We’ve got one last class to cover with our thoughts and predictions, here’s 1A: Saint Ansgar (28-4) vs East Mills (33-4): Saint Ansgar returns to State for the third straight year, after losing in the quarterfinals each of the past two seasons. The Saints come to Coralville as

We’re super excited for State Tournament volleyball today!! We’ve got a couple of classes left to release our predictions for, and we’ve got 2A here: Denver (47-1) vs Wapsie Valley (24-17): the defending champion Denver Cyclones have been on quite a run, with this season being

Continuing our state tournament predictions, with our picks in 3A: Western Christian (37-9) vs Mount Vernon (23-15): this is a rematch of the last two state championship finals, won in 2023 by Western Christian and last year by Mount Vernon. Incredibly, this is the Wolfpack‘s

Class 4A tournament predictions: Clear Creek Amana (41-3) vs Sergeant Bluff-Luton (19-12): so this one is very interesting, this is the matchup at state that a lot of us thought would happen, however, we thought it would be in the championship match. We had these two teams

We’re releasing our thoughts and predictions for next week’s state tournament in Coralville. Starting with 5A: Waukee Northwest (35-1) vs Indianola (27-16): we commented a month ago, prior to the release of the regional pairings, that Indianola is not a team that the top seeds

3A, 4A and 5A State Tournament brackets are set!

A big night of regional final volleyball tonight in 2A & 1A! We’re highlighting some of the most intriguing matchups that we’ll be keeping an eye on. 2A Region 1: Cascade (18-12) @ Bellevue (16-10): these two matched up October 7th at Cascade and went 5 sets with Cascade taking

With the regional finals now set in 5A, 4A and 3A, we wanted to circle back and look at how our picks fared. Out of the 48 regional finalist over the three classes, we got 45 (93.8%) of them correct. We missed on Bettendorf over Dubuque Sr (impressive 3-0 sweep by the Rams), West

Wow! Crazy five-setter in Burlington tonight!

Good luck to the Norwalk Warriors as they start regional play on Thursday, and congratulations to Jr Setter Hadley Michael on becoming the school’s career assist record holder! 2,200+ and counting.

Here are our final rankings of the 2025 season. Hard to believe we are here already, but postseason kicks off tonight. Looking forward to a fun couple weeks of regional action!

Wrapping up our regional predictions with 1A. We expect some chaos in this class, which will be fun to watch! We’ll have our final rankings out tomorrow morning, and we’ll see the final rankings from the IGHSAU sometime tomorrow. These will be the rankings that will form the

Here are our thoughts and predictions for 3A and 2A regionals: We’ll get 1A out this weekend.

We’re looking forward to postseason play starting next week. Here’s a look at how we think 5A and 4A will play out. We’ll share our thoughts on the other three classes shortly.

Our final rankings prior to the IGHSAU release of the regional pairings, which should be out tomorrow afternoon. Regional action will start in less than 2 weeks.

We are continuing our look at schools that have surprised us so far this season, now with the 3A class: What an impressive start to the 2025 season from the Red Oak Tigers! Red Oak has a long history of having strong volleyball teams, so it’s pretty much a given to expect a

It’s time to recognize some teams that have surprised to the upside so far this season, starting today with 5A & 4A, and finishing tomorrow with the other three classes. 5A: We’ve got 3 teams to call out in 5A, starting with Dubuque Hempstead. The Mustangs have a record of

2/2 continued): Dunkerton’s worst loss is against Cedar Ridge Christian (power rating of 109) and Ankeny Christian’s worst loss is against Pella Christian (power rating 108). Ultimately, both Dunkerton and Ankeny Christian have better wins, better losses, and a stronger strength

Knowing that we are getting close to post season play, we thought we’d take a look at the current rankings released yesterday by the IGHSAU. Before we do that, note that the regional pairings should be released next Wednesday the 8th, with next week’s rankings forming the basis

Here are our week five rankings. The rankings by IGHSAU are starting to be very important to post season brackets, as we are one week away from the release of the Regional pairings. This season is flying by… we will be playing regional matches in less than three weeks!