Olathe East, St. James and Bishop Miege are No. 1 in preseason KVA polls
After winning state titles in each of their respective classes last season Olathe East, St. James Academy and Bishop Miege start the new year atop the Kansas Volleyball Association preseason poll.
The three schools also made the CBS MaxPreps Volleyball rankings with the Thunder taking the top spot, Olathe East following in 20th and Miege ranked 43rd in the national poll.
KVA RANKINGS
Class 6A
1. Olathe East
2. Blue Valley
3. Blue Valley West
4. Olathe Northwest
5. Blue Valley Northwest
6. Blue Valley North
7. Washburn Rural
8. Maize
9. Manhattan
10. Derby
Class 5A
1. St. James Academy
2. St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Shawnee Heights
4. Topeka-Seaman
5. Bishop Carroll
6. Lansing
7. Andover
8. Valley Center
9. Mill Valley
10. Kapaun Mt. Carmel
Class 4A – Division 1
1. Bishop Miege
2. Louisburg
3. Topeka-Hayden
4. Rose Hill
5. Baldwin
6. McPherson
7. Wamego
8. Abilene
9. Andover Central
10. Ulysses
Class 4A – Division 2
1. Clay Center
2. Andale
3. Holton
4. Jefferson West
5. Frontenac
6. Goodland
7. Clearwater
8. Wichita Trinity
9. Colby
10. Santa Fe Trail
Class 3A
1. Silver Lake
2. Cheney
3. Garden Plain
4. Hesston
5. Hoisington
6. Wellsville
7. Nemaha Central
8. Southeast of Saline
9. West Franklin
10. Douglass
Class 2A
1. Hillsboro
2. Jefferson County North
3. Washington County
4. Smith Center
5. Coldwater-South Central
6. Central Plains
7. Sterling
8. Bucklin/Ashland
9. Olpe
10. Ellis
Class 1A – Division 1
1. Centralia
2. Goessel
3. Hoxie
4. Spearville
5. Waverly
6. Valley Heights
7. Linn
8. Thunder Ridge
9. Pike Valley
10. St. Paul
Class 1A – Division 2
1. Argonia
2. Logan
3. Dighton
4. Beloit-St. John’s/Tipton
5. Northern Valley
6. Wallace County
7. Wheatland-Grinnell
8. South Barber
9. Golden Plains
10. Weskan
This story was originally published August 27, 2014 at 2:41 PM.