25 . 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. The 5-foot-10 Borellis helped No. A year ago, top players from the state were narrowed to a list of 25 greats. Few players in the country can say they went on the volleyball odyssey Gravatt and her family embarked on in 2020. Bottom line: The only player from the Class of 2024 to make the list is Olathe Northwest's Skylar Pierce, a 6-foot-1 outside hitter who was named Class 6A All-State as a freshman in the largest division in Kansas. Tabit, a 5-9 hitter, finished the season with 1,076 and her career with 2,855 kills, No. 14: Katie Schau, Richland Gull Lake, Class of 2013. Watervliet6. Every High School Volleyball team in the nation is ranked. The future Western Michigan Bronco makes it look easy on the volleyball court, but her path to becoming a Miss Volleyball finalist wasn't always a smooth one, as Simkins battled scoliosis early in her volleyball career. She was selected to the USA Volleyball National A2 team. Stephanie Storen, who played college volleyball at Louisville, was the standout on the 1992 team, averaging 10.0 ppg. She led Burnt Hills-Balston Lake High to a state championship as a sophomore and was named Class A State Tournament MVP. Grand Rapids Forest Hills. A second team all-state selection in each of the past two years, the 5-foot-10 senior middle hitter leads Ida into its first state quarterfinal match since 2008, when the Blue Streaks meet Lake Odessa Lakewood on Tuesday at Dundee. 1-ranked recruit from the Class of 2022 in all of New Jersey, Camden Catholic High's Bella Craig is one of the shortest players to make the list at just 5-foot-3. We developed our star rankings system for each class with our own research combined with input and feedback from our recruiting panel created to assist us in the process in hopes of delivering a fair assessment of each player listed. Bottom line: Kaitlin McNeel led Godwin High to an undefeated regular season as a sophomore in 2019 on the way to Class 5 Region B Player of the Year and All-State honors. Ohio's best: The top 23 girls basketball players in the state ahead of the 2022-23 season. She still racked up 116 kills and 13 blocks. Log in As a senior, she totaled 717 kills, 501 digs, 121 assists and 107 blocks. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com file), No. Michigan State University. Emil Lippe | MLive.com. As a junior, she led Notre Dame Prep to the Class B state title. RELATED: Miss Volleyball finalist Kendall Murray from Skyline ready to carry on family legacy at Michigan, Mercy's Jess Mruzik goes for a kill during a Division 1 state semifinal matchup with Lake Orion on Friday, Nov. 16 at Kellogg Arena. She was the first MSU volleyball player to earn All-Big Ten honors three times and the first to earn first-team All-America honors twice (1995-96). Bottom line: Is there a better high school libero (back-row player) playing the country right now than Hadlee Ackerman? High school: Mount de Sales Academy (Catonsville, Maryland), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), Baltimore Sun All-Metro Volleyball (2019). Report any updates to japurcell@mlive.com or tag/DM @JaredPurcellDET on Twitter with your missing scores. Log in Bottom line: Hanna Henrie had South Anchorage among the state's elite teams again in 2020 after helping lead her school to a Class 4A state championship in 2019. Bottom line: The big story in Connecticut high school volleyball in 2020 was Guilford's Emma Appleman, but Darien's Aerin Bowman was almost as good and set herself up for a breakout senior season one where she'll be the odds-on favorite to bring home Gatorade Player of the Year honors. Like Murray, Mruzik will continue her volleyball career at Michigan, after committing to the Wolverines during her freshman year, but she's also not looking past Tuesday's state quarterfinal matchup with Macomb L'Anse Creuse North. DURHAM - The Duke volleyball program and head coach Jolene Nagel announced the addition of four players to the 2022 squad as Taylor Atkinson, Kerry Keefe, Millie Muir and Sydney Tomlakwill join. Skyline's Kendall Murray (8) spikes the ball during Skyline's regional volleyball championship game against Novi at Howell High School on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019.Jacob Hamilton | MLive.com. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. She's already on the AVCA Phenom List for 2020. Playing at 5-5 height, Meyer had 474 digs and served 23 aces as a junior, a year after getting 431 digs as a sophomore. High school: Century High School (Bismarck, North Dakota), Accolades: NDHSCA Class A All-State (2020), North Dakota Gatorade Player of the Year, Basketball (2021), North Dakota MaxPreps Player of the Year, Basketball (2021). Cass City, Honorable Mention: Bridgman, Calumet, Centreville, Manistique, Manton, Morley Stanwood, Kent City, Lake City, 1. See first Michigan high school volleyball rankings for 2022. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com). Baker has an outside-of-the-box athletic career path waiting for her. They represent the future of the sport in America. Accolades: VolleyballMag.com All-American (2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), Class 5A state runner-up (2019), VolleyballMag.com No. It can't be a very long list of the players who might compete for that title, but our money is on her. Fish was the team captain of a national club tournament team and finished her career ranked fifth on the Virginia Tech record list for assists. Olivia Lombardi, Des Moines Christian, Senior Des Moines Christian got 36 wins and made the Class 3A tournament in 2011. Accolades: PrepDig.com Missouri No. Hoover head coach Chris Camper called McKinnon a "generational player," which might be the highest praise you could ever give to a prep athlete. High school: Maryville High School (Maryville, Tennessee), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), The Daily Times Volleyball Player of the Year (2020), Class 3A District Player of the Year (2020). 4 Hamilton on Tuesday at Zeeland West, RELATED: How quitting helped Jordyn Gates become a Miss Volleyball finalist, Grand Rapids Christians Addie VanderWeide (14) hits the ball during the Division 2 regional championship game against Coopersville at South Christian High School on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019, in Byron Center, Mich. Brian Hayes | MLive.com, Addie VanderWeide, Grand Rapids Christian. 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. Wegener shined in Ida's five-set district championship win over Carleton Airport by tallying 34 kills, and she became the 24th player in state history to eclipse 2,000 career kills earlier this season. The 6-foot-3 outside hitter is committed to play for the University of Dayton, one of the best teams in the Atlantic-10. High school: St. Mark's High School (Wilmington, Delaware), Accolades: Two-time DIAA All-State (2019, 2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), two-time All-Catholic Conference (2019, 2020), DIAA state champion (2020), DIAA state runner-up (2019). 9 Amanda McKinzie, Battle Creek St. Philip, Class of 2013. Subscribe Already a subscriber? Tabit, who also holds a national record in the discus, is playing volleyball at Saginaw Valley. She has traveled the world to play with the U.S. McNeel did a little bit of everything in 2019 with 303 kills, 69 service aces, 48 blocks and 141 digs. 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. Which is a little bit of everything. McKinzie led St. Philip to four consecutive Class D state titles from 2009-12 and capped her career as the Miss Volleyball winner. Finalists. Val Sterk plays in an exhibition match for USA Volleyball against Michigan State in 1997. Almost every team still competing in the Michigan high school volleyball playoffs has at least one difference maker on its roster, so we're taking a look at 25 players to watch in Tuesday's state quarterfinals and beyond. One of several players on the list committed to play for the University of MInnesota, Wucherer is already a two-time All-State pick and racked up 421 kills with a hitting percentage just over 40 percent as a junior, when she was one of three unanimous picks for the All-State team. Another state title for Hoover and McKinnon in 2021 answers that question for good. She was ranked No. High school: Hamilton High School (Chandler, Arizona), Accolades: Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year (2021), VolleyballMag.Com All-American (2020), MaxPreps All-American (2020), Class 6A Player of the Year (2020), Class 6A state champion (2020). Network: 2022 Volleyball Finals Highlights After 2021 Runner-Up Finish, North Branch Ends 2022 Back On Top P-W Volleyball Adds to School's Championship Tradition with 1st Finals Win Marian Avenges Season's Lone Loss in Clinching 3rd-Straight Title 2023 Road to the Finals Practice Begins -- Aug. 7 First Contest -- Aug. 16 High school: Scarborough High School (Scarborough, Maine), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), Varsity Maine All-State (2019). She led the Kicking Mules to a state title as a senior in 2001 and a state runner-up finish in 1999. Hendrickson's talent might be generational. A big source of pride comes from the talented individuals who took the court this season, and the Michigan Interscholastic Volleyball Coaches Association honored more than 200 of the state's. SMCC's Mikayla Haut (8) blocks a shot during the high school volleyball Class C state quarterfinal match between Manchester and St. Mary Catholic Central at Ann Arbor Huron High School, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 in Ann Arbor. Ardren was still able to dominate in the pandemic and was named the Gatorade Player of the Year for Vermont. Michigan High School Athletic Association 1661 Ramblewood Drive, East Lansing, MI 48823 Office 517-332-5046 Fax 517-332-4071 info@mhsaa.com High school: Wilmar High School (Wilmar, Minnesota), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), PrepDig.com Minnesota No. High school: South Anchorage High School (Anchorage, Alaska), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), Class 4A state champion (2019). She's increased both her kills and her kill percentage each of her first three seasons, including 432 kills at a 37 percent clip in 2020. High school: Cardinal Spellman High School (Brockton, Massachusetts), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), Massachusetts Girls Volleyball Coaches Association Division 3 All-State (2020). Heather coached four seasons at East Kentwood and is in her second season as the volleyball coach at Portage Northern. Holland Christian9. 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. PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) A Michigan judge has ruled that staff and administrators at Oxford High School cannot be sued for a mass shooting that left four students dead and seven others wounded. In 2019, Brockway racked up a staggering 578 kills, 246 digs and 62 blocks on the way to a third-place finish at the Class 4A state tournament. Schau was a first-team all-state player and Miss Volleyball finalist in 2012 and finished her prep career with nearly 5,000 assists. Bottom line: Rya McKinnon became the first Gatorade Player of the Year from Hoover High after leading her team to the first volleyball state championship in school history. We already knew how good Harper is from what she did in 2019, when she had 528 kills and 40 blocks. Bottom line: Arkansas commit Kylie Weeks led Elkhorn South to the first volleyball state championship in school history in 2020. High school: Essex High School (Essex Junction, Vermont), Accolades: Vermont Gatorade Player of the Year (2021), two-time Burlington Free Press All-State (2019, 2020). 3 Mattawan on Tuesday at Jenison. 19: Kyndra Abron, Livonia Churchill, Class of 2008. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)s(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com). A first team all-state selection in 2018, Van Dyke capped her junior season with more than 500 kills, including 13 in last year's state semifinal matchup with Mendon, but it wasn't quite enough, as the Hornets swept Southfield Christian en route to the Division 4 state title. The 5-foot-8 junior outside hitter earned third team all-state honors in 2018 by tallying 627 kills, 313 digs and 66 aces, but she has taken her game to a new level in 2019 and the result is Beaverton's first state quarterfinal trip in program history. Bottom line: John Burroughs School's Vanessa Polk is one of the great two-sport stars in high school today. The public school handed out bachelor's degrees to 9,450 students in 2020-2021. Robins, at 5-foot-11, led the Warriors to an 8-2 record with 111 kills, 80 digs, 14 blocks and 11 service aces in their abbreviated season on the way to the Interscholastic League of Honolulu Tournament championship. Get the latest Michigan high school girls volleyball news, rankings, schedules, stats, scores, results & athletes info for high school football, soccer, basketball, baseball, and more at MLive.com. Hudsonville8. A two-sport standout in volleyball and basketball, Cole was dominating around the net in both. Eden Bower is one of seven sisters and is the third of those who will play volleyball for BYU, following older sisters Morgan Bower and Whitney Bower, who are currently on the Cougars' roster. Is McKinnon the greatest high school volleyball player in Alabama history? Ann Arbor Skyline7. Top Players by Position (2026) Blockers - 2/27. In high school, she was named the Gatorade national player of the year after leading Fraser to back-to-back state championships. Novi, Honorable Mention: Macomb Dakota, Saline, Coopersville, Lake Orion, Caledonia, Okemos, More:Metro Detroit volleyball notebook: Northville thrives with better chemistry, 1. 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. Weve tweaked our original list after reader input and have ranked the players. Before the start of her junior season, Bauer committed to Division-I Western Kentucky and made MaxPreps' pre-season All-American team, but those are in the past, and now the focus for Bauer and her Hudson teammates is a state quarterfinal matchup with Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central Tuesday at Adrian Madison. . 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. North Branch3. Need proof? 5 on the all-time national list. - Mercy's Julia Bishop serves the ball during a 2018 Division 1 state semifinal matchup with Lake Orion on Friday, Nov. 16 at Kellogg Arena. Ackerman led Marist to the Class 4A state championship in 2020 and was named Class 4A Player of the Year in the process. Traverse City St Francis10. High school: Ryle High School (Union, Kentucky), Accolades: Northern Kentucky Athletic Conference Division I Most Outstanding Player (2019), AVCA Phenom List (2020), USA Volleyball A1 National Training Program (2019), PrepDig.Com No.1 Kentucky (2022). 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. But don't overlook her talent. The only sophomore to earn first team all-state honors in Division 4 last year, the 5-foot-9 outside hitter tallied more than 600 kills, including 18 in Mendon's three-set state championship win over Leland. . (Cory Morse | MLive.com file), Kristen Arthurs, Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central, 2007, Kamrin Gold, Flint Carman-Ainsworth, 2011, Linsey Taatjes, Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern, 2003, No. Last update: 11/28/2022, Minimum . She was also third on the team with 24 service aces. Averaged 5.3 kills per set last season. Abby Cole drills a spike in a match against Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern during her high school career at Grand Haven. Her father, Garrett Wrobel, played for Ohio State and her older sister, Jenna Wrobel, was a four-time All-Big Ten pick at Michigan State and an All-American in 1998. On a side note, Hedgesville's mascot is the Eagles. 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. RELATED: Schoolcraft senior overcomes scoliosis to become Miss Volleyball finalist. High school: Porter-Gaud School (Charleston, South Carolina), Accolades: VolleyballMag.com No. She went on to earn all-GLIAC honor all four years at Northwood University. Bottom line: The West Coast is filled with up-and-coming volleyball phenoms California's Claire Little, Oregon's Sophia Gregoire-Salagean and Washington's Hailey Brockway, who was arguably the best player in her state as a freshman in 2019. Only seniors are considered for the award, sponsored by the Detroit Free Press since 2003. 14 on PrepVolleyball.coms Senior Aces list. The 5-11 outside hitter is currently playing at Valparaiso. All rights reserved (About Us). Here's a countdown of the top 25 volleyball players in Michigan from the past 25 years. 21: Sarah Tabit, Mount Morris, Class of 2016. She enjoyed a four-year career at the University of Minnesota and was academic-All Big Ten three times. Adrian Lenawee Christian2. Nissley led Century to an undefeated season and state championship in 2021, when she averaged 21.4 points and 3.6 steals, and seems headed for a top-level Division I program. Bottom line: Tori Harper became the first Gatorade Player of the Year from Bishop Manogue High in 2020 despite only playing in 24 sets during a shortened season. 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 . She's also led Lovejoy High to back-to-back state championships in 2019 and 2020. Bottom line: Logan Nissley led Bismarck Century High to its fifth state championship in the past six seasons in 2020. High school: C.M. The Super 7 highlights the top returning high school girls volleyball talent in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). We released the Classes of 2021 Top 150 and 2022 Top 150 and will continue with 2024 next . 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. She's now 6-foot-1, and opponents have to be terrified at what she might do the next two seasons. As a junior, she helped Churchill to the Class A state title and posted a championship game record with 35 kills. Brockway has shot up two inches since her freshman season. 3 Overall Underclassmen (2022), AVCA Phenom List (2020), SCISA Class 3A State Champion (2019), PrepVolleyball.Com All-American (2020). 1 to 150! No. High school: Darien High School (Darien, Connecticut), Accolades: GameTimeCT All-State (2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), two-time All-FCIAC (2019, 2020). Meyer was a Class 4A All-State pick in 2021 after the team won the state title. All that being said, Ella Wrobel could be the best of the bunch. She was a three-time All-American and served as an alternate for the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. Named Miss Volleyball in 2004, the 6-foot setter had a sterling career in high school and college.