Why a national list this month is a list of two states

That is the last week of August in high school volleyball, and it is the reason a national list this month is mostly a list of two states.

So here is the other version. One athlete from each of 25 programs, in 13 states, chosen because she leads her own team in something. Not ranked against each other. There is no honest way to rank a girl with 300 kills in Texas against a girl with 30 in Ohio, and pretending otherwise is how you end up telling a kid in Wisconsin she is not very good when what you mean is that her season has not started.

All 25, by state

State	Athlete	Pos	Class	High school	Figure	Category	Record
Texas	Kendal White	OPP	Sr.	Iowa Colony	171	kills	17-8
Texas	Harper Skelton	S	Fr.	Rock Hill, Frisco	388	assists	18-8
Texas	Hallie Garner	MH	Sr.	Lutheran South Academy, Houston	17	blocks	11-7
Texas	Brady Cooksey	S/RS	Jr.	Boerne-Champion, Boerne	427	assists	15-3
Texas	Abrielle Johnson	S	So.	Mansfield	228	assists	23-3
Texas	Ainsley Anderson	S	Jr.	Crawford	561	assists	—
Texas	Larae Jones	OH/DS	Sr.	McAllen Memorial, McAllen	225	kills	—
Mississippi	Carolina Walker	OH/RS	Jr.	Jackson Prep, Jackson	67	kills	—
Mississippi	Macie Lofton	OPP/OH	Jr.	Newton County, Decatur	49	aces	17-3
Mississippi	Ava Hopkins	S/RS	Fr.	Kossuth	306	assists	—
Mississippi	Asia Lindsay	MB	So.	Jackson Academy, Jackson	64	blocks	22-2
Georgia	Rilee Williams	OH/RS	Sr.	Westlake, Atlanta	80	kills	—
Georgia	Caylee Beyer	S/RS/OH	Sr.	Northview, Johns Creek	30	kills	1-14
Georgia	Alyce Norton	OH	Sr.	Coahulla Creek, Dalton	254	kills	—
Alabama	Elizabeth Campbell	DS/L	So.	Montgomery Academy, Montgomery	75	digs	3-3
Tennessee	Allison Floyd	S	Jr.	Briarcrest Christian, Eads	232	assists	9-2
North Carolina	Brooke Williams	L/OH	Jr.	Carrboro	80	digs	8-2
Oklahoma	Kennedy Welsh	L/DS	Sr.	Cascia Hall, Tulsa	178	digs	13-3
New Mexico	Camilla Villarreal	OH/DS	Jr.	Albuquerque	—	hitting %	—
Utah	Annie Cronauer	MB	Jr.	Wasatch, Heber City	67	kills	5-2
Utah	Chloe Stechschulte	OH/OPP/MH	Jr.	Juan Diego Catholic, Draper	—	digs / set	—
Nevada	Boyana Pesic	OH/S/DS	Jr.	Bishop Gorman, Las Vegas	—	kills	3-0
Indiana	Ella Dragoo	OH/DS	Sr.	Fishers	7	aces	—
Ohio	Averie Shell	S	Jr.	Wadsworth	29	assists	2-0
Illinois	Harper Richardson	S	Sr.	Marshall	10	assists	—

Texas

Kendal White at Iowa Colony leads her team in six of the ten categories the school publishes: kills, digs, aces, receptions, kills per set, digs per set. She is a senior right side who plays all the way around, 171 kills and 236 digs and 42 aces, for a team that is 17-8.

Harper Skelton at Rock Hill has 388 assists and 45 aces and leads the Blue Hawks in both. She is a freshman.

Hallie Garner at Lutheran South Academy leads the Pioneers in hitting percentage at .277 and is second in blocks with 17. Her team is 11-7.

Brady Cooksey at Boerne-Champion has 427 assists and 138 digs and leads the Chargers in hitting percentage, which is a setter doing three jobs.

Abrielle Johnson at Mansfield leads the Tigers in assists with 228 and in aces per set, on a team that is 23-3. Ainsley Anderson at Crawford has 561 assists and leads her team in hitting percentage. Larae Jones at McAllen Memorial has 225 kills and 271 digs and leads in both.

Mississippi and Georgia

Carolina Walker at Jackson Prep leads the Patriots in kills, kills per set and hitting percentage at .304, with 28 aces on top. Macie Lofton at Newton County has 49 aces, one per set, and leads a 17-3 team in both. Ava Hopkins at Kossuth has 306 assists as a freshman. Asia Lindsay at Jackson Academy has 64 blocks and hits .412.

Rilee Williams at Westlake in Atlanta leads her team in kills with 80 and receptions with 132. Caylee Beyer at Northview in Johns Creek appears in nine of the ten categories her school publishes and leads it in hitting percentage. Northview is 1-14 and she is in almost every column of it. Alyce Norton at Coahulla Creek has 254 kills at a .494 hitting percentage, one of the two best marks we found in the country.

Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Oklahoma

Elizabeth Campbell at Montgomery Academy has 75 digs and 94 receptions in fifteen sets, 5.0 digs per set, and leads a 3-3 team in both.

Allison Floyd at Briarcrest Christian leads the Saints in assists with 232, plus 43 digs and 9 aces, for a team that is 9-2 and ranked fifth in Tennessee.

Brooke Williams at Carrboro appears in six of the ten categories her school publishes and leads the Jaguars in digs, digs per set and receptions, with 83 kills on top of it. Carrboro is 8-2.

Kennedy Welsh at Cascia Hall has 178 digs and 151 receptions and leads the Commandos in both. Cascia Hall is 13-3 and ranked fifteenth in Oklahoma.

New Mexico, Utah, Nevada

Camilla Villarreal at Albuquerque High leads the Bulldogs in hitting percentage at .324 and in receptions. Her school's page reconciles to roughly four sets, so that is a start rather than a season, and it is in because it is the only New Mexico line we could verify.

Annie Cronauer at Wasatch leads the Wasps in kills, kills per set and hitting percentage, and her .504 is the highest hitting percentage we found in the country today. Chloe Stechschulte at Juan Diego Catholic appears in nine of the ten categories her school publishes and leads it in digs per set.

Boyana Pesic at Bishop Gorman leads the Gaels in kills, hitting percentage and digs through a 3-0 start.

Indiana, Ohio, Illinois

Ella Dragoo at Fishers leads the Tigers in aces with 7 and is second in kills with 39. Indiana started three weeks after Texas.

Averie Shell at Wadsworth leads the Grizzlies in assists with 29. Wadsworth has played two matches and won both.

Harper Richardson at Marshall leads the Lions in assists. Illinois has played one match.

Look at the range on that page

Kendal White has played sixty-two sets. Averie Shell has played two matches. Both of them are the most important player on their own team right now, and only one of them is going to appear on a national list this month.

The girls at the bottom of that spread are not behind. Their seasons started later. In six weeks the Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin numbers will look like the Texas numbers do today, and somebody will get described as coming out of nowhere. She will have been there the whole time.

On the cusp

Averie Shell (Wadsworth OH), Harper Richardson (Marshall IL), Elizabeth Campbell (Montgomery Academy AL), Ella Dragoo (Fishers IN), Chloe Stechschulte (Juan Diego Catholic UT).

Five athletes leading their programmes in states that have played fewer than ten matches. The totals are small and the rates are not. Check back on all five in October.

How we built this

Figures are through Monday, August 31. This is the only piece in today's set that is entirely school sourced: there is no leaderboard figure anywhere in it, and every "leads her team" claim is the first listed name in that category on that school's own published page, checked line by line.

One entry was cut. A California line claiming the best block rate in the country came off a national board, was never confirmed against the school's page, and was the strongest claim in the piece resting on the weakest source. It is out until somebody reads that page, at which point this becomes fourteen states.

Two names were corrected against the schools' own statistics rather than our records, and both matter because a name is how a coach finds an athlete. Positions and class years are confirmed off each athlete's own team roster.

Nobody on this page is ranked against anybody else on it, and none of the twenty-five carries a VBallRecruiter evaluation.

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*Stats as of Aug. 31, 2026.