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. No. She had 208 kills in 131 sets as a sophomore in 2019 and 178 kills in just 46 sets as a junior in 2020 and saw her kill percentage leap up from 30.9 percent to 34.6 percent. Michigan State University. Players float in the air while they spike the ball and carve up chunks of real estate to dig out balls that appear impossible to return. The Miss Volleyball winner in 2011, Doyle helped Mercy to three consecutive district titles and a pair of final four appearances. RELATED: Schoolcraft senior overcomes scoliosis to become Miss Volleyball finalist. 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. Silina Damuni led Timpview High to a Class 5A state championship in 2020 with 868 assists, 69 service aces, 60 blocks and 211 digs. Ardren was still able to dominate in the pandemic and was named the Gatorade Player of the Year for Vermont. 2 overall player in the Class of 2020 by VolleyballMag.com. 1: Alisha Glass, Leland, Class of 2006. Melanie Laughman Shelby Dermer Dan Kadar Dave Purpura Jarrod Ulrey. Angie McGinnis, far left, celebrates a point with her Fraser teammates in the 2002 Class A state finals. She went on to a standout career at the University of Akron. The 6-foot-2 DeWeese is a terror at the net, and her athleticism also shows up in her distinguished careers on the basketball court and on the track, where she set a Kingsley record by high jumping 5 feet, 6 inches last spring. 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. Here's an incredible stat to wrap your head around. She earned all-state honors four consecutive seasons and Miss Volleyball as a senior in 2013. 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. She's also a basketball standout. She was selected Miss Volleyball and set national records for aces in a season (296), career aces (937) and career kills (3,584). 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 was selected the top setter in the Olympic tournament. 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). It's rare to earn Gatorade Player of the Year honors as an underclassmen, much less a sophomore, in any sport. 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). Olivia Lombardi, Des Moines Christian, Senior Des Moines Christian got 36 wins and made the Class 3A tournament in 2011. 10 overall (2022). Best High School Girls Volleyball Player in Every State for 2021 Will she play basketball for the Wave as well? T ake into account she was the only underclassmen named to the Cincinnati Enquirer's Division I All-State team and was also named the newspaper's Division I Co-Player of the Year. Schoolcraft senior Andelyn Simkins (5) looks to spike the ball against Kalamazoo Christian during the district championship at Kalamazoo Christian High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. As a setter and outside hitter in Camden-Frontier's lineup, Stump led her team last year to its first league title in more than a decade, and 2019 has been another historic one for the Redskins, who captured their first regional title in program history. She led Rogers to the Division 3 state championship as a freshman and the state semifinals as a sophomore. Few players can match the impressive stats the 5-foot-11 outside hitter has collected over the last three years, especially her 1,800 kills, but the big story coming out of Hudson this year is the fact that the Tigers are regional champs for the first time in program history. Video Center See top plays & highlights of the best high school sports. 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. 2021 Top Michigan Women's D1 Volleyball Schools - College Factual Marysville's Stephanie Booms was a standout at Marysville and went on to play at Hillsdale College. It takes six players working in unison to have success on the volleyball court, but it always helps to have a big-time talent that can deliver clutch kills or diving digs when the game is on the line. The merch sales alone would pay for the athletics budget. Phelan has 1,872 assists through her first two seasons of high school volleyball and would have easily cleared 2,000 if not for the shortened season in 2020. 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. 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. (Photo courtesy of Michigan State University), No. Weve tweaked our original list after reader input and have ranked the players. 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. An all-around player, Gallinger finished with 294 kills, 198 digs, 19 blocks . High school: Brookfield Central High School (Brookfield, Wisconsin), Accolades: MaxPreps All-American (2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), U18 Youth National Team (2021), two-time WVCA Division I All-State (2019, 2020). Through three seasons, Ackerman has 1,140 digs and 323 service aces. Bottom line: Is there a better high school libero (back-row player) playing the country right now than Hadlee Ackerman? East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. (Photo courtesy of University of Florida), No. Because they're going to have to deal with her for another three years. Trump played considerably less sets in 2020 than she did in 2019 like a lot of players on this list going from 101 to 71 sets played. Finalists. Stephanie Storen, who played college volleyball at Louisville, was the standout on the 1992 team, averaging 10.0 ppg. Welcome to the first edition of PrepVolleyball.com's Top 150, the country's best volleyball players listed from No. Hitter Sarah Tabit of Mount Morris attacks at the net. Grand Rapids Forest Hills. 12: Katherine Carlson, Pontiac Notre Dame Prep, Class of 2014. 4 Hudsonville in the regional finals. While there are some schools that still offer the sport, there has not been a large presence of high school mens volleyball in . Judge: Oxford Schools, staff immune from shooting lawsuits Jen was a member of four consecutive Class A state title teams from 1992-95 and went on to play at Indiana University. In her last full season of play in 2019, Wrobel was phenomenal with 373 kills, 64 service aces and 55 blocks. High school: Roncalli High School (Indianapolis, Indiana), Accolades: Two-time Class 4A All-State (2019, 2020), AVCA Phenom List (2020), Class 4A All-Central District (2020), AAU All-American (2019). High school: Victory Christian School (Tulsa, Oklahoma), Accolades: Tulsa World All-State (2020), Tulsa World Volleyball Athlete of the Year finalist (2020), three-time Class 5A State Champion (2018-20). High school: Wilmar High School (Wilmar, Minnesota), Accolades: AVCA Phenom List (2020), PrepDig.com Minnesota No. Plymouth Christian Academy9. She went on to a stellar career as a setter at Penn State and was a part of three national titles. As a freshman, Laurendine led Clinton to the Class 6A state championship. 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. 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. From hammering outside hitters, brick-wall middle blockers and relentless liberos, see the best high school volleyball players Michigan had to offer in 2020. The 5-11 outside hitter is currently playing at Valparaiso. Her 5,760 career assists rank first in MHSAA history. MP Stats for iPad Stat keeping . Few players in the country can say they went on the volleyball odyssey Gravatt and her family embarked on in 2020. Accolades: PrepDig.com Missouri No. 1 to 150! Ten high school players have been named finalists for Miss Volleyball 2021 in Michigan. Battle Creek St Philip8. 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. After reaching the state semifinals the past two years, the top-ranked Marlins are among the favorites to capture the 2019 Division 1 crown, and a big part of that is Mruzik, who was not only named Michigan's Gatorade Player of the Year in 2018, but also the national Girls Club Player of the Year by VolleyballMag.com. She still holds the IU career record for service aces and ranks in the top 10 for kills and digs. Jones had 808 assists in 72 sets in 2019 before putting up 275 assists in just 23 sets in 2020. Hoover head coach Chris Camper called McKinnon a "generational player," which might be the highest praise you could ever give to a prep athlete. 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. Tabit, a 5-9 hitter, finished the season with 1,076 and her career with 2,855 kills, No. While many areas of the country are forming male teams and development programs, there are still fewer opportunities for . McKinzie led St. Philip to four consecutive Class D state titles from 2009-12 and capped her career as the Miss Volleyball winner. Indian River Inland Lakes7. 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. She was a three-time All-American and served as an alternate for the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. 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. Published: Aug. 29, 2022, 12:54 p.m. Bloomfield Hills Marian celebrates after defeating Ann Arbor . Lake Odessa Lakewood5. Lange broke the MHSAA record when she recorded 1,063 kills in the 2007 season. She enjoyed a four-year career at the University of Minnesota and was academic-All Big Ten three times. 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 also led Hamilton to the Class 6A state championship in 2020 the first state title in program history. Farmington Hills Mercy9. Sydney Tomlak - 2022 - Volleyball - Duke University She finished as runner-up for Miss Volleyball and was an Under Armour second-team All-American. 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. 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. Milana is a sophomore starter at the University of Maryland this season. She also had 201 digs and 21 service aces. Annual subscriptions start at just $1.87/month! Bowman, who is 6-foot-3, led Darien with 197 kills and 23 blocks to go alongside 31 aces and 81 digs. Of course, state quarterfinal opponent Mount Pleasant will have something to say about that, but if Lake Orion is going to advance to Kellogg Arena, Robertson will play a vital role. 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. Meredith Norris, Corunna, Class of 2017. RELATED: Michigan high school volleyball quarterfinal brackets, RELATED: See Michigans final set of high school volleyball state rankings for 2019, RELATED: See Michigans 10 finalists for the 2019 Miss Volleyball award, Lake Orion's Kendall Robertson (19) celebrates a point during a 2018 Division 1 state semifinal matchup with Mercy on Friday, Nov. 16 at Kellogg Arena. (Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com)(Patrick Nothaft | MLive.com).