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Oct 07, 2026

🏐 Area teams highlighted in latest KVA volleyball rankings

Posted Oct 07, 2026 2:36 PM
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Several area teams remain among the state’s best in the latest Kansas Volleyball Association rankings released Wednesday.

Hesston leads the area contingent, moving up one spot to No. 3 in Class 3A with a 21-3 record. Halstead remains No. 7 in the same classification at 23-4.

Class 2A features two area teams in the top five. Moundridge moved up one spot to No. 4 with a 28-4 record, while Inman slipped one position to No. 5 at 23-7.

McPherson is ranked No. 7 in Class 4A with a 15-6 record, down one spot from last week.

Little River remains No. 4 in Class 1A Division I at 22-5, while Hutchinson-Central Christian moved up one spot to No. 8 in Class 1A Division II with a 17-8 record. 

The Week 5 rankings reflect the 2026-27 KSHSAA classifications and information submitted through Monday.

KVA Week 5 Rankings

Class 6A

  1. Mill Valley (25-0)
  2. Blue Valley West (21-4)
  3. Blue Valley (17-6)
  4. Manhattan (19-7)
  5. Olathe West (16-5)
  6. Lawrence Free State (17-4)
  7. Gardner-Edgerton (17-3)
  8. Maize (22-5)
  9. Olathe North (17-10)
  10. Garden City (17-6)

Class 5A

  1. St. Thomas Aquinas (24-4)
  2. St. James Academy (19-6)
  3. Maize South (21-7)
  4. Bishop Carroll (19-4)
  5. Lansing (22-7)
  6. Great Bend (22-3)
  7. Andover (18-5)
  8. Basehor-Linwood (14-7)
  9. Shawnee Heights (15-10)
  10. De Soto (14-8) 

Class 4A

  1. Bishop Miege (15-5)
  2. Hayden (16-7)
  3. Clay Center (28-4)
  4. Andale (21-5)
  5. Eudora (21-7)
  6. Paola (22-4)
  7. McPherson (15-6)
  8. Circle (21-4)
  9. Wellington (16-8)
  10. Rock Creek (16-12)

Class 3A

  1. Beloit (28-3)
  2. Riley County (27-6)
  3. Hesston (21-3)
  4. Holton (22-7)
  5. Cheney (28-3)
  6. Silver Lake (24-6)
  7. Halstead (23-4)
  8. Hoisington (24-5)
  9. Royal Valley (24-8)
  10. Lakin (23-1)

Class 2A

  1. Ellinwood (26-0)
  2. Jefferson County North (26-2)
  3. St. Mary’s Colgan (23-6)
  4. Moundridge (28-4)
  5. Inman (23-7)
  6. Thomas More Prep-Marian (19-9)
  7. Wabaunsee (21-7)
  8. Mission Valley (20-8)
  9. Conway Springs (19-5)
  10. Oakley (16-6)

Class 1A Division I

  1. Centralia (30-0)
  2. Linn (26-0)
  3. Goessel (25-2)
  4. Little River (22-5)
  5. South Gray (24-1)
  6. Randolph-Blue Valley (22-5)
  7. Quinter (19-6)
  8. Decatur Community (19-5)
  9. Burden-Central (22-4)
  10. Bishop Seabury Academy (18-9)

Class 1A Division II

  1. Hanover (22-5)
  2. Ingalls (24-3)
  3. Argonia (22-4)
  4. Cheylin (20-7)
  5. Axtell (16-13)
  6. Marais des Cygnes Valley (22-6)
  7. Greeley County (14-7)
  8. Hutchinson-Central Christian (17-8)
  9. Wheatland-Grinnell (14-11)
  10. Dighton (14-8)