PrepVolleyball.com’s famous year-end previews and predictions continue with the 17 Open division at the upcoming USAV Junior National Championships in Indianapolis. The division is set to begin play on July 2.

There are 36 teams entered in 17 Open to play a tournament that will be conducted over four days. Pool play is the order of the first three days. On Day 1 and 2, teams will play in six, six-team pools. The top four advance to the second round of pool, featuring three, eight-team pools. First and second-place teams move on to the challenge round, with the winners of the challenge rounds making the gold bracket.

Before getting to it, the most important thing to understand is the actual pools have not been released yet. The pools below are entirely made up based largely on our national rankings. Again, these are not the actual pools, but ones fabricated by us for the sake of making our predicted winner known.