Below please find the top 130 18-year-old club volleyball teams in the country as of the second week of January, 2020. The rankings are based on the information we have received to date from clubs across the country as well as input we have received from our 300-member strong Club Rankings Team (“CRT”).

The current plan is for the 17s rankings to be released tomorrow, 16s on Wednesday and 15s on Thursday.

Please note: these rankings are not the product of a computerized system. As you peruse the rankings, remember these things:

1. The pre-season rankings are a prediction of where teams will be at the end of the season not what has happened to date.

2. The rankings are for fun and for discussion and nothing else.

3. The narratives include many but not all of the impact players for any given team. I use submitted forms as the basis for the narratives and never guess.

4. We have been asking for team info since mid-November and have asked many times. If clubs that should plainly be in the rankings – I won’t embarrass them by naming them here – are not, it’s because the club did not come through with a form, an informative email, a roster…anything…that would help me evaluate what they look like for 2020. Look for these and other clubs in our 55-strong Honorable Mention section. Note that some strong 17s last year might not field 18s teams in 2020. Perhaps that’s why there have been no responses to some of my queries…

That’s it for now! Thanks to everyone who helped get this ranking out in a relatively short time frame. I could not have done it without all of you!