Area teams in the latest Kansas Volleyball Association rankings

Posted October 1, 2026

After the classifications were released last week by KSHSAA, there has been some shifting in the lower classifications in particular in the latest Kansas Volleyball Association rankings.

Garden City drops to No. 10 in Class 6A, while Lakin makes its debut at No. 10 in Class 3A. South Gray slides down a spot in Class 1A, Division I, coming in at No. 5. Two area teams find themselves ranked in Class 1A, Division II. Ingalls is No. 2, while Greeley County is at No. 7, after being ranked 10th in 1A, Division I the previous week.

Class 6A 
1. Blue Valley West (1)
2. Mill Valley (2)
3. Blue Valley (3)
4. Manhattan (7)
5. Lawrence Free State (4)
6. Gardner-Edgerton (9)
7. Olathe West (8) 
8. Maize (NR)
9. Olathe North (6)
10. Garden City (5)

Class 5A 
1. St. Thomas Aquinas (1)
2. St. James Academy (2)
3. Maize South (3)
4. Bishop Carroll (4)
5. Lansing (5)
6. Kapaun Mt. Carmel (7)
7. Great Bend (6)
8. Andover (8)
9. De Soto (9)
10. Blue Valley SW (10)

Class 4A
1. Bishop Miege (1)
2. Hayden (2)
3. Clay Center (3)
4. Andale (4)
5. Eudora (5)
6. McPherson (9)
7. Circle (6)
8. Paola (7)
9. Louisburg (8)
10. Wellington (10)

Class 3A
1. Beloit (1)
2. Holton (3)
3. Riley County (2)
4. Hesston (5)
5. Cheney (4)
6. Silver Lake (6)
7. Halstead (7)
8. Hoisington (9)
9. Royal Valley (8)
10. Lakin (NR)

Class 2A
1. Ellinwood (1)
2. St. Mary’s Colgan (3)
3. Jefferson County North (2)
4. Inman (4)
5. Moundridge (6)
6. TMP-Marian (5)
7. Mission Valley (10)
8. Wabaunsee (5 in 1A, D1)
9. Conway Springs (9)
10. Valley Heights (NR)

Class 1A, Division I
1. Centralia 20-0 (1)
2. Linn (1 in 1A, D)
3. Goessel (2)
4. Little River (3)
5. South Gray (4)
6. Quinter (6)
7. Randolph-Blue Valley (8 in 1A, D2)
8. Burden Central (7)
9. St. John-Hudson (8)
10. Decatur Community (9)

Class 1A, Division II
1. Hanover (2)
2. Ingalls (3)
3. Axtell (4)
4. Argonia (6)
5. Cheylin (5)
6. Marais des Cygnes Valley (9)
7. Greeley County (10 in 1A, D1)
8. Wheatland-Grinnell (NR)
9. Hutchinson Central Christian (10)
10. Golden Plains (NR)

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