Bottom line: Having an elite, 6-foot setter is like having a 6-foot-9 point guard in basketball, which is what Baylor has on the way in Lovejoy High superstar Averi Carlson. . Her marks for kills and career aces (447) remain in the top-five in the MHSAA record books. 2 recruit from the Class of 2022 by VolleyballMag.com and became the first Arizona Gatorade Player of the Year from Hamilton High in 2021. She's committed to play beach volleyball for LSU. Pennsylvania High School Volleyball: Top Passers in 2026. . A two-time all-state pick, she also played for the Michigan Elite club team that won a USA Volleyball national championship. Olivia Kohler, the Miss Volleyball winner from North Branch, went on to play at Grand Valley State University. Bloomfield Hills Marian2. Bottom line: One of the top players in the Class of 2023, Clinton High's Lakin Laurendine is already a two-time All-State pick and led her school into the Class 6A state playoffs in 2020. (MLive.com file), No. As a senior, she totaled 717 kills, 501 digs, 121 assists and 107 blocks. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com). 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. Every High School Volleyball team in the nation is ranked. High school: Porter-Gaud School (Charleston, South Carolina), Accolades: VolleyballMag.com No. High school: Kamehameha Kapalama (Honolulu, Hawaii), Accolades: Hawaii Gatorade Player of the Year (2021), Honolulu Star-Advertiser All-State (2019), two-time All-Interscholastic League of Honolulu (2019, 2020), Division I State Champion (2019), All-Division I State Tournament Team (2019). 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. Published: Aug. 29, 2022, 12:54 p.m. Bloomfield Hills Marian celebrates after defeating Ann Arbor . That's the kind of athleticism that elite Division I colleges are looking for. 1 Recruit Nebraska (2022), Class A All-State (2020), AAU All-American (2020). She led the Kicking Mules to a state title as a senior in 2001 and a state runner-up finish in 1999. Bottom line: Julia Yurkovich is already a two-year starter for St. Mark's and a two-time DIAA All-State selection. Lange broke the MHSAA record when she recorded 1,063 kills in the 2007 season. Elite high school girls volleyball players across the country represent the future of the sport. (Photo courtesy of Hillsdale College), No. She enjoyed a four-year career at the University of Minnesota and was academic-All Big Ten three times. She was selected Miss Volleyball and set national records for aces in a season (296), career aces (937) and career kills (3,584). They already won a state championship for Kamehameha in 2019. Hillsdale Academy, Honorable Mention: Waterford Our Lady of the Lakes, McBain Northern Michigan Christian, St Joseph Michigan Lutheran, Source: Michigan High School Athletic Association. 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. 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. The Miss Volleyball winner in 2014, Carlson topped 1,000 kills in each of her final two seasons and more than 3,100 for her career. 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. Mount Pleasant Sacred Heart6. 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. 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), No. She posted 360 kills, 152 digs and 28 blocks for Skutt Catholic. It shouldn't go without saying that Hayden Kubik seems like she might be even better than her older sister. Stoven went on to a four-year career as an outside hitter at Lake Superior State University. 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. 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. The 5-foot-3 Osorio earned second team all-state honors as a sophomore libero in 2018 after helping Leland reach the state finals, where she tallied five digs in a three-set championship game loss to Mendon. Cincinnati Enquirer. High School Best High School Girls Volleyball Player in Every State for 2022 By Tony Adame on August 18, 2022 NDCL Athletics The future of volleyball in the United States like any other sport is usually first discovered in the high school ranks. 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. 2: Angie McGinnis, Fraser, Class of 2004. (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. 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. Reitsma already has more than 1,300 career kills, including almost 800 this year, to go along with an impressive .358 hitting percentage. She has averaged 4.6 kills per set over her first three high school seasons. These are the best high school girls volleyball player in all 50 states from the classes of 2022, 2023 and 2024. 1 Mendon with a state semifinal berth on the line. Bottom line: The No. Log in Angie McGinnis, far left, celebrates a point with her Fraser teammates in the 2002 Class A state finals. Stucky, who is committed to Minnesota, is ranked the No. Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern4. And that's probably where her future is. 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. No. 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. 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. She followed that up with a basketball state championship a few months later. Hoover head coach Chris Camper called McKinnon a "generational player," which might be the highest praise you could ever give to a prep athlete. She finished as runner-up for Miss Volleyball and was an Under Armour second-team All-American. Photos by Ben Allan SmithPhotos by Ben Allan Smith, Mikayla Haut, Monroe St. Mary Catholic Central. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com). 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). A four-year starter, Booms was part of a Marysville dynasty that posted a 232-6-1 record during her high school career. She'll continue her athletic and academic careers at Saginaw Valley State. The younger sister of Oral Roberts middle blocker/outside hitter and former teammate Jaxie Wakley, Bella Wakley racked up a staggering 566 kills on the way to the 2020 Class 5A state title. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com). Here are the Michigan high school volleyball rankings as of Oct. 24: Division1 1. High school: Bishop Manogue Catholic High School (Reno, Nevada), Accolades: Nevada Gatorade Player of the Year (2021), AVCA Phenom List (2020), Class 5A Northern Region champion (2020), two-time All-Sierra League (2019, 2020). They are future NCAA champions and gold medalists who will become household names in the next few years. Coming from the small school in northern Michigan, Glass went on to a big stage. She went on to play at Grand Valley State University from 2009-11. Yurkovich and St. Mark's exacted some revenge in the DIAA state championship match against Padua, which defeated St. Marks in the 2019 state final. In 2020, she had a whopping 183 kills in just 40 sets played in 2020. High school: Notre Dame Prep (Pontiac, Michigan), Accolades: MaxPreps All-American (2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), three-time MLive.com Division I All-State (2019, 2020), PrepDig.Com No. 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. Rachel Ellis | MLive.com. Little had 461 kills, 247 digs and 35 blocks in 2019. Strouse, who's 5-foot-11, was an All-State pick as a sophomore in 2019 with 140 kills in just 62 sets played. Bottom line: University of Florida commit Carly Hendrickson might be the best girls volleyball player in high school today. She's already a two-time All-State pick who still averaged 4.3 kills per set despite playing in just 49 sets in 2020. Another state title for Hoover and McKinnon in 2021 answers that question for good. Corunna's Meredith Norris drives home a spike in a district tournament game against Goodrich in 2015. 7: Stephanie Booms, Marysville, Class of 2005. 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. 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: 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. No. Brian Hayes | MLive.com. Breean Walas, a junior on the 1996 team, averaged 13.3 ppg before playing . MaxPreps Follow your favorite high school teams and players. The 6-foot-3 outside hitter is committed to play for the University of Dayton, one of the best teams in the Atlantic-10. She also was part of the U18 gold medal team in Egypt last September while also landing on the Lincoln Journal Star Super-State first team and the Omaha World-Herald All . Pinconning's Amy Gruszynski (Courtesy photo), No. - 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. She went on to play at the University of Florida and completed her career as the schools all-time leader in assists. Harper Murray, sr., Ann Arbor Skyline (Michigan) Murray notched her second straight season with at least 650 kills, and she had 700 as a freshman. 2 Camden-Frontier at Climax-Scotts. (Mike Mulholland | MLive.com file), No. 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. (Josh Mauser | MLive.com file), No. The Miss Volleyball winner in 2016, Norris was a four-year captain and MVP at Corunna while recording more than 3,000 kills, including a state record 56 in a district finals match. 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. 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). Her older cousin Aloha Robins-Hardy was named Hawaii's Gatorade Player of the Year in 2014. Monroe St Mary Catholic Central2. High school: Mills Godwin High School (Henrico, Virginia), Accolades: Class 5 Region B Player of the Year (2019), AVCA Phenom List (2020), Richmond Times-Dispatch All-Metro (2019). Posted 204 kills, 170 digs, and 28 aces for the Beavers. 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. Volleyball played at the highest level really is amazing. She was an alternate on the U.S. Olympic team in 2016. North Branch3. 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. 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. She was listed as an All-American by Prepvolleyball.com. While many areas of the country are forming male teams and development programs, there are still fewer opportunities for . 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. On Tuesday, Bishop and her Mercy teammates will face Macomb L'Anse Creuse North with another state semifinal berth on the line. Baker has an outside-of-the-box athletic career path waiting for her. She was ranked No. 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. This year, the 5-foot-11 outside hitter and Albilene Christian University commit has Southfield Christian back in the state quarterfinals for the third consecutive season, and she figures to play a big role in Tuesday's matchup at Mayville between the fourth-ranked Eagles and unranked Ubly. Which is a little bit of everything. (Danny Miller | MLive.com file), No. Need proof? YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. 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. Bottom line: Kennedy Phelan was a dynamo for Fayetteville on the way to winning the Class 6A state championship in 2020. (J. Scott Park | MLive.com). But she still put up impressive numbers. (Courtesy photo), No. Schau was a first-team all-state player and Miss Volleyball finalist in 2012 and finished her prep career with nearly 5,000 assists. She also improved her kill percentage over 10 whole points from her freshman to sophomore seasons, going from 35.3 to 46.6 percent. Lake Odessa Lakewood5. The Miss Volleyball winner in 2011, Doyle helped Mercy to three consecutive district titles and a pair of final four appearances. 22: Lauren Jones, East Kentwood, Class of 2007. That was an improvement from 11.2 to 12.0 assists per set. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)s(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com). RELATED: Freeland, Caitlinn Pistro jump past Swan Valley for district title, Grand Rapids Christians Jordyn Gates (1) sets the ball against Grand Rapids South Christian during the Division 2 district tournament championship at Grand Rapids Christian High School on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019.