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Summit only lost ten seniors. Granted, all 10 were very important players. But they return their stud bookend OT's as well as Tai Carter. The QB who will be taking over is a big strong sophomore with a live and accurate arm. There is also a sophomore RB with a ton of ability who will help make the offense even more dangerous. And Spring Station Middle has been consistently sending a lot of talent to Summit. Don't sleep on the Spartans.

Not saying your wrong, but I'd be surprised. Coleman has his stamp on the program finally and there is a lot to look forward to. Not just Carter and the bookend tackles. Spring Station is doing a great job of stocking the shelves. The rising 8th grade class is the most talented in their short history with the Twins leading the way. Coleman has an extremely supportive AD and Principal. Rezoning next year is likely to bring some former neighborhoods that are currently Indy's back to Summit. And I do think Nolensville is going to hurt Ravenwood's talent base. That's where the players are up there....why the coach left in the first place. Like I say, I'd be surprised.

That's very true. And if the current state of the feeders is any indication of success for the high schools then Summit and Nolensville look to be in great shape. Pete Miller also coaches Spring Station MS, the feeder for Summit, and they won their second straight WMAA title last month. The results and their HS in () Spring Station- 231.5 (Summit) Mill Creek- 173.5 (Nolensville) Page- 146 (Page/ Some Centennial) Heritage- 140 (Independence) Brentwood- 53 (Brentwood) Grassland- 28 (Franklin) Woodland- 25 (Ravenwood) Freedom- 0 (Centennial) Sunset- 0 (Was Ravenwood, will be all Nolensville in a few years)

Those were two nice feathers in the cap. The 15s age group at Alliance is crazy talented as well. Seven of the ten girls on that 14s team will be moving on to Williamson County HS's next year. Two will be at Brentwood. Brentwood has one payer on the 151s and one player on the 152s. The talent in middle TN is starting to spread out.

Summit wins a thriller! 63-61.

I missed this great post. I think you're right. The state champ from AAA has almost exclusively been the district champ. It's crazy looking back. Since 2008 the only teams to even play for a AAA state title have been the Woods, Indy, DB, and Farragut.

Here is what I am thinking after having watched every state title match and almost all the top teams in all classes this past season....combined with the K2 and Alliance rosters for this travel season. Knoxville was better than Nashville and Memphis last year...overall. But the senior class in Knoxville was much more talented than their junior class. This is reflected in the K2 teams. Most if not all the really talented juniors are playing on one of the two 18s teams. Essentially a 181a and 181b. But there are only seven of them. Their sole 17 team seems to be more developmental. The K2 161s are loaded. Of those juniors/ rising seniors playing in the 18s, two are Webb girls, two Hardin Valley, one Heritage, one AC, and one Berean Christian. The 161s have three Farragut girls and a smattering of players spread out across a lot of schools. I didn't look at the 15s but I am sure they are talented too like the 16s. Point being, there isn't going to be as much senior talent next year as in the past. The school that looks to take the biggest hit is Farragut followed by Maryville. Catholic is in trouble regardless of where they have to play. Cieslek and Gardner were the entire team. They're gone. Memphis is not completely dead. Briarcrest and St.Georges will be forces next year. I don't know much about their club scene except that Metro and the Memphis Juniors seem to split the talent. Houston does have some players but outside of that the public schools are DOA come post season. Nashville has a very strong group of high school juniors. The rising senior class is talented and tall but doesn't have the depth of the junior or sophomore class for that matter. In terms of club, what is interesting is that Alliance has a 6' plus setter on each of their ones teams from 15s thru 18s. The talent is spread out among the Wilco schools but some of the neighboring counties are getting girls on top teams. Not just Siegal girls either. Brentwood is well represented of course. So is Ravenwood. And so is Page. Here's how I see next season going based on the returning talent: AAA: Brentwood over Hardin Valley -keep an eye on Heritage AA: Signal Mountain over Hume Fogg - keep an eye on Camden Central A: South Greene over everyone else D2AA: Briarcrest over Brentwood Academy keep an eye on Baylor. But losing GG is huge D2A: Webb over St. George's

Just like Ravenwood last year. You're making my point despite thinking you're disagreeing. Yes, the regular season is for upsets and off nights. But come district tourney time, the best teams are locked in as you say. A look at returning Wilco talent shows there are three teams at the front of the pack. The others are strong in areas, but lack critical pieces to do anything other than maybe pull a surprise once or twice in the regular season. Injuries and coaching can always play a factor of course. But compared to what the rest of the state has to offer at the AAA level, one of those three teams will be getting hosed. Farragut's district is the only that might have the same issue. (I expect Hardin Valley to make a lot of noise this year) AAA volleyball in Chattanooga and the Tri Cities seem to be in a huge rut. And Memphis is a mess. The private schools have taken most of the top talent. Houston and Bartlett will probably make it back to state. But they will also probably be early exits for the second year in a row.

That's the problem, there won't be three Wilco teams making it out of district. Just two like the past. Based on returning talent, either Page or Ravenwood is going to be on the outside looking in even though they both will be two of the top 16 teams in the state, if not top 8. Kinda reminds me of a half decade or so ago when Centennial was easily one of the top teams in the state but Brentwood and Ravenwood had the district locked down.

Grayson Murphy

His brother is a 6'5" eighth grader.

Brentwood was not amused by the plan and appealed to the TSSAA to be moved back. They won and were put back in with the rest of the Willco schools. Dickson County was flipped and they are now with the Davidson Co. schools. The addition of Page makes this district even more brutal now.

They are still AA at the moment. Here is their new region and district...for now: Region 2 District 3 Alcoa High School (Alcoa, TN) Austin-East High School (Knoxville, TN) Carter High School (Strawberry Plains, TN) Fulton High School (Knoxville, TN) Knoxville Catholic High School (Knoxville, TN) Knoxville Central High School (Knoxville, TN) District 4 Anderson Co. High School (Clinton, TN) Clinton High School (Clinton, TN) Gibbs High School (Corryton, TN) Grainger High School (Rutledge, TN) Union Co. High School (Maynardville, TN)

I believe you are asking about MaKinde London. He did spend his senior year at Monteverde. Signed with Xavier. Transferred to UTC this year on a hardship waiver.

Thanks for putting that together.

Indian qualified the numbers when he did this by saying that if there was no date by the number then it was the old figure.

South Greene in A Page in AA Harpeth Hall looks good but Baylor and Briarcrest are just so dominant. As I thought, Hardin Valley is playing well. But they might not make it out of district. Then there's Farragut and Brentwood in the way. Brentwood gets their sophomore star hitter back from the US Team so they should be hitting another level soon.

LOL! Maybe the fast season is keeping people from posting on here! It is rushing by tho isn't it. I don't know all the teams that were there. I saw on another site that Catholic beat: Elizabethton in pool and bracket play, Karns, Heritage, and Signal Mountain in what I guess was bracket play. Based of the time of the match it appears that Catholic lost to Hardin Valley in the Championship 2-1.

The TSSAA has started posting enrollments. Though not yet on the TSSAA page, here are the Williamson County numbers as of 8-23-16: Franklin- 1777 Brentwood- 1764 Ravenwood- 1753 Centennial- 1673 Independence- 1673 Summit- 1420 Page- 1140 Fairview- 721 Nolensville- 472 (should be around 1050 when all four grades are in the building)

Tennessean Volleyball Primer: http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/high-school/2016/08/14/middle-tennessee-high-volleyball-primer-2016/88604486/

Hard to argue with those predictions and thus I think the reason for the lack of responses. I've seen Baylor and Briarcrest this pre-season. They will be very difficult to beat. Brentwood Academy has a strong junior class so keep and eye on them. Webb is Webb again. As for D1, I think you will see 5 of the 8 AAA teams from last year returning to State. I think Hardin Valley takes Bearden's spot. I don't know what's going to come out of Memphis. Houston lost a lot. Wondering what Collierville, Bartlett, Germantown, and Arlington have. In middle TN Blackman appears to be a bit stronger. Ravenwood has a lot of talent and should push Franklin. Beech and Station Camp will be good this year too. As for AA I think you could easily predict that all 8 teams from last year will return. Camden Central and Harpeth could make some noise though. Single A....I'll go with your prediction for the title match.

Looks like KVA is morphing into Club Unite. There is a club in Morristown that I believe is an off-shoot of Tri Cities Extreme and it's my understanding that they pull some Knoxville area girls to play there. The website: http://www.goextremevolleyball.com/

And they have a sophomore WR committed to UT who didn't see any varsity PT last year. Unreal.

Absolutely. I went back and looked at the TSSAA minutes. It goes like this. After two years into the four year cycle, any school that has a 20% rise or reduction in numbers will be examined and re-classified if the enrollment numbers would put them in a higher or lower class.

If I remember right, the TSSAA is going to re-examine enrollment numbers after two years and re-classify if a school's numbers drop or rise by more than 20%.