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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There aren’t many things that you can count on, but in the Hayward Area Athletic League, you can count on one high school dominating league play.
“There are very few constants in life, but the HAAL always has one: Bishop O’Dowd,” San Leandro coach Ed Smart said. “It’s them, Castro Valley, Moreau and everyone else. Things seem to be very cyclical with the remaining teams.”
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Miramonte’s Juliana Stivanicevic, 2008 Bay Area News Group’s East Bay Player of the Year, has verbally committed to UC Berkeley, accepting a solid walkon offer from the Bears.
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The Albany High School girls volleyball team might have solidified itself as the team to beat in the Bay Shore Athletic League, topping rival St. Mary’s in four games on Wednesday afternoon.
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If you’ve ever wondered whether experience matters, then stop wondering right now.
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