Setters are the hardest position for a family to get recruited out of, because the number that describes the job is the one nobody outside the gym ever sees. A hitter's kill total travels. An assist total sits in a column and waits. So this week we went and pulled the column.

Below, 17 setters running their respective high school offenses, with what is around them.

Sutton Breck Tessier S/RS Lake Creek TX

Tessier has 719 assists, the largest single figure in any category, in any class, that we have come across this season. Lake Creek is 24-8 and has played 78 sets, more than almost anybody in the country, and she has been on the floor for essentially all of them. She also has 212 digs and 31 blocks and hits .259 herself. The sophomore is second on her own roster in nothing, because she is first in the only thing her position is measured by and she has 66 more assists than she did a week ago.

Addison Wells S Brandeis TX

A freshman with 692 assists. That is not a typo. Brandeis is 18-10 and the next Bronco on the assist list has 25, so she has run every rotation of the season in her first year of high school. She has 37 aces as well.

Lylah Lopez-Castillo S McAllen Memorial TX

The sophomore has 578 assists for a 20-7 team, and she is also second in digs with 250 and first in blocks with 36. A setter leading her program in blocking is a genuinely odd and useful line, and it means she is not being hidden in the back row.

Jaci Stull OH/S Montgomery TX

Stull has 453 assists, 215 digs and 143 kills. The sophomore is listed at two positions because she plays them both, and Montgomery is 24-6.

Brady Cooksey S/RS Boerne-Champion TX

427 assists and 138 digs for a 15-3 team, plus the best hitting percentage on the roster at .279.

Harper Harbuck S Aledo TX

Harbuck has 399 assists and leads the Bearcats in aces with 37 at 0.6 per set, with 180 digs. Aledo is 19-6 and she sets for the best defender in the country.

Addyson Lofton S Newton County MS

The freshman has 393 assists for a 17-3 team, plus 117 digs, third on the roster. Her sister setter situation is unusual too. Newton County also has a Macie Lofton, a junior, who leads the team in aces with 49.

Harper Skelton S Rock Hill TX

Skelton has 388 assists and 45 aces, first on the team in both, as a freshman on an 18-8 roster that starts four other freshmen.

Gabby Fiori S McKinney Boyd TX

346 assists for a 16-5 team, with 16 aces. The sophomore splits time with a senior who has 205, which is the arrangement a lot of good programs are running right now.

Leila Davis S Burleson TX

Davis has 339 assists, first on a 22-4 team, ahead of a freshman with 304. Burleson has two setters both producing at a starter's rate and it is not obvious from the outside which one is the starter.

Madison Reso S/RS Hancock MS

Reso has 341 assists and leads the Hawks in aces with 51 at one per set and is second in digs with 105. Hancock is 13-6, 2-0 in district and ranked fourteenth in Mississippi.

Ava Hopkins S/RS Kossuth MS

A freshman with 306 assists who also leads Kossuth in aces with 42 at 1.1 per set, the best ace rate on a 15-4 roster. She is setting for two hitters above .375.

Abrielle Johnson S Mansfield TX

Johnson has 228 assists and 19 aces and leads Mansfield in aces per set. The Tigers are 23-3 and every one of the ten categories that program publishes is led by a sophomore. She holds two of them.

Krissi Pavolini MH/S Our Lady Academy MS

Pavolini has 257 assists and is also second on the roster in kills with 157 and second in blocks with 21, on a 13-5 team ranked seventeenth in Mississippi. Setter and middle is not a combination that usually shares one line.

Emileigh Pounds S West Marion MS

226 assists and 27 aces, plus 128 digs, for an 11-6 team. The next West Marion player has six assists.

Maddie Coleman S Cascia Hall OK

Coleman has 203 assists and 20 aces for a 13-3 team ranked fifteenth in Oklahoma, splitting with Sophia Salas at 180. Cascia Hall runs two setters and its leading scorer is a freshman.

Zoe Paden S/DS Westlake GA

Paden leads the Lions in assists with 173 and in aces with 26 at 0.6 per set, and she is second in digs with 54. Georgia is earlier in its season than Texas and this is a full workload inside it.

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