During warm-ups Topeka High's soccer team wears t-shirts for teammate Carson Bradn;ey's cancer fight.

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2025 All-City girls tennis team.

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Washburn University's freshman Leah Henke has had 9 goals in 13 games.

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Brody Anderson, Seaman senior, & his teammates took 2nd at UKC meet in KCK.

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Washburn Rural senior Dylan Willingham (middle) is Rural's career scoring leader.

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Cair Paravel junior Madilyn Poole took 3rd place in Class 3A-1A state singles.

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Silver Lake volleyball has Class 3A's #1 ranking 7 straight weeks.

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Six Shawnee County schools earned Top 10 spots in the Kansas Volleyball Association's preseason state rankings released Wednesday.

Hayden tops the county contingent with a No. 2 ranking in Class 4A while perennial state contender Washburn Rural holds down the No. 5 spot in 6A.

HaydenVB2024substatechampsHayden, which won a Class 4A sub-state title before posting a third-place state finish, is ranked No. 2 in Class 4A in the KVA Preseason State Rankings. [File photo/TSN]

Seaman and Shawnee Heights are ranked No. 8 and 9, respectively, in 5A while Silver Lake is ranked No. 8 in 3A and Rossville is ranked No. 10 in 2A.

Seaman was the 5A runnerup last season while Hayden finished third in 4A and Washburn Rural was a state qualifier in 6A.

Current classifications for the rankings are based on enrollments from the 2024-25 school year.

The rankings will be adjusted when the updated KSHSAA classifications are released at the end of September. 

Kansas Volleyball Association Preseason Rankings

CLASS 6A

1. Mill Valley

2. Blue Valley West

3. Olathe West

4. Blue Valley North

5. Washburn Rural

6. Gardner-Edgerton

7. Manhattan

8. Olathe North

9. Wichita Northwest

10. Olathe South

CLASS 5A

1. St. Thomas Aquinas

2. Blue Valley Southwest

3. St. James Academy

4. Maize South

5. Kapaun Mt. Carmel

6. Lansing

7. Bishop Carroll

8. Seaman

9. Shawnee Heights

10. Great Bend

CLASS 4A

1. Bishop Miege

2. Hayden

3. Rock Creek

4. Clay Center

5. McPherson

6. Andale

7. Eudora

8. Concordia

9. Holton

10. Buhler

CLASS 3A

1. Halstead

2. Nemaha Central

3. Hoisington

4. Beloit

5. Neodesha

6. Royal Valley

7. Girard

8. Silver Lake

9. Frontenac

10. Riverton

CLASS 2A

1. Ellinwood

2. Valley Heights

3. Inman

4. Sedgwick

5. Maranatha Christian

6. Oakley

7. Wichita-Central Christian Academy

8. Hillsboro

9. Doniphan West

10. Rossville

CLASS 1A Division I

1. Little River

2. Centralia

3. Clifton-Clyde

4. Rock Hills

5. Goessel

6. South Gray

7. Spearville

8. Pretty Prairie

9. Greeley County

10. Rawlins County

CLASS 1A Division II

1. Hanover

2. Ingalls

3. Marais des Cygnes Valley

4. Lebo

5. Wheatland-Grinnell

6. Argonia

7. Attica

8. Cheylin

9. Linn

10. Dighton

 

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