Rock Hill TX is 18-8 and nine of the 10 statistical categories are led by a freshman.

Not a freshman. Freshmen, plural, five of them, and the only category that escapes is total blocks, where senior middle Halen Sieks leads.

Alyssa Jackson has 229 kills and a .316 hitting percentage, and she also has 220 digs and 33 blocks, which means nobody has taken her off the floor in any rotation. She is a 4-star for us in the Class of 2030. Dani Bazan, who plays next to her, has 182 kills and 196 digs and 40 aces. Alani Williams has 309 digs and 352 receptions in the libero jersey. Harper Skelton has 388 assists and 45 aces. Auri Graham has 91 kills and 25 blocks in the middle.

Five freshmen. One varsity. Eighteen wins.

We went looking to see whether Rock Hill was an oddity, and the honest answer is that it is the loudest version of something happening in a lot of places.

At Brandeis in San Antonio, Addison Wells has 692 assists. She is a freshman. That is not a typo. Six hundred and ninety two assists is the kind of number that usually belongs to a fourth-year starter who has been running the same offense since she was 13. Brandeis is 18-10 and she has been the setter for all of it.

At Burleson, Tenley Newton has 295 kills and 278 digs and she is a freshman playing all six rotations for a team that is 22-4. Her class has company there. Laurie Collins, also a freshman, has 304 assists.

At Cascia Hall in Tulsa, London Laubach leads the Commandos in kills with 160, leads them in hitting percentage, and leads them in aces with 25, on a team that is 13-3 and ranked in Oklahoma. Freshman.

At Newton County in Decatur, Mississippi, Addyson Lofton has 393 assists for a 17-3 team. Freshman. Two of her teammates are listed as eighth graders and both are among the program's statistical leaders, Madeline Lang with 32 blocks and Tinleigh Thompson with 37 aces. Small school Mississippi volleyball has always done this and it still surprises people.

At Jackson Academy, Lorin Bass has 62 blocks and a .425 hitting percentage. She is a freshman middle on a 22-2 team ranked second in Mississippi, and a three star for us in the Class of 2030.

At Kossuth, Ava Hopkins has 306 assists. At McKinney Boyd, Ama Frimpong has 59 blocks. At Glenn in Leander, Daisy Roberts has 167 kills at a .278 hitting percentage. All freshmen.

VBALLRECRUITER CLASS OF 2030 PRODUCTION

Grouped by category. Within each category the order is by total. The categories are not ranked against each other.

ASSISTS

Addison Wells, Brandeis TX, 692
Addyson Lofton, Newton County MS, 393
Harper Skelton, Rock Hill TX, 388
Brielle Eveland, Lowell MI, 310
Ava Hopkins, Kossuth MS, 306
Mia Corona, Claremont CA, 306
Laurie Collins, Burleson TX, 304
Aaliyah Apollons, Ola GA, 292
Leila Rendon, Warren TX, 281
Jaden Friar, Melissa TX, 278

Story Nixon, Harrison IN, 270
Mae Nelson, St. Mary's Academy GA, 256
Malyn Query, Mooresville IN, 244
Aubree Sanford, Wink TX, 244

KILLS

Tenley Newton, Burleson TX, 295
Alyssa Jackson, Rock Hill TX, 229. Four star, VBallRecruiter Class of 2030.
Danielle Bazan, Rock Hill TX, 182. Three star, VBallRecruiter Class of 2030.
Daisy Roberts, Glenn TX, 167
London Laubach, Cascia Hall OK, 160
Jessa Cox, La Vernia TX, 137

Kamryn Wood, Springtown TX, 104
Addison Posey, Newton County MS, 102
Auri Graham, Rock Hill TX, 91

DIGS

Ashley Shreves, Springtown TX, 344
Alani Williams, Rock Hill TX, 309
Tenley Newton, Burleson TX, 278
Kaylee Ng, Arcadia CA, 232
Ella Quiroz, Hammond Bishop Noll IN, 220
Laila Yancey, Hebron IN, 215
Madison Cervantes, Del Valle TX, 200

Georgia Kate French, Alleluia Community GA, 188

BLOCKS

Lorin Bass, Jackson Academy MS, 62. Three star, VBallRecruiter Class of 2030.
Ama Frimpong, McKinney Boyd TX, 59
Sophia Pinto, Cypress Springs TX, 59
Gabriella Perez, London TX, 53
Jessa Cox, La Vernia TX, 48
Reese McDuffie, Milton GA, 40
Madeline Lang, Newton County MS, 32
Eliana Finucane, Madison TX, 32
Laila Gary, Carrboro NC, 13

ACES

Tinleigh Thompson, Newton County MS, 37

The thing worth sitting with is what a freshman year looks like from the inside. You show up in August to a gym full of girls who have been in the program for three years, and either the ball comes to you or it does not. For most freshmen it does not, and that is fine, and they get their turn.

For these 39 it came immediately, in August, on varsity, in matches that counted. Rock Hill is the extreme case because five of them arrived at once and the staff handed them the season. Most programs would not do that. Most programs are not 18-8 either.

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