The junior class is the one that moves fastest right now. Most of these players will make their college decision inside the next twelve months, and a September like the ones below is what starts that conversation. Yesterday we ran the sophomores. This week the Class of 2028 gets its turn.

Below, eighteen juniors having big seasons for their respective high schools.

Kate McGough OH Hebron TX

Hebron is 21-6 and McGough leads the Hawks in kills with 269 at four per set, more than a hundred clear of the next hitter on the roster. She is also third in digs with 204, second in receptions with 246 and third in aces with 20, on a .259 clip. Playing every rotation on a team this good, at this volume, is the whole profile.

Annie Cronauer MB Wasatch UT

Cronauer is hitting .504. Not .404. She leads the Wasps in kills with 67, in kills per set at 2.9 and in hitting percentage, and she is tied for the team lead in blocks with 12, with 11 aces on top. Utah started late and Wasatch is 5-2 and ranked twelfth in the state, so the totals are small and the rate is not.

Makayla Escobedo DS/L Madison TX

Escobedo has 495 digs at 7.4 per set and 370 receptions, both first on the roster by an enormous margin, plus 51 assists and 15 aces out of the back row. Madison is 8-20. Digging 495 balls for a team that has lost twenty matches is a different job than digging them for a team that wins, and somebody has to touch every ball that comes back over.

Leyton Minnix L/DS Crawford TX

Minnix has 469 digs at 8.1 per set for a 21-5 team, plus 340 receptions and 25 aces, first in all three. Her dig total is 227 clear of the next Pirate.

Ainsley Anderson S Crawford TX

Anderson has 561 assists and, unusually, also leads Crawford in hitting percentage at .353. A setter topping her own team's efficiency chart means she is putting the ball down herself out of the front row rather than only setting it.

Brooke Williams L/OH Carrboro NC

Carrboro is 8-2 and Williams appears in six of the ten categories the school publishes, leading the Jaguars in digs with 80, in digs per set at 2.3 and in receptions with 142, while sitting second in kills with 83 and second in hitting percentage at .257. A libero who is also the team's second leading attacker is not a common line.

Chloe Stechschulte OH/OPP/MH Juan Diego UT

Stechschulte appears in nine of the ten categories Juan Diego publishes and leads the Soaring Eagle in digs per set at three. Kills, digs, aces, receptions, assists, she is in all of them. The team is 0-4 and she is the reason the matches have been matches.

Camilla Villarreal OH/DS Albuquerque NM

Villarreal leads the Bulldogs in hitting percentage at .324 and in receptions, with 15 kills and nine digs through a 2-1 start. New Mexico has barely begun.

Carolina Walker OH/RS Jackson Prep MS

Walker leads the Patriots in kills with 67, in kills per set at 2.5 and in hitting percentage at .304, and sits second in aces with 28 at one per set. She is doing all of it at a school sitting 4-5.

Blaire Sexton OH/RS Lake Creek TX

Lake Creek is 24-8 and Sexton has 245 kills at a .276 clip with 184 digs. On a roster that also carries the highest assist total in the country, she is the one taking the swings.

Allison Floyd S Briarcrest Christian TN

Briarcrest is 9-2 and ranked fifth in Tennessee, and Floyd has 232 assists, first on the team by 215. She also has 43 digs and nine aces. Tennessee opened in August and this is what the front half of a season looks like there.

Boyana Pesic OH/S/DS Bishop Gorman NV

Pesic leads the Gaels in kills with 24, in kills per set at 3.4, in hitting percentage at .250 and in digs with 19 through a 3-0 start, with 22 assists as well. Nevada is three matches old. She leads four categories in it.

Brady Cooksey S/RS Boerne-Champion TX

A 15-3 team, and Cooksey has 427 assists plus 138 digs, and she leads the Chargers in hitting percentage at .279. Second setter on the roster has 37 assists, so this is a full time job.

Camille Rucker S Carrboro NC

Rucker leads Carrboro in assists with 184 and in aces with 27 at 0.8 per set.

Sarah Vandersea OH Carrboro NC

The Jaguars' leading hitter with 84 kills at 2.5 per set. Carrboro has three juniors in this piece, which is why they are 8-2.

Anna Davis MB Burleson TX

Davis has 87 total blocks, the highest block total we have verified at any school in the country this season, along with 156 kills and a .374 hitting percentage for a 22-4 team.

Trinity Johnson OH McKinney Boyd TX

Johnson has 200 kills and 296 digs for a 16-5 team, second on the roster in the latter behind one of the best libero seasons in the country.

Kyleigh Shaw S Madison TX

Shaw has 345 assists, 363 digs, 33 blocks and 17 aces. A setter with 363 digs and 33 blocks is playing all six rotations and doing three different jobs in them.

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