Michio Chicago VBA's Savannah Weathers (10) of Marist is one of four players returning from the team that finished third in the 16 American division at last summer's USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Volleyball Championship in Las Vegas. On the home page is Illini Elite's Lilly Bosworth of IHSA Class 3A champion Mahomet-Seymour. (Photos by Dave Ruggles) Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, witho...

Beluse United 18 Cyclones welcomes back four players from the team that won the 18 Classic division title at the AAU Girls Junior National CHampionships in Orlando, Florida, last summer. Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Illprepvb.com, LLC’s written permission. By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThe Illinois girls’ club season will begin in earnest in less than two weeks, and ...

Lockport's Malia Cole (15) is one of seven players returning for UNO Girls 16 Elite from last year's successful 15s team. _Photo by Dave Ruggles) Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Illprepvb.com, LLC’s written permission. By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThe Illinois girls’ club season will begin in earnest this weekend, and today we continue our look at some of the top teams in ...

Freshman outside hitter Lexie Grevengoed (2) led Joliet West in kills this fall and is a big reason why her Sports Performance team enters the season ranked No. 1 among 15s. On the home page is anouther SPVB 15 Elite player, Allie Coyne, who led Wheaton Warrenville South in assists this fall. (Photos by Dave Ruggles) Notice: You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, re-post, or use the content of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video, without Illprepvb.com, LLC’s written permissi...

Bloomington Central Catholic's Kampbell Niepagen (7) lit up the scoreboard at Redbird (CEFCU) Arena last weekend. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThat’s a wrap on the 50th anniversary of the IHSA girls volleyball tournament.It’s time to close the books on a girls’ high school season (with the exception of the announcement of our all-state team later this month) that provided more than a few surprises.There was some talk last weekend about the IHSA possibly moving Saturday’s third-place games to an alte...

Ellie Klokkenga (6) and Celia Cross (7) will try to lead Hartsburg-Emden back to Redbird Arena after their second-place IHSA Class 1A finish a year ago. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorLet the countdown to Redbird (now CEFCU, but it will always be Redbird to us) Arena begin.(What else is there to say?)Here are the final regular-season Michio Chicago VBA/Illprepvb.com Girls H.S. Rankings:Michio Chicago VBA/Illprepvb.com 2024 Girls H.S. Rankings(last week’s ranking in parenthesis) Class 4A1. Benet Academy (...

Benet Academy's Ava Ledebuhr (left) and tournament MVP Aniya Warren (right) helped the Redwings defeat Mother McAuley, 25-13, 25-22, in Saturday's championship match of the Autumnfest tournament hosted by Glenbard East. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorA champions division in volleyball?Joe Trost, a former colleague at the (Chicago) Sun-Times, recently tweeted that a champions division, separating the top eight schools into their own playoff series, could be coming soon to the IHSA football playoffs.I...

All eyes will, be on Glenbard East this weekend for a potential showdown between defending IHSA Class 4A champion Mother McAuley and unbeaten Benet Academy. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThe seeds, pairings and brackets are out for the 2024 IHSA tournament, and while we should have learned better from our disastrous experience with “Pigskin Picks” at a former media stop, we decided to go out on a limb and try to predict the Elite Eight in each class based on the seeds and brackets. Disagree? Like the...

Mother McAuley and Sydney Buchanan (13) finished third at last weekend's ASICS Challenge, but still have not lost to a team from Illinois. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorIf you’re a fan of rankings, it’s a big week for scoreboard watching.It’s an even bigger week with seeding to the IHSA tournament scheduled to be held virtually this week. Of course, we prefer that coaches argue their cases in a public forum to avoid some of the shenanigans that occurs (albeit rarely) in certain sectionals.So, like many t...

Mother McAuley libero Samantha Falk and the Mighty Macs defeated Marist, 27-25, 25-23, in front of a packed house on 115th and Pulaski Road last Thursday. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) By Phil BrozynskiIllprepvb.com EditorThirteen in-state schools will join 11 schools from throughout the Midwest and Florida for the annual ASICS Challenge this weekend at Mother McAuley.The local hopefuls include Downers Grove North, Huntley, Joliet Catholic Academy, Marist, Minooka,Mother McAuley, Montini, Nazareth Academy, New Trier, Sandburg, St. Charl...