Both the Hays High Indians and Thomas More Prep-Marian volleyball teams are ranked in the Kansas Volleyball Association Preseason Poll. The Indians sit at No. 9 in Class 5A while the defending state champion Monarchs are ranked seventh. Plainville is ranked 10th in 2A. Smith Center, who qualified for the 2A State Tournament a year ago, is ranked second.

Class 6A
1. Blue Valley North
2. Olathe Northwest
3. Washburn Rural
4. Lawrence-Free State
5. Gardner-Edgerton
6. Blue Valley West
7. Blue Valley
8. Manhattan
9. Lawrence
10. Garden City

Class 5A
1. St. James Academy
2. St. Thomas Aquinas
3. Lansing
4. De Soto
5. Bishop Carroll
6. Topeka-Seaman
7. Basehor-Linwood
8. Maize South
9. Hays
10. McPherson

Class 4A
1. Rose Hill
2. Topeka-Hayden
3. Louisburg
4. Andale
5. Nickerson
6. Wichita Trinity
7. Circle
8. Santa Fe Trail
9. Ulysses
10. Independence

Class 3A
1. Nemaha Central
2. Burlington
3. Royal Valley
4. Holton
5. Beloit
6. Hesston
7. Thomas More Prep-Marian
8. Silver Lake
9. Cheney
10. Riverton

Class 2A
1. Heritage Christian
2. Smith Center
3. St. Mary’s-Colgan
4. Meade
5. Valley Heights
6. Garden Plain
7. Bluestem
8. St. Marys
9. Sedgwick
10. Plainville

Class 1A
1. Centralia
2. Sylvan-Lucas
3. Goessel
4. Argonia
5. Hanover
6. Thunder Ridge
7. Beloit-St. John’s/Tipton
8. Kiowa County
9. South Central
10. Rural Vista