The District 6-6A Defensive Most Valuable Player<\/a> in 2025, Huynh has continued her strong play for Plano East this season. She has a team-high 545 digs and is second with 377 serve receptions behind Addison Tucker (442).<\/p>\n![\"Plano]()
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Plano East High School defensive specialist Dakota Huynh (2) makes a pass as Plano East High School outside hitter Marisabelle Sias (11) looks on during game one as Allen High School hosted Plano East High School in a District 6-6A volleyball match in Allen on Tuesday, August 19, 2025.<\/p>\n
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Huynh had 17 digs as Plano East beat Plano \u2014 then ranked No. 9 in The Dallas Morning News\u2019 Class 6A area poll \u2014 25-22, 25-22, 23-25, 25-15 on Tuesday. Plano East (22-8, 4-1 in District 7-6A), which replaced Plano at No. 9, takes on Plano West (20-4, 4-1) on Friday.<\/p>\n
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Huynh said she has had mixed emotions about the recruiting process, especially when it comes to watching her peers commit to colleges.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s both been fun and kind of frustrating at the same point because I can see everybody else commit. I also want to commit too, but at the same time I tell myself that I have my own path and I\u2019m doing it because I want to find the right school and not rush anything,\u201d Huynh said. \u201cI know my time will come. I have to take one step at a time. I have people around me to support me and I think that helps a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verbal commitments are non-binding. The first day high school senior volleyball players can sign a written offer of athletic aid is Nov. 11.<\/p>\n
Huynh said she is uncertain if she will wait until the end of Plano East\u2019s season to make a commitment. She said she is not concerned about a college opportunity getting away. Huynh said she has talked with college volleyball players who took their time on making a decision. All such players ended up staying at the same school and not transferring.<\/p>\n
Huynh said she is also prepared to take another path if that\u2019s what it takes to play college volleyball.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEven if I have to walk on, it doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d Huynh said. \u00a0\u201cI play volleyball because I\u2019m passionate about it and not just because I want a scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here are other top area players who haven\u2019t given a verbal commitment to a college yet. The undecided status is according to prepdig.com.<\/p>\n
Class of 2027<\/p>\n
DS\/OH Ryan Spencer, McKinney Boyd<\/p>\n
Spencer has returned to the Boyd lineup this season after battling knee injuries the previous two seasons. Spencer has 183 digs and 68 kills while helping Boyd to a 23-5 record, 4-0 in District 6-6A heading into Friday\u2019s showdown at Allen (28-2, 4-0).<\/p>\n
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RS Lucy Holmes, Lake Highlands<\/p>\n
Holmes leads Lake Highlands with 384 kills, 43 blocks, 62 aces and is second with 302 digs. She had 18 kills, 18 digs and 6 aces in Lake Highlands\u2019 27-25, 15-25, 25-23, 25-22 upset over Coppell on Tuesday. She has helped Lake Highlands to a 15-17 record, 3-2 in District 7-6A going into Friday\u2019s match against archrival Richardson Berkner (10-18, 0-5).<\/p>\n
Class of 2028<\/p>\n
OH Camryn Corso, Frisco Reedy<\/p>\n
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According to Reedy coach Katie Rudd, Corso is not planning on playing college volleyball. Corso is currently ranked No. 20 nationally among Class of 2028 college recruits according to prepdig.com. Corso has 151 kills and 152 digs for a Reedy team that is 20-6, 4-0 in District 6-5A heading into Friday\u2019s home match against Denton Ryan (20-10, 3-1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano East’s Dakota Huynh (3) digs the ball against McKinney Boyd as her teammates Simone Heard (8), Grace…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161,90417,88944,152522,5670],"class_list":["post-446368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-tp-high-schools","tag-tp-plano","tag-tp-plano-east-school","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}