August 2, 2021 - By NJP (Cover photo courtesy Scott Faytok) The Paul VI Eagles are coming off an outstanding Spring campaign that saw them finish 11-2 and earned a South Non-Public A Sectional title. The Eagles

August 1, 2021 - By NJP Here is some of the data that drove our Pre-season Ranking analysis...

August 1, 2021 - By NJP It's all in the numbers... math formula's, data algorithm's, and lot's of number crunching. But the NJ Girl's High School Volleyball preseason rankings are finally calculated and available for viewing below. In the next couple

July 29, 2021 - By Josh Wilets The Mendham girls volleyball team had yet another memorable season, finishing the spring 2021 slate with a 12-4 record. This incredible squad battled all season in the toughest division in the NJAC,

July 29, 2021 - By NJP With the Girl's high school season start 40 days away, we thought we would try to get caught up on some of the items related to the high school season. We are on unprecedented grounds

July 29, 2021 – By NJP Mia and Nick Gonzales It is always refreshing to see a freshman hit the high school scene and make a major contribution to their school’s success. There were a handful of freshman student athlete’s for volleyball

July 27, 2021 - By NJP As we prepare for the upcoming girl's high school season, NJP has been diligently updating its database of girls high school players for both their school team and their club teams. Our pre-season

July 25, 2021 - By NJP High School girls in New Jersey continue to get amazing opportunities to continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level for volleyball. NJP continues to add players to its database who have elected

July 24, 2021 - By NJP The Hudson Catholic Hawks continued their domination of Hudson County in the Spring and positioned themselves to possibly become the #1 team in the state by earning a showdown with the Immaculate Heart Blue Eagles

July 19, 2021 - By NJP Gloucester Tech (GCIT) has a high school volleyball team that has had continued success in the Tri-County conference. We expect the Cheetah's to have another strong season this Fall powered by three seniors,

July 18, 2021 - By NJP As you look back on the history of Union City girls' volleyball, it is easy to see the positive impact that Nathaly Flores has had on the Soaring Eagles Program. Prior to her

July 18, 2021 - By Josh Wilets Last year, the Morris Hills girls volleyball team had an up-and-down season, ultimately ending with a defeat in the first round of the NJSIAA North 1, Group 3 tournament. Senior setter/outside hitter Ryan Grow will

July 17, 2021 - By NJP For the last few years, Bridgewater Raritan has found it hard to get back to the glory they saw during the 2016-2017 season where they finished 22-7. They were 22-45 over the next

July 15, 2021 - By NJP Maria Nolan's volleyball program at IHA goes far beyond skill development. After 15 straight sectional titles, the formula for success is deeper than x's and o's on a chalkboard or drills in the

July 14, 2021 - By NJP When Mary Huegel took the floor for Colts Neck High School last Spring, she was looking to ignite a change. Not just a change in the uncertain COVID driven world, but a change for

July 11, 2021 - By NJP (Photo's credit - John Jones and Scott Faytok) Hailea Krause has been waiting for this opportunity since fifth grade. After falling in love with the game of volleyball at such an early age, the

July 9, 2021 - By NJP Roxbury is coming off an outstanding season in the shortened Spring session. The Gaels finished at 10-3 overall, losing two games to Sectional champs Sparta and to Tenafly in the Section 1 Group 3 Quarterfinals.

(1,325 teams, 5 from NJ) July 5, 2021 - By NJP Having "any" experience at a Junior National Volleyball tournament is a situation to be revered. These are typically massive tournaments with the best of the best in the country participating. In

June 19, 2021 - By Josh Wilets Division Champions American - Sparta Freedom - Jefferson Independence - Mountain Lakes Liberty - Morris Catholic National - Morris Knolls Which NJAC Teams Won State Tournament Brackets? North, Section 1 - Group 2: Sparta North, Section 2 - Group 2: Hackettstown (co-winner) North,

June 8, 2021 - By Josh Wilets On Tuesday, Sparta varsity volleyball middle-hitter Daniella Abbastante became the second player this season to commit to play collegiate volleyball. Abbastante, or ‘Abs’ as her teammates would call her, has decided to take her talents

May 16, 2021 - By NJP We will be conducting our annual "NJP Clip of the Year" contest so get your best clips ready... Here are the rules... Must be from a high school game... no club our tournament clips. There will be two

April 25, 2021 - By NJP With the NJ Girls High School Volleyball season ending this past Tuesday, NJP wanted to give some additional analytics to the players and coaches as well as our year-end awards. It was a

April 22, 2021 - By NJP What an amazing season. And I am sure there will be a lot of debate about final rankings. We applied all of year-end formulas to the rating algorithm and have finalized our ratings

April 19, 2021 - By NJP Immaculate Heart is now ready to finish their quest for a 14th consecutive state sectional title, only one game stands in their way. But this season has progressed so different than usual IHA

April 18, 2021 - By NJP With less than 24 hours before Magic Monday's State Sectional Final games, NJP is taking a quadruple look at 4 key matchups that will influence Top 25 final ranking. New Jersey's number 1 ranked

April 18, 2021 - By Josh Wilets Imagine this: a team finishes 4-7, gets a crack at postseason play, defeats Montclair, then both No.1 Bergen Tech and No.5 Livingston—both on the road. Well, if you had made those predictions, you win

April 18, 2021 - By NJP This is a true Marquis match-up for the state sectional playoffs as undefeated Bogota takes on undefeated Midland Park. One of these teams will finish the year with a perfect record. Bogota has not lost a

April 16, 2021 - By NJP Despite the shortened schedule, Kearny put together a very succesful campaign for the Girl's Spring volleyball season. The Kardinals took on Hudson County and despite losing to Hudson Catholic, the perennial top 10 program in

April 15, 2021 - By Josh Wilets Wednesday afternoon, the Randolph girls varsity volleyball team pulled off a monumental upset in the second round of the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group 4 playoffs. Randolph was resilient and defeated top-seeded Bergen

April 13, 2021 - By NJP Westfield has had a truly amazing season thus far and have a solid group of talented student athletes who take their volleyball very seriously. They have strung together ten wins in a row,

April 12, 2021 - By NJP We will be tracking the NJP Predictor picks through our Bracketology page as we make selections for every playoff game for the Spring 20 sectionals. Each grid relays the game in the bracket as well

April 11, 2021 - By NJP We have updated our playoff and seed analysis for the new ranking that was run for today, Sunday, April 11th. The grid includes updated rankings, average ratings per group, average power points per group, projected

April 11, 2021 – By NJP Here are the updated NJP team rankings for NJ high school girls volleyball for Sunday, April 11, 2021. OVERALL CONFERENCE DIVISION GROUP/SECTION

April 11, 2021 - By NJP We hope everyone has had some fun with our game selections each night. This has been a season like no other and we found it to be an interesting way to introduce our

April 10, 2021 - By Josh Wilets With the 2021 Spring girls volleyball regular season winding to a close, teams eligible for postseason play will be ramping up the energy for the NJSIAA state playoff tournaments. Here are where all the

SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... updated nightly... BOYS PRESEASON RANKING Boys are starting games on April 16th... 4/4 RANKING LINK Updated rankings for 4/4 for NJ HS Girls... Girls State Playoff Seed Analysis from NJP All individual Group

April 9, 2021 - By NJP The NPSB bracket is the lowest rated bracket in the grid. Mother Seton is a top 30 team and seven rating points better than any other team in the grid. This is the most one-sided

April 9, 2021 - By NJP The NPSA is an awesome bracket with potential to get to the semi's at every seed. 9 teams make up the grid with five teams from the top 45. We have some disparity with the

April 9, 2021 - By NJP NPNB is mostly dominated by the top two teams in the bracket. Morris Catholic and MKA are the #1 and #2 seeds as well as the NJP two top rated teams. NJP has a large

April 9, 2021 - By NJP The North Non-Public A contains the dominant Immaculate Heart Academy as they go for their 14th straight sectional title. Despite only 6 teams in the grid, Immaculate will have two difficult games on their

April 9, 2021 - By NJP SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... updated nightly... Nice PODCAST with legend Pat Longo, Head Volleyball Coach at Bayonne HS for both girls and boys BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS Updated college commitments

April 9, 2021 - By NJP This is a super powerful grid with some of the best and highest ranked public teams in the state. NJP thought the inevitable rematch of Southern and Williamstown would make up the finals. But

April 9, 2021 - By NJP SG3 will be an entertaining and competitive tournament with 7 strong teams having solid chances to reach the semi's. Shawnee has had a brilliant year this far and are included in the NJP top 25.

April 9, 2021 - By NJP SG2 has 13 teams and one team in particulat to watch from the lower seeds. Barnegat is the third highest NJP rated team but received the #9 seed. They are capable of beating any

April 9, 2021 - By NJP Ten teams make up SG1 in the small school match-up of South Jersey. Highland Park gets the number one seed inching out Collingswood by one-half of a Power Point. NJP has Delaware Valley

April 9, 2021 - By NJP This is an awesome grid and will provide fun games to watch throughout the entire grid. Hunterdon Central has had one of those perfect seasons up until their last game against North Hunterdon. It will

April 9, 2021 - By NJP Fourteen teams make up the CG3 with three teams in the NJP top 100 overall in NJ. SPF is the #1 seed and #1 rated NJP rated team. They continue to be on a roll

April 9, 2021 - By NJP CG2's group of ten is a competitive grid. Wall took the #1 seed at 9-2. NJP has a solid favored team here in #5 seed Governor Livingston. GL is 5-1 and was a

April 9, 2021 - By NJP CG1 is one of the smallest group at just 7 teams, it is an absolutely wide open event that truly any team can win. Dayton is the number 1 seed. NJP projects Roselle Park

April 9, 2021 - By NJP This is another grid, N2G4, that is skewed heavily in favor of the top 2 teams. Both Northern Hunterdon and Westfield are top 25 teams. They have too much firepower for other teams in the

April 9, 2021 - By NJP N2G3 has one of the largest groups at 15. NJP see's three teams competing at the top level in this grid. NJP has Mendham as the highest rated team. They received a #3

April 9, 2021 - By NJP N2G2 is a small group of 11 with 4 top 100 teams. Madison received the number 1 seed as well as the best NJP rating and ranking in the group. They have a 8-3 record

April 9, 2021 - By NJP N1G1 is a wide open group of 14 with 8 teams we think can compete for top honors. The top seed Verona has shown some signs of weakening losing to Livingston this week. They

April 8, 2021 - By NJP N1G4 are the larger schools in the North 1 grid. Despite the bigger populations, the average strength here is much less than N1G3 or N1G2. Bergen Tech garners the number 1 seed and sports a

April 8, 2021 - By NJP N1G3 is a dirty dozen and features the NJP #1 ranked team in Northern Highland. The Highlanders have been riding high since defeating Immaculate Heart on April Fool's Day. One of the most

April 8, 2021 - By NJP N1G2 is such a solid group with their top 6 teams with an average rating of 23.1. It has three top 20 teams and 8 in the top 100. #4 Demarest got the

April 8, 2021 - By NJP Here are the state playoff seeds by Section and Group. NJP has presented our ranking and rating system in comparison to the seed selections. BLUE denotes areas where the seed is higher than

April 8, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... updated nightly... Nice PODCAST with legend Pat Longo, Head Volleyball Coach at Bayonne HS for both girls and boys BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS

April 7, 2021 - By NJP The typical attributes of the really great high school volleyball teams is having a really dominant middle who can control the game on both sides whether offense or defense. We watched Anna Morris at Immaculate

April 7, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: College Dlll Update... TODAY!!! Wednesday, April 7th is CVC Tournament semi-final Day Tune in for #11 Kean Cougars at #9 Juniata 5PM https://landmarknetwork.tv/juniata/ #14 Rutgers Newark Scarlet Raiders @ #12

April 6, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... Rematch Day: JP Stevens vs East Brunswick... Simi Carlsen vs. Hailey Benesz BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS Updated college commitments for NJ HS

April 4, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS Updated college commitments for NJ HS boys... BOYS PRESEASON RANKING Boys are starting games on April 16th... GIRLS

April 4, 2021 – By NJP Here are the updated NJP team rankings for NJ high school girls volleyball for Sunday, April 4, 2021. OVERALL CONFERENCE DIVISION GROUP/SECTION

April 4, 2021 - By NJP Whenever you have a junior leading your team in three separate statistical categories, you know you are looking at a special player. Central Regional's Jenna Czajkowski falls into this category. Jenna is a

April 3, 2021 - By Josh Wilets (Photos courtesy of Josh Wilets) This past week has featured some of the biggest storylines all season when it comes to girls varsity volleyball in the NJAC. Major Stat Leaders Kills o   MacKenzie Wiggins (116) – Sparta Assists o   Riley O’Hagan

April 3, 2021 - By NJP So this is what the Girls High School Volleyball season looked like over the past few days... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQxA9mxg54w Since April 1, we have felt the wind in our face, the curves and twists of a pandemic year

April 3, 2021 - By NJP (Photos courtesy of Kevin Kish) The Jefferson Falcons maintain their trend of continued improvement over the last four seasons. They just keep getting better and better as each year goes by. Last seasons 19-8 record

April 1, 2021 - By NJP The thought that Immaculate Heart could lose a game to a NJ team for just the second time in three years seemed unlikely, especially on April Fool's Day. But Northern Highlands was just too much

April 1, 2021 - By NJP YTD Game Predictor at 86%. Boys Season starts today with tryouts... Games in two weeks. Here is the Boys Preseason ranking link https://njpowerranking.com/2021/01/31/full-preseason-nj-boys-high-school-volleyball-ratings-and-rankings/ Who is NJP? Link at https://njpowerranking.com/2021/04/01/intro-to-ownership-meet-gary-at-njp/ Latest NJ High School Girls RANKING at https://njpowerranking.com/girls-high-school-ranking-1-march-28-2021-overall/ CVC

March 31, 2021 - By NJP The Wednesday schedule has some special match-ups for the NJ Volleyball community to enjoy. Here is what is "on the slate" in the state... PREMIER MATCH-UPS #8 HUDSON CATHOLIC AT #4 WILLIAMSTOWN Hudson Catholic has had a steady

March 31, 2021 - By NJP Here is a current Predictor summary update for the season: Average Power Point per game analysis at https://njpowerranking.com/2021/03/28/power-points-per-game-analysis/ Snipes added daily at www.njpowerranking.com/snipes/ Girls College commitments at https://njpowerranking.com/college-commitments-girls/ Boys College commitments at https://njpowerranking.com/home/news-posts-2/college-commitments/ More NJP "Faces" of NJ Volleyball

March 30, 2021 - By NJP It's always refreshing to find a new freshman face emmerge on to the NJ high school volleyball scene that can make an impact on their high school team. It's so hard for freshman to even

March 30, 2021 - By NJP Here is a current Predictor summary update for the season: Snipes added daily at www.njpowerranking.com/snipes/ Girls College commitments at https://njpowerranking.com/college-commitments-girls/ Boys College commitments at https://njpowerranking.com/home/news-posts-2/college-commitments/ More NJP "Faces" of NJ Volleyball at https://njpowerranking.com/njp-faces/ Game Day videos at https://njpowerranking.com/game-day-videos/ Starting to

March 29, 2021 - By NJP Here is a current Predictor summary update for the season: Snipes added daily at www.njpowerranking.com/snipes/ Boys College commitments at https://njpowerranking.com/home/news-posts-2/college-commitments/ More NJP "Faces" of NJ Volleyball at https://njpowerranking.com/njp-faces/ Girls College commitments at https://njpowerranking.com/college-commitments-girls/ Game Day videos at https://njpowerranking.com/game-day-videos/ Starting to

March 28, 2021 - By NJP As we were putting together our ranking analysis today, it was quite apparent what the effect of the pandemic has been on the schedule for high school volleyball. We are twelve days into the