March 6, 2020 – By NJP

We have put together our cross-reference analysis of current NJ high schools players who play Club Volleyball. We have presented this report to give the NJ Volleyball community an idea of how many club players have the potential of being on school team rosters for the upcoming season.

A couple of items to note. Where you see a high school in bold, this school does not currently have a volleyball program for boys. Also note that we have a number of unidentified high schools on the bottom of this report and could use the NJ volleyball community’s help to identify these players schools to complete our database.

We have 410 club players listed. 38 of those players (8%) have not had their HS identified. With 149 school teams in 2019 moving to 160 in 2020, the amount of club players per team is roughly 2.5 per team on average. But as you can see, only 71 high school teams have a club player meaning almost 90 do not. And the average calculation is thrown off by teams like SPF and other high count teams.

Kudos to these leading teams for establishing feeder programs that cultivate younger players to get involved in volleyball. Also note that three of the four top teams (BR, HC, and Old Bridge) have school populations over 2,000 students. These teams are always senior rich with much easier replenishment of talent each campaign compared to schools with enrollment under 1,100.

Some of the top schools as far as club player volume goes are as follows:

Pretty amazing numbers for SPF, Bridgewater Raritan, Hunterdon Central, and Old Bridge who can all fill an entire roster with club players. The mix of players will be important as to how many are playing on top clubs, age levels, skill levels, etc…

We did some additional analysis of upperclassman club players and SPF lead the way with 13, Hunterdon Central had 12, and BR had 11. Some other top teams were Old Bridge and Williamstown with 9, Ridge and Southern with 8, & CBA and Rancocas Valley with 7.

Upperclassman at the top level team of each club were as follows: SPF-12, Hunterdon Central-11, Southern-8, Ridge-7, WWPS-6, Fair Lawn, Passaic, Rancocas Valley and St. Joe’s Metuchen with 5, Hillsborough and Westfield with 4, and 9 teams with 3 including BR, St. Peter’s, East Brunswick, Union, Williamstown, Eastern, Gloucester Tech, Kinsway and Piscataway.

Here is the detailed breakout by individual and by team:

Again, if any members of the NJ Volleyball community can help us identify unknown high schools for these club players, (including the players themselves) please forward input or feedback to njpowerranking@gmail.com.