Saginaw Valley. Lake Odessa Lakewood's Maradith O'Gorman goes for a kill over Grand Rapids Christian's Addie VanderWeide during a 2018 state semifinal match at Battle Creek's Kellogg Arena. North Branch had a 278-16-3 record during Kohlers prep career. OH Caroline Shantery, Sr., Riverside: Was named a second-team News-Herald all-star. SMCC defeated Manchester, 3-2. 1 Overall (2022). High school: Graham-Kapowsin High School (Graham, Washington), Accolades: Tacoma News Tribune Area Player of the Year (2019), AVCA Phenom List (2020), Class 4A Player of the Year (2019), West Central III/Southwest Bi-District champion (2019). 6 Merrill. This year, were taking it a step further. High school: Marian (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan) The landslide winner of the MIVCA Miss Volleyball honor and two-time Gatorade Michigan state player of the year recipient had 602 kills for in Marian's 53-1 state champion run. They represent the future of the sport in America. High school: John Burroughs School (St. Louis, Missouri). Lauren Paolini was a high school All-American at Saline and went on to play at Texas and in international events for Team USA. The 6-foot-3 outside hitter is in her freshman season at Michigan State. Rzeszotarski made the best of a less-than-ideal situation in 2020, guiding her school to an undefeated, 20-0 season and the Suburban Council championship with 290 kills, 141 digs and 40 service aces. We'd like to point out this seems like a gigantic missed opportunity to be the Hedgesville Hedgehogs. RELATED: Former Lowell athlete returns to coach volleyball team, and the Red Arrows are soaring, Mattawan senior Alli Wiese high fives Mattawan sophomore Rachel Meininger following the MHSAA Division 1 Volleyball Regional Final game between Mattawan High School and Northwest High School at Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, Michigan on Thursday, November 14, 2019. The 5-foot-10 outside hitter logged her 1,000th career kill this season and is likely headed for all-state honors for the third consecutive year, after earning a spot on the second team in 2018 and the honorable mention squad in 2017. She has Corunnas school records in kills, digs and aces and was MaxPreps All-American. Log in Leland3. This year, Christian has been Division 2's top-ranked team since the season started and Gates earned a spot as one of 10 finalists for the 2019 Miss Volleyball award. Temperance Bedford's Lindi Bankowski, right, is in the thick of the action at the net in the Class A state finals against Portage Northern in 1999. The 6-foot-1 right-side hitter was the only freshman to earn a first team spot on last year's Division 2 all-state list, and like her older sister, she's a dominant presence around the net. Rutgers will play volleyball at Davenport University next year, but not before attempting to lead Mattawan to its first state semifinal appearance with a quarterfinal win on Tuesday against Lowell at Jenison High School. Pierce is really bad news for elite opponents in Kansas on the high school volleyball and Midwest club level. Bottom line: With one season of high school volleyball left, Caleigh O'Connell already has a state championship and the school career assists record under her belt. Bottom line: Kamehameha High's Maui Robins kept up the family tradition by being named Gatorade Player of the Year in 2020. RELATED: Schoolcraft senior overcomes scoliosis to become Miss Volleyball finalist. High school: Bishop O'Gorman High School (Sioux Falls, South Dakota), Accolades: South Dakota Gatorade Player of the Year (2021), Class AA Player of the Year (2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), MaxPreps All-American (2020), Class AA State Champion (2020), USA Volleyball National Training Team (2020), PrepVolleyball.com No. Milana led Romeo to a Class A state title as a junior and earned Miss Volleyball honors as a senior in 2015. She was selected to the USA Volleyball National A2 team. Plymouth Christian Academy9. Craig is listed as a defensive specialist/libero, but she also can play outside hitter if needed. Carli Snyder was the Miss Volleyball winner at Macomb Dakota in 2013. Will she play basketball for the Wave as well? She also had 39 service aces, 24 blocks and 437 digs while being named one of the finalists for the Tulsa World's Volleyball Player of the Year the award her older sister won in 2019. 6 Merrill meets No. RELATED: Farmington Hills. (MLive.com file), No. Kelenna should return to the court in a big way after seeing her 2020 season wiped out. 25 Michigan high school volleyball players to watch in state quarterfinals Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 11:13 a.m. Grand Rapids Christian's Addie VanderWeide (14) jumps to hit the ball against South. Welcome to the first edition of PrepVolleyball.com's Top 150, the country's best volleyball players listed from No. Vermont doesn't do a great job of keeping up-to-date statistics for its high school volleyball players so information on players from the Classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024 weren't readily available. But that's behind her now, and the main challenge ahead for Simkins and the rest of her Schoolcraft teammates is Tuesday's state quarterfinal matchup with fourth-ranked Muskegon Western Michigan Christian at Hudsonville Unity Christian. O'Gorman was a bright spot in Lakewood's three-set loss to eventual state champ Grand Rapids Christian last year, finishing the match with a team-high 10 kills with a .250 hitting percentage. She also was the teams most valuable player for three seasons and helped East Kentwood to a state title in 2006. 9 Amanda McKinzie, Battle Creek St. Philip, Class of 2013. High school: Valley High School (West Des Moines, Iowa). Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), PrepVolleyball.com No. Reilly, 6-foot-1, earned those accolades by leading O'Gorman to an undefeated, 26-0 season and Class AA state championship with 400 kills, 260 digs and 131 assists. Almost all high schools and colleges in the United States have female volleyball teams, and most regions of the country have developmental programs for girls of all ages as well. Kalamazoo Christian5. Bottom line: Valley High outside hitter Hayden Kubik is arguably the top recruit in the Class of 2022 and headed to the nation's No. Because Rhode Island is off the beaten trail for many college volleyball recruiters, it would be smart of the in-state Division I schools to try and land Breitenbach and keep her in-state. 11: Abby Cole, Grand Haven, Class of 2013. Stucky, 6-foot-2, led Laramie to an undefeated season and Class 4A state championship as a junior, racking up 419 kills, 371 digs, 35 service aces and 32 blocks on the way to Class 4A Player of the Year honors. Every High School Volleyball team in the nation is ranked. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern4. 6: Amy Gruszynski, Pinconning, Class of 1998. But don't overlook her talent. High school: Hedgesville High School (Hedgesville, West Virginia), Accolades: West Virginia Gatorade Player of the Year (2021), AVCA Phenom List (2020), Eastern Panhandle Athletic Conference Player of the Year (2020), Class AAA state semifinals (2020), Class AAA All-State (2020). From hammering outside hitters, brick-wall middle blockers and relentless liberos, see the best high school volleyball players Michigan had to offer in 2020. At 5-foot-7, the senior outside hitter doesn't have the height of some of the other elite net players still in the postseason, but she makes up for it with an impressive 24-inch vertical that has allowed her to collect 451 kills with a .413 hitting percentage. High school: Marist School (Atlanta, Georgia), Accolades: Class 4A Player of the Year (2020), Class 4A All-State (2020), Class 4A State Champion (2020), two-time Class 4A All-Region 7 (2019, 2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020). Weve tweaked our original list after reader input and have ranked the players. Farmington Hills Mercy9. Muoneke was among the nation's leaders in kills in 2022, blasting 810 of them. RELATED: Mattawan senior continues family, team legacy as Miss Volleyball finalist, Mattawan's Natalie Foster (11) taps the ball over the net during a volleyball match between Bronson High School and Mattawan High School at Gull Lake High School in Richland, Michigan on Tuesday, October 8, 2019. We already knew how good Harper is from what she did in 2019, when she had 528 kills and 40 blocks. What that 2020 performance also did for Dreisbach was prove that 2019 wasn't a fluke, when she racked up 515 kills, 342 digs and 29 blocks and was the runner-up for The Morning Call All-Area Player of the Year honors an award she will have her sights squarely on in 2021. Strouse, who's 5-foot-11, was an All-State pick as a sophomore in 2019 with 140 kills in just 62 sets played. Bloomfield Hills Marian2. Battle Creek St Philip8. She's already on the AVCA Phenom List for 2020. She'll play college volleyball at Vassar. A second team all-state selection in 2018, the versatile 5-foot-6 Stump will play a key role in Tuesday's state quarterfinal showdown at Climax-Scotts, where No. Halter finished the season with 2,212 career digs and has a shot at passing 3,000 digs for her career in her senior season. Reitsma already has more than 1,300 career kills, including almost 800 this year, to go along with an impressive .358 hitting percentage. High school: Plainfield North High School (Plainfield, Illinois), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), VolleyballMag.com Top 25 Underclassmen (2020), Bugle News All-Area Volleyball (2020), Illinois Prep Volleyball All-State (2019). Which ones will lead their team to Battle Creek's Kellogg Arena? Snyder is a senior starter at the University of Florida as an outside hitter. High school: St. Mary's Dominican High School (New Orleans, Louisiana). Kyndra Abron was a top recruit coming out of Livonia Churchill and went on to play at Michigan State University. At last check, the 6-foot-1 outside hitter can touch 10-foot-1 on a jump approach. 3 on the career list (2,723) and went on to play as a middle hitter at Oakland University. Murray has tallied more than 1,300 kills in her Skyline career, and if the Eagles are to make it to Battle Creek, Murray will be the catalyst behind the state semifinal run. Even more impressive was the lack of dropoff between Lindseth and the player she had to replace 6-foot-3 University of Utah signee Allie Olsen. Few players in the country can dominate at the net like Hendrickson, who had 512 kills, 92 digs, 35 service aces and 30 blocks as a junior. Grand Rapids Christian is loaded with talented front row players, but VanderWeide is the top returner, after tallying 17 kills in last year's state championship match against Notre Dame Prep. 3 Overall Underclassmen (2022), AVCA Phenom List (2020), SCISA Class 3A State Champion (2019), PrepVolleyball.Com All-American (2020). Bottom line: C.M Russell High's Lauren Lindseth Lolo if you know what's up came out of nowhere to win Eastern AA Player of the Year honors in 2020, aided by a growth spurt that saw her go from a 5-foot-5 libero as a sophomore to a 5-foot-9 outside hitter as a junior. She has 78 blocks over the last two seasons and saw her kills jump from 80 to 192 from her sophomore to her junior season. The state has a rich tradition of competitive volleyball, and many of the top teams in the nation have come from Michigan. A four-year starter in high school, Fish was a three-time all-stater and led North Branch to a state championship as a senior in 2009. Bottom line: Get ready to watch Amaya Thomas dominate in the SEC sooner than later. One of the top recruits coming out of high school, Abron was named Miss Volleyball in 2007. The public school handed out bachelor's degrees to 9,450 students in 2020-2021. High school: Cheyenne Mountain High School (Colorado Springs, Colorado), Accolades: Class 4A All-State (2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), MaxPreps All-American (2020). Top Volleyball High Schools Broadneck High School - Annapolis, MD (7 Athletes) Southfield High School - Southfield, MI (6 Athletes) South Gwinnett High School - Snellville, GA (5 Athletes) King Philip Regional High School - Wrentham, MA (5 Athletes) Westside High School - Anderson, SC (4 Athletes) Miami Edison High School - Miami, FL (3 Athletes) (MLive.com file). She already has 1,580 career kills and racked up 427 kills and 338 digs in just 57 sets as a sophomore. Hescott and teammate Libby Fischer combined for 20 kills in last weeks regional title win over Fowler, and the front row duo will need another big game on Tuesday at Remus Chippewa Hills, where No. They are future NCAA champions and gold medalists who will become household names in the next few years. 16: Heather and Jennifer Magelssen, Portage Northern, Classes of 1994-95. Stephanie Storen, who played college volleyball at Louisville, was the standout on the 1992 team, averaging 10.0 ppg. Bottom line: There aren't a lot of top-level Division I athletes who come out of Wyoming regardless of the sport but Laramie High's Alexis Stucky is one of them. In her first season with the team, she had 881 assists, 238 digs and 81 service aces. 5 on the all-time national list. An all-around player, Gallinger finished with 294 kills, 198 digs, 19 blocks . High school: University High School (Orlando, Florida). (Rex Larsen | MLive.com file), No. . Our analysis found Michigan State University to be the best school for D1 Women's Volleyball athletes in Michigan in this year's ranking. It shouldn't go without saying that Hayden Kubik seems like she might be even better than her older sister. McBain4. She earned all-MAC honors as an outside hitter for the Broncos. Report any updates to japurcell@mlive.com or tag/DM @JaredPurcellDET on Twitter with your missing scores. Olivia Lombardi, Des Moines Christian, Senior Des Moines Christian got 36 wins and made the Class 3A tournament in 2011. Michigan State: West Catholic High School (Grand Rapids, Michigan) 2022 : 40: G : Abby Graham: OR : 5' 10" North Dakota State: St. Mary Academy (OR) 2022 : 00: G . 5 Notre Dame Prep capture its third consecutive regional title last week, and all that's standing in the way of Battle Creek is Tuesday's state quarterfinal matchup with Warren Regina. That makes sense, because older sister Madi Kubik was the Big Ten Freshman of the Year and National Freshman of the Year for the Cornhuskers in 2020. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com). Because they're going to have to deal with her for another three years. The merch sales alone would pay for the athletics budget. She's also a basketball standout. She's already a Top 20 recruit in the Class of 2023, according to PrepVolleyball.com, and there aren't a lot of those coming out of South Dakota. The 6-foot-3 middle blocker is the No. An all-state selection in each of her first two years with Lakewood, the junior middle hitter earned first team honors in Division 2 last year and is poised for more postseason recognition, as she leads the Vikings into the state quarterfinals for the sixth consecutive year. SUBSCRIBERS: CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE!-----What other coverage am I missing by not subscribing? She was selected all-state three times and earned second-team All-American honors from Volleyball Magazine. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. 7: Stephanie Booms, Marysville, Class of 2005. In fact, she may have already been the best player in the nation at that point. Cass City, Honorable Mention: Bridgman, Calumet, Centreville, Manistique, Manton, Morley Stanwood, Kent City, Lake City, 1. Bottom line: Kate Baker was the best player in Louisiana as a junior and one of the best setters in the nation when she led St. Mary's to the Division I state championship with 957 assists, 357 digs, 173 kills, 64 service aces and 33 blocks. Grand Rapids Christian7. She played her best in the biggest match of the season, racking up 21 kills in the state championship match victory over Papillion-La Vista South. Whitehall's Melissa Griffin, right, hits a spike during the Class B state semifinals in 2004. Photos by Ben Allan SmithPhotos by Ben Allan Smith, Mikayla Haut, Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central. 23: Olivia Kohler, North Branch, Class of 2009. She's committed to play beach volleyball for LSU. Rachel Ellis | MLive.com. She enjoyed a four-year career at the University of Minnesota and was academic-All Big Ten three times. The Miss Volleyball winner in 2011, Doyle helped Mercy to three consecutive district titles and a pair of final four appearances.