Figure it is about time to start our thread. I will open with the results from the first Summer tournament at Nicolet. Here are the final finishes for the tournament on the 7th.

1. New Berlin
2. Marquette (Heinen)
3. Waukesha West
4. Tosa East
5. Marquette (Schneck)
6. Kaukauna
7t. Nicolet
7t. Shorewood
9. Tosa West
10. Burlington
11t. Racine Park
11t. Brookfield Central

haha ill be the first one to call my predictions publicly on here,
new berlin over marquette at state 2009

Any predictions on the top 10 in state for next year?

Top Ten Teams in my mind would be New Berlin, Marquette, Tosa East, Waukesha West, Nicolet, Middleton, Catholic Memorial, Kaukauna, Kettle Moraine, and westosha central.

Here is the 2009 State Bracket

1. Marquette
2. CMH
3. Nicolet
4. New Berlin Eisenhower/West
5. Waukesha West
6. Kettle Moraine
7. Westosha Central
8. Tosa East
9. Arrowhead (new coach there will turn the program around...although they did graduate 11 seniors last year)
10. Shorewood (just because I can't think of any other and a Kevin Gem team will always be good by the end of the year)

On another note, they need to just start seeding the playoffs. At least the top 2 seeds in each sectional (so the top 16 teams in the state). The sectionals are so flawed. Some are stacked, others are awful. Should have the top 8 teams at State, but that does not happen unfortunately.

The WIAA will never let that happen. They only care about regional representation not quality of competition. People can complain about sectionals all they want but they are never going to change. Just allowing them to actually seed the sectionals instead of the old way of having assignments predetermined was a huge deal.

Top Conference contenders in no order
GMC
Marquette
Nicolet
Tosa East

Classic 8
Kettle Moraine
Catholic Memoria
Waukesha Westl

Big 8
Middleton

FVA
Kaukauna
Kimberly
Appleton North

Southeast
Central of Westosha of Wisconsin of United State of America aka the fighting Jimmy's
Park
Burlington

Woodland
New Berlin
Shorewood

I think we should do a top players list because a lot of talent was graduated and I'm curious to see who everybody thinks is the top couple at each position. Anybody up for starting?

1. Marquette
2. New Berlin
3. CMH
4. Waukesha West
5. Kettle Morraine
6. Kaukauna
7. Nicolet
8. Arrowhead
9. Westosha Central
10. Tosa East

HM: Middleton, Shorewood, Appleton North, Kimberly, Racine Park.

Here is one of last years list with all the seniors removed. I added Schneck to the setters list and put Hauser down on the middles list as well, but since I have graduated, I don't think I would know who else to add so I'll leave that up to you guys.

OH
2. Dejno
8. Klingspahn

MB
Hauser

S
1. Heinen
5. Chladek
6. Toli
Schneck


RS
1. Owen (was he a senior last year?)
2. Machi
3. Hauser
5. O' Connell

Libero
1. Casper
2. Hardwick
3. Jerominski
5. Middletons libero (what grade was he in?)

Why not?

Outside Hitters
1. Jeremy Dejno
2. Matt Klingspohn
3. Trevor Navatni
4. Sean Foley
5. Jimmy (Westosha Central)
6. Peter Hutz

Right Sides
1. Matt Machi
2. Kyle O' Connell
3. Nick Yannett (won't stay in the middle at Shorewood)

Setters
1. Peter Heinen
2. Mike Shneck
3. Dayton Erickson
4. Toli

Middle Blockers
1. Jack Hauser (spelling?)
2. Greg Duma (if he stays at MB for KM)
3. Buehler (spelling and first name? from Ike)
4. MB from Waukesha West (don't know the name)

Liberos
1. Dan Casper
2. Dan Simon
3. Taylor Jerominski (spelling?)
4. Dylan Hardwick (at least I believe that is his name)

Just a start, I'm sure I left out a bunch of people, mostly know kids who are playing club at this point, and mostly from North Shore, Southwest, and West Allis. Don't know much about teams outside of Southeastern Wisconsin either.

Horlick should be better than Park this year and repeat their state trip from last year from a very weak sectional.

The Middle Blocker from Waukesha West is Ryan Soldberg.

I think the Appleton team with the Mader brother should be good this year. I think they go to Appleton East.

The Mader brothers are big and powerful (especially the older one) but they do not have a supporting cast at East, I believe they are losing their big outside hitter and setter and much more.

The FVA teams that will have a chance are ONCE AGAIN Kimberly, Kaukauna (clear favorite), and Appleton North. Same as usual.

Here's my list...probably left some people out.

OH
Dejno
Klingspahn
Schultz
Owen - i think he plays OH
Novotny
Hutz
Kazmarek

MB

Hauser
Solberg
Bonis
Spence
Buehler

S

Heinen
Schneck
Toli
Erickson

RS

O'Connell
Machi

L

Simon
Casper
Hardwick
Middleton's libero
Libero from burlington...never seen him but he and Simon were the only two liberos to make All State so I'll put him here.

Top Teams- New Berlin, Marquette, Nicolet, Middleton, Wauk West, Tosa East, CMH - all the teams I see worth noting...prove me wrong.

Anybody have any upcoming open gyms? When's the next summer league tournament (guessing after JOs).

Thanks to Brad for setting those up. Gives everybody a little sneak preview of what's to come in the high school season and gets the excitement going into the season.

For woodland you are forgetting the team that has won it 6 years in a row i understand and i believe that New Berlin will be at top but to not metion the team that has been confrence champs 6 times in a row

you don't have to call out brad on this one, maybe he just forgot...or maybe in his opinion they won't be a contender this year!

instead of being sarcastic about it, you could just state that you BELIEVE that Tosa West should be on the list.


State finals will be a good one this year though! A MUHS, New Berlin match-up will be fun to watch no matter how young or old the season is.

For OH's, Trevor Metz and Dan Thew (both of MUHS) should definitely be on this list. There are obv. many goodOH's, but I would for sure say that both these guys will be real solid at OH this season...

yeah thew and metz should be on the list
they will probably be the two starting OH's for MUHS in 2009

I did partially forgot about Tosa West Mr. Bruss I appologize. Tosa should battle with Shorewood for 2nd in the Woodland.

and what a battle that will be...

Anyways to go off what people were saying about thew and metz. If marquette wants to win another championship they will start Heinen and Hutz at OH and have Schneck set.

That's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard

Agreed. Especially since Heinen is one of the best Rightside blockers in the state. His block would be very much missed for Marquette on the rightside.

As for my thoughts on this season. I think it will be a season long battle between Marquette and New Berlin. Both of very talented players. New Berlin is stronger on the outside but I feel Marquette is more solid all they way around. Although Marquette lost 9 seniors last year. They return 7 players who have a ton of volleyball experience. New Berlin returns their entire starting lineup if I am not correct. What people look past in New Berlin, I think, is a strong middle option as well in Beeler/Olson. They are a great combo to throw off the other team when Dejno is in the backrow. These two teams will have very competitive matches through the year.

CMH, Tosa East, Nicolet, and Waukesha West are contenders as well with each possessing some very good club players.

yeah that'd be great to have a (most likely) D1-bound setter play OH his senior season...:-)

We have a really good middle named matt fevior... He played with us at northshore for the 2nd half of our season last year... I think he will probably get hm all state

Also

Brett kaczmarek is really good.. He is a outside from Bradford and he just jumps out of the gym and swings hard

anyone in the doubles tourney this weekend at bradford?

i doubt many guys will be there, because we're leaving for CA on thursday.....

ooo for setters don't forget chris pokrzywa from new berlin


and courtney pokrzywa for best looking sister in the state. wow

hahahahaha I laughed when I saw this brad...

"dude sublime bro its sooo good dude just listen to it seriously"

1. Marquette- despite losing 9 or 10 seniors they're still number 1 until someone can beat them, still have a ton of talent
2. New Berlin- KING DEJNO
3. Nicolet- they took 2nd at state last year when few probably thought they would, still have a lot of talent behind toli, I would expect to see them in the state tourney again
4. Middleton- always a solid team, they'll be at state again unless jimmy's people can stop them
5. Waukesha West- a solid group of players all around, soldberg is a force in the middle
the rest of the top 10 is a toss up I have no idea what the FVA teams are gonna be like and a lot of the teams in the milwaukee area lost a good amount of seniors we'll just have to see when the racine tourney comes around.

Results from 2nd summer tournament

1. New Berlin
2. Middleton
3. Kaukauna
3. Marquette
5. Nicolet
6. Franklin
7. Mukwonago
7. Tosa West
9. Burlington
10. Kimberly
11. Brookfield Central

Not too surprising. Seems as if the Fox Valley's Kaukauna may have a shot this year at state ... or is that going too far?

He is a good setter but what D1 school?????????? Loyola has 75 setters on thier roster including Hutz who is getting money to ride the pine, brought in a big time cali setter and smalzer to set from illinois. I just dont know where he would go and have a legit chance to play D3 seems like the best fit for him which is still really good.

Listen i hope he plays D1 ball and does well. I dont think he will ever go to northridge and play. As for ohio state maybe, but the y have a good young setter now who is taller and Ohio state is starting to get big time california recruits to come thier. I wish him the best I just dont see him actuall playing (on the court/starting) D1 ball. nothing is wrong with that just what i think.

yeah...I never even mentioned Loyola as an option, as I realize they have a lot of setters...but he for sure has a chance to play at a D1 school

HAHA yes

no debate there

I thought I would summerize the Wisconsin finishes from JOs:

18s - Northshore wins the Bronze (13th overall) Considering the results of their opening day pool, a great job to come back and win the Bronze. Southwest finished 31st. Looking at the scores, they had some close matches, if only they could have pulled-out 2 or 3 of those...

17s - Lightning finished tied for 5th overall. Great job. Northshore, despite only receiving an at large bid, finishes 19th, lost in the 1st round of Bronze.

16s - Northshore wins the Bronze (13th overall), another great job. Lightning finished in 30th.

15s - Lightning wins the Silver (5th overall) and Northshore finished tied for 7th. Northshore looks like they had a 1 game playoff to get to the Gold bracket, but lost 29-27. Due to lack of teams in this age group, there was only a 4-team Gold and Silver bracket, so really, when was the last time Wis. had 2 teams in the Gold. I think either of these teams can win a National Championship, perhaps playing each other for it.

14s - Northshore finishes 11th, lost in the 1st round of Bronze. I was disappointed for them, because I thought they had a chance to be in the Gold.

I'll add in my own understanding. For 18s the seedings were awful. There is no way OCVC was the 24 best team in the tournament, and then to have a solid 2 seed in APV and a very underrated Surf City team all in the NSMVC pool was pretty disappointing. NSMVC had a chance to take 1st had they won their last pool play match on day one, but AVP was solid and they were also playing against the reffing team. If AVP won Surf City would take 3rd in the pool, keeping them alive to move into gold contention, but if NSMVC won they would take 4th, dropping them out of gold contention, and they were the reffing team. There were some very, very questionable calls and NSMVC just couldn't pull through. For them to stay motivated enough to still take 13th was a pretty big accomplishment, as they weren't able to meet expectations but still made it a respectable tournament. Kind of disappointing watching Riptides win the National Championship after NSMVC beat them in So Cal.

For 17s Lightning had a great showing. They lost to Balboa Bay on day 3 and then lost in 3 in the Gold quarterfinals. I believe they had a 21-17 (?) lead in the game they lost and blew it and then were up 11-9 game 3 and lost 15-11(?). Somewhat disappointing to go down like that but a great showing. NSMVC goes in ranked 33 and takes 17 (I believe they lost 1st round of Bronze which would make them tied for 17 with 3 other teams). Again very solid all things considered.

For 16s NSMVC got stuck with SCVC and Balboa Bay in their day 2 pool, the 2 best teams in the Nation for that age group. Played well both first games and fell apart in the 2nd games. Didn't drop a match after that. Would have been fun to see what they could have done had SCVC not been upset on day 1 and fallen into their pool. Lightning fell apart on day 3.

For 15s both NSMVC and Lightning had great showings but both had their chances on day 3. Lightning was up 23-17 in game 2 against the Mets (PR team) and lost that game, and then lost the 3rd game. They win that game and they're in gold. NSMVC lost to Balboa Bay, who lost to Piterres, who NSMVC beat. Balboa Bay won tie breaker of games and, after dominating Piterres in 2, had to play a 1 game playoff to 25 to get into gold. NSMVC was leading the whole game by 3-4 points, and just couldn't close the deal. If 1 or 2 players switch over 1 way or the other they win JOs easily..

For 14s I didn't see much but there are just too many PR teams that dominate that age group.

anybody know about any super freshmen coming in this year? anyone who can make a difference on varsity?

Most of the NSMVC 14s players are going to MUHS so probably not there. Zach from that team will start on WFB's varsity team. 1 of the OHs might play varsity at Pius.

Nick Wildes, setter from the NS 14's has a chance to make the varsity squad this year at Waukesha West. Wouldnt see much court time, but he's got a chance to be a spot server and back up setter.

No one cares about Wisconsin volleyball

17th**

Sorry, I miss read the final standings chart. Well 17th is even a better job than 19th!

Does anyone know what teams are going to be at the next summer league volleyball tournament at Nicolet this upcoming sunday?

Nicolet
Franklin
Brookfield Cent
Burlington
Central
Kimberly
Catholic Memorial
Kaukauna
Tosa West
New Berlin
Marquette
Waukesha West
Tosa East
Middleton
Mukwonago

Still an opening for 1 more team but today is the final registration day

are you serious?