Many of you probably subscribe to PrepVolleyball.com and review their state rankings and things. They seem to do a very comprehensive job of covering teams on a nationwide level and do a lot of research to make their rankings.
Last week I read on the site that there are over 11,000 high school volleyball teams playing this fall. Think about that number....11,000...that is a lot of teams. Now consider this, of the 11,000 teams playing here is how the top teams in our state stack up: Assumption ranked 12th, Sacred Heart ranked 15th, Notre Dame ranked 26th, Mercy ranked 41st and Henry Clay is "on the cusp" right outside the Top 100.
So in our state we have 5 teams in the top 100 out of 11,000 teams. Tremendous tribute to the work these girls put in year round.
Makes it even a bigger joke that of the 5, only 4 will make it to State and of those 4 only 1 makes it to the Championship. I just can't believe something can't be done to make some changes. I am pretty sure that there are no other sports in the state that can boast to this kind of success on a National level. And this is not a one time thing, this is every year these same teams are in the mix nationally.