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

March 28, 2021 - By NJP A good indication of schedule strength is a new analysis of Power Points on average per game played. NJP's typical schedule strength formula uses the rating of every game played against an opponent which will

March 28, 2021 - By NJP Here are the updated NJP team rankings for NJ high school girls volleyball for Sunday, March 28, 2021. OVERALL CONFERENCE DIVISION GROUP/SECTION

March 26, 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/ Ashley Carkhuff hitting her stride this Spring has lead the Hackettstown Tigers to two straight wins... More

March 27, 2021 - By NJP Natalya Hechavarria does not have a common story for the typical journey of a NJ high school player. She has never played a varsity game coming into this year. And a recent move has taken

March 25, 2021 - By NJP Here is a current Predictor summary update for the season: Snipes added at www.njpowerranking.com/snipes/ Boys College commitment added at https://njpowerranking.com/home/news-posts-2/college-commitments/ Girls College commitments at https://njpowerranking.com/college-commitments-girls/ Game Day videos at https://njpowerranking.com/game-day-videos/ Starting to work on live stream list.... https://njpowerranking.com/livestream-links/ https://youtu.be/cPEI7hhtrAo Congrats Katie!!!! Massive

March 24, 2021 - By NJP 3/24 - 9PM Predictor update YTD: Great game by Hunterdon Central today knocking off #2 North Hunterdon. Impressive showing to continue their undefeated streak for the Spring. NH falls to 4-1 while HC improved to

March 24, 2021 - By NJP Wednesday game predictions are shown below. Here is a year to date recap of the NJP Predictor picks... We continue to revisit and update game scores from previous nights so the numbers continue to change. Day 8

March 22, 2021 - By NJP We would like to welcome Alia Baig to the NJP Family. Alia will be our new contributor covering the Skylands Conference and beyond. All of us at NJP are so excited to have her join

Tuesday's game predictions shown below... Monday went pretty well for NJP with the Predictor achieving a 49-8 record for the night. Year-to-date numbers shown below... 84.6% accuracy over 273 games. Make sure to scroll to see all games... UPDATED 9:00PM

Start of week 2... Let the game begin! Udated 10:40PM:

March 21. 2021 - By NJP It’s been an eventful first week of girls high school volleyball in New Jersey. After all the anticipation and of course the uncertainty as to whether the season would ever happen, it must

March 20, 2021 - By Josh Wilets (Cover photo by Brynn McCurry) Sparta girls varsity volleyball is off to a great start this season, after defeating two NJAC divisional rivals—Mendham and Roxbury. Both matches were won in dominant

March 20, 2021 - By NJP Samantha Dangler is a motivated student athlete that likes to be in the thick of things, no matter what sport she is playing. She is an outstanding athlete that participates in multiple sports including softball,

March 19, 2021 - By NJP Here are Saturday's picks from the NJP Predictor.... NJP picked it up a bit going 29-5 on Friday night.... Some great matches Saturday featuring Northern Highlands against Indian Hills, Donovan Catholic vs. Brick Memorial

3-19-21 - By NJP Here are our NJP Predictor picks for Friday, March 19th. At the time of this article publication... the NJP Predictor has a year to date record of 88-22 based on their preseason rankings. Some great matches on the schedule

3-17-21 - By NJP Happy St. Patrick's Day. NJP takes a shot at the day 2 schedule for NJ Girls High School Volleyball. Opening Day was a glorious reunion of players and teams across the state. It was just too

March 14, 2021 - By NJP Opening Day for New Jersey Girls High School Volleyball is Tuesday, March 16th!!! High School volleyball is a volatile sport. Sometimes impossible to predict. You would have to be totally nuts to take 75 games from

March 12, 2021 - By NJP The Mount Saint Mary Academy Mounties are coming off a great season where they accumulated 20 wins for the campaign. They drew Union Catholic in the state tournament second round but could not get by

March 11, 2021 Picking the NJ High School Player of the Year before the season starts is a tall order. With well over 300 high school girls volleyball programs and well over 5,000 players, it's a bit daunting. And there are

March 9, 2021 - By NJP Barnegat had such a wonderful Cinderella story last year playing their best volleyball at the end of the season and powering into the state sectional semi-final. One of the bright spots was the

March 4, 2021 - By NJP We have taken a shot at presenting a "TABLE" for your review that includes the new division alignments and Playoff Groups. You have the ability to sort any column so you can look

March 3, 2021 - NJP Our new COVID world has sent a destructive shockwave through the New Jersey volleyball community this past year. Season cancellations, delays, quarantines, many new rules and protocols, and a greater question of "Will we ever get

February 23, 2021 - By NJP Taylor Grady is coming off a standout freshman year for Pascack Valley in a year of rebuilding for a team that finished 6-13. This young team is preparing for the upcoming Spring season