Year in and year out, the East Bay Athletic League is the best boys volleyball league in the East Bay. But is the Mission Valley Athletic League starting to catch up?
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The Deer Valley Tournament always gives us a great idea of which teams are going to be contenders, and it did so again this year. It reaffirmed some things, and it enlightened us to some things as well.
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Some schools have had enrollment increase or decrease so there is a little bit of shifting within the three divisions. Let’s look at the top contenders from each division.
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Some leagues have already started league play, and some are about to. So let’s look at the teams who should be the favorite in each league.
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The new boys volleyball season is upon us, which gives rise to some pressing questions at the start of the year. Here are five of them.
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Here is the 2012 boys volleyball All-East Bay First, Second and Third teams.
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In each division, there was one team that was clearly superior to the rest.
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The semifinals are here on Wednesday and the finals on the weekend as another great seasons is wrapping up.
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It’s North Coast Section playoff time as the brackets have been announced. I’ll break down each bracket.
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This post is updated at the bottom with a statement from James Logan coach Steve Burmaster.

American High boys volleyball coach Eric Cruzada died Monday apparently of a heart attack, the school’s co-athletic director Tom Bischofberger confirmed Tuesday.
“He’s had some health issues the last few weeks, but nobody thought it’d be as severe as this,” Bischofberger said. “He thought it was just minor little things going on, stress-related stuff.”
Bischofberger said an autopsy had not been performed yet but the belief is Cruzada died from a heart attack. He said Cruzada was 42 and a freelance web designer who worked from home, where he lived with his wife and 5-year-old daughter.
Cruzada had coached at American for over six years and had this year’s team in contention for a North Coast Section at-large playoff berth.
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