SPVB B18 Elite features (front row, from left) Albert Atczylo (Hinsdale South), Carter Stenmark (Naperville Central), Frederick Halper (Downers Grove North), Ryan Swartz (Glenbard West) and Kevin Lamp (Lake Forest), and (back row, from left) Joshua Gottlieb (Wheaton Warrenville South), Benett Schreiner (Wheaton North), Danny Risner (West Aurora), Rico Wardlow (Bolingbrook), Hunter Bailey (Timothy Christian) and Kevin Kauling (Neuqua Valley). This is the season SPVB B18 Elite has been pointing toward since finishing second in the 16 Open ...

Each week during the season, Illprepvb.com will name a "Player of the Week" selected from nominations provided by Illinois volleyball coaches. Coaches can nominate their players by providing a 100-150 word summary of their achievement and a 2x3-inch high quality headshot and sending it to illprepvb@gmail.com by noon on Sunday of the week for which they wish to nominate a player.This week's "Player of the Week" is St. Charles North's Katie Lanz. Lanz, a 6-0 senior setter/outside hitter and North Carolina-Wilmington recruit, had 6 kills, 6 di...

Camryn Hannah led Marist to a second consecutive IHSA Class 4A championship. (Photo by Dave Ruggles) Today, we continue to announce the Illprepvb.com 2018 Girls All-State Volleyball Team with those players named to the Second Team. Coaches across Illinois were invited to nominate players to the Illprepvb.com all-state team. Team members were selected based upon their accomplishments on the court as high school players, not on any future potential or current recruitment status. Players represent all four IHSA classes and hail from every cor...

Naperville North's Sarah Kushner (second from left) is among the players named all-state honorable mention. Today, we continue to announce the Illprepvb.com 2018 Girls All-State Volleyball Team with those players named to the Honorable Mention team. Coaches across Illinois were invited to nominate players to the Illprepvb.com all-state team. Team members were selected based upon their accomplishments on the court as high school players, not on any future potential or current recruitment status. Players represent all four IHSA classes and h...

SPVB 16 Elite features (front row, from left) Brooklyn Borum (Sterling), Emily Wilson (Joliet Catholic), Ariel Amaya (Plainfield North), Breelyn Borum (Sterling) and Zayna Meyer (Wheaton Warrenville South), and (back row, from left) Lauren Nyong (Aurora Christian), Leah Bylut (Shepard), Alexis Rodriguez (Sterling) and Ellie Hall (Naperville North). Missing is Abbey Clarke (Oswego East). No matter what the sport, no matter what the season, twins Breelyn and Brooklyn Borum of Sterling have been competing against and with each other as long a...

Marist's Katie Mather (11) developed her setting skills at 1st Alliance Volleyball Club. Question: What do Marist’s Katie Mather and Molly Murrihy (Memphis) and Downers Grove North’s Elizabeth Dunlap, who led their respective high school teams to the IHSA Class 4A semifinals within the past two years, have in common? Or former Chicago area standouts like Katie Wagner of Glenbard West, Ashley Holder (Akron) of Mother McAuley, Sarah Rose (Marquette) of York and Emma Decker (Villanova) of Nazareth, and current Nazareth standout Ella Sa...

Epic United draws girls from throughout southeast Cook County in Illinois and northwest Lake County in Indiana. Tucked away in the southeast corner of Cook County and the northwest part of Lake County Indiana is a little gem of a volleyball club – Epic United Volleyball. “We like to call ourselves the ‘hidden’ club,” said co-owner, coach and club director Ryan Summers.Epic United Volleyball is a combination of the old Altitude Volleyball and Diamond Elite Volleyball Academy. The 2013 merger was an effort to provide area players and parents...

Decatur St. Teresa junior Lexie Huck (28) led the Bulldogs to a third-place finish in IHSA Class 1A. (photo by Dave Ruggles) Today, we begin announcing the Illprepvb.com 2018 Girls All-State Volleyball Team with those players named to the Special Mention team. Coaches across Illinois were invited to nominate players to the Illprepvb.com all-state team. Team members were selected based upon their accomplishments on the court as high school players, not on any future potential or current recruitment status. Players represent all four IHSA cl...