Most freshmen spend August watching. They dress for varsity, they serve a rotation in the fourth set of a match that is already decided, and they get their turn in a year or two. That is normal and there is nothing wrong with it. What follows is the other group, the ones whose coaches handed them a starting job in their first month of high school and have not taken it back.

Below, fifteen freshmen already producing for their respective high schools.

Alyssa Jackson OH Rock Hill TX

Jackson leads an 18-8 team in kills with 229, in kills per set at 3.6 and in hitting percentage at .316, and she is second in digs with 220 and second in blocks with 33, with 32 aces and 279 receptions. Nine categories and she is in nine of them. Rock Hill starts five freshmen and she is the loudest of them. Four star, VBallRecruiter Class of 2030.

Tenley Newton OH/DS Burleson TX

Newton has 295 kills at 4.7 per set on a .390 clip, plus 278 digs and 396 receptions, for a team that is 22-4. She plays all six rotations and the kill total is first on the roster. A freshman leading a twenty win program in attacking while also passing is the single most unusual line in this piece.

Danielle Bazan OH Rock Hill TX

The other freshman outside at Rock Hill, with 182 kills at 2.8 per set, 196 digs, 40 aces and 302 receptions. Three star, VBallRecruiter Class of 2030.

Alani Williams L Rock Hill TX

309 digs at 5.2 per set and 352 receptions, first on the team in both.

Harper Skelton S Rock Hill TX

388 assists and 45 aces, first on the team in both. Four freshmen from one roster in one piece is not something we expected to be writing in September.

Addison Wells S Brandeis TX

692 assists. The next Bronco has 25. Brandeis is 18-10 and she has run the offense for all of it, with 37 aces of her own.

Addyson Lofton S Newton County MS

393 assists and 117 digs for a 17-3 team.

Ava Hopkins S/RS Kossuth MS

306 assists and a team high 42 aces at 1.1 per set for a 15-4 team.

Lorin Bass MB Jackson Academy MS

Bass has 62 blocks and a .425 hitting percentage, second on a 23-3 roster ranked third in Mississippi, with 89 kills. Freshman middles do not usually hit .425 against district opponents. Three star, VBallRecruiter Class of 2030.

Claire Christian OH George County MS

Christian leads a 16-10 team in kills with 208, in digs with 150 and in receptions with 280, and she is third in aces with 30. Three categories, first in all of them, in her first September.

London Laubach OH/OPP Cascia Hall OK

Laubach leads a 13-3 team ranked fifteenth in Oklahoma in kills with 160, in kills per set at 3.4, in hitting percentage at .206 and in aces with 25, and she is second in digs with 153 and first in receptions with 297. Five categories on a ranked team, and the seniors around her are setting to a fourteen year old.

Ama Frimpong MB McKinney Boyd TX

59 total blocks, first on a 16-5 roster.

Auri Graham MB Rock Hill TX

91 kills at a .266 clip with 25 blocks, third on the team in both categories.

Daisy Roberts OH/RS Glenn TX

Roberts is second on the Grizzlies in kills with 167 at 2.8 per set and second in hitting percentage at .278, with 157 receptions, for a 15-11 team.

Kynsli Foote MB New Albany MS

Foote has 32 total blocks, second on a roster ranked fifth in Mississippi behind a junior who leads the state in kills.

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