Bishop O’Dowd High School’s Rachel Stier, the top libero in the East Bay for the last two years, has verbally committed to play volleyball at the University of Marquette in the fall.
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Happy Holidays. Here are the All-East Bay Girls Volleyball Teams.
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This season was a lot of fun for me. I enjoyed covering it. Great year for Bishop O’Dowd, nearly reaching the state finals. Hats off to all the NCS champs.
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The Bishop O’Dowd High School girls volleyball team, by virtue of storming through the North Coast Section Division III playoffs, earned the No. 1 seed in the CIF NorCal playoffs, which start on Tuesday.
The Dragons will play the winner of the play-in game between Skyline, the winner of the Oakland Section, and Foothill-Palo Cedro, the runner-up in the Northern Section.
If the Dragons get past the first round, they will play the winner of the St. Mary’s-Stockton at Valley Christian-San Jose match. Bishop O’Dowd has already beaten St. Mary’s, and has beaten Sacred Heart Cathedral in three games. SHC, which earned the No. 2 seed, beat Valley Christian in three games in the Central Coast Section finals.
In Division I, Amador Valley earned the No. 4 seed, and will host Menlo-Atherton. A win would give the Dons a shot at top-seed Oak Ridge. Using the transitive property (sort of), Bishop O’Dowd beat Oak Ridge this year.
Granada, runner-up to Amador Valley, will face CCS champ Salinas.
Salesian came back from down 2-0 to beat Marin Catholic in the NCS Division IV final, and doing so earned the Pride the No. 2 seed. They’ll face Notre Dame-Salinas, which lost to Sacred Heart Prep in the CCS finals.
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For the first time, the North Coast Section volleyball playoffs have gone to a closed-door committee instead of a seeding meeting, and the brackets have been announced.
Let’s take a look at each division, which have been opened up to 16 teams this year.
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With league’s wrapping with their last two matches or with league playoffs, the North Coast Section playoffs are on the horizon.
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There is no guarantee that the best Acalanes High School girls volleyball team is going to show up on a nightly basis, but when it does, watch out.
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The Diablo Valley Athletic League might not be drawing a lot of attention this year, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t solid. It also doesn’t mean you should count Northgate out this year.
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Something wasn’t quite right for the Piedmont volleyball team.
Sitting at 2-6 overall and 1-3 in the Bay Shore Athletic League, this wasn’t resembling the team that went 22-4 overall last year and reached the North Coast Section’s Division IV title game.
Then, suddenly, they were that team again.
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When it comes to sports in the East Bay, teams in leagues such as the East Bay Athletic League and the Diablo Foothill Athletic League are very well respected and well known and in the sport of girls volleyball, those leagues usually contain most of the highly touted teams.
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