Several area volleyball teams will begin the 2026 season ranked among the Kansas Volleyball Association\u2019s preseason top 10.<\/p>\n
Manhattan High leads the local group, coming in at No. 5 in Class 6A after a 28-10 season that included the Indians\u2019 third consecutive trip to the state tournament.<\/p>\n
Manhattan returns a strong core from last year\u2019s team, including senior outside hitter Bailey Busch. The 5-foot-8 senior broke her own school record with 409 kills last season while adding 49 aces and 290 digs. Busch earned second-team all-state honors from the KVA and has committed to continue her volleyball career at Weber State.<\/p>\n
The Indians lost three seniors from last year\u2019s team but return several key contributors as they look to make another run at state.<\/p>\n
Rock Creek is ranked No. 9 in Class 4A after going 33-8 and reaching the state tournament last season.<\/p>\n
The Mustangs return five varsity players from last year\u2019s team under sixth-year coach Alli Snapp, who has compiled a 146-51 record at Rock Creek. Aubrey McCarn, Kylee Frazee, Karli Reitz and Lucy Martinie headline the returning group as Rock Creek looks to build on another successful season.<\/p>\n
Riley County checks in at No. 10 in Class 3A following a 25-16 season. The Falcons reached the sub-state championship last year before falling to Silver Lake, coming within a set of returning to the state tournament.<\/p>\n
Wabaunsee rounds out the area\u2019s ranked teams at No. 4 in Class 1A-Division I. The Chargers also reached the sub-state championship last season, defeating Clifton-Clyde in the semifinal before falling to Centralia on their home floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several area volleyball teams will begin the 2026 season ranked among the Kansas Volleyball Association\u2019s preseason top 10.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[32555,4029,26038,25209,75,84,83,9,24,63,124638,107675,123707,319,123708,124637,124639,73242,75686,4030,4027,1339],"class_list":["post-331224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-athletic-sports","tag-ball-games","tag-balls","tag-indoor-sports","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-partial-squatting-position","tag-rock-creek-potomac-river-tributary","tag-spherical-objects","tag-sports","tag-sports-equipment","tag-sports-rules-and-regulations","tag-squatting-position","tag-summer-olympic-sports","tag-summer-sports","tag-team-activities","tag-team-sports","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}