The 2016 high school volleyball season is underway and state tournaments are quickly approaching.
Each state conducts their tournaments differently, with each state typically splitting up their school’s by classes or divisions based on the size of the school. To reach the state tournament, teams will be play other school’s in your class or division based on your overall record for the year. From there, and depending upon the state, the team will move to quarterfinal play at the state tournament. Then semifinals and the teams ultimate goal, to reach the finals. Each class or division will have their own state champion at the end of the tournament.
The participation of girl’s volleyball at the high school level is ever-growing. For the 2015/16 year, 15,755 schools in every state had a volleyball program, bringing the total amount of participants to 436,309. Boy’s volleyball lacks in high school participation, with only 2,333 schools in 22 states having a program and 55,417 participants.
Girls State Playoff Schedule’s
| State | Dates |
| Alabama | Oct. 17-18 – Area Tournaments
Oct. 20-22 – Super Regionals Oct. 26-27 – Finals |
| Alaska | Nov. 10-12 – Finals (2A, Mixed 6)
Dec. 10-12 – Finals (3A, 4A) |
| Arizona | Nov. 2 – First Round (6A, 5A, 4A)
Nov. 4 – First Round/Second Round (3A, 2A, 1A) Nov. 5 – Second Round (6A, 6A, 4A) Nov. 5 – Semi/Finals (3A, 2A, 1A) Nov. 8 – Semis (6A, 5A, 4A) Nov. 9 – Finals (6A, 5A, 4A) |
| Arkansas | Oct. 24-27 – State Tournament
Oct. 29 – Finals |
| California | Nov. 16-26 – Northern/Southern Regionals
Dec. 2-3 – Finals |
| Colorado | Nov. 11-12 – Pool Play
Nov. 12 – Finals, after pool play is completed |
| Connecticut | Nov. 5 – Qualifying round
Nov. 7 – First round Nov. 9-10 – Second round Nov. 11-12 – Quarterfinals Nov. 15-16 – Semifinals Nov. 19 – Finals |
| Delaware | Nov. 14 – Finals |
| Florida | Oct. 17-21 – District tournaments
Oct. 25 – Regional tournament quarterfinals (5A-9A) Oct. 26 – Regional tournament semifinals (1A-4A) Oct. 28 – Regional tournament semifinals (5A-9A) Oct. 29 – Regional tournament finals (1A-4A) Nov. 1 – Regional tournament finals (5A-9A) Nov. 5 – Semifinals Nov. 11-12 – Finals |
| Georgia | Oct. 29 – Finals |
| Hawaii | Oct. 24-29 – Tournament (division 1)
Oct. 26-29 – Tournament (division 2) |
| Idaho | Oct. 28-29 – Finals |
| Illinois | Nov. 11-12 – Finals |
| Indiana | Oct. 18-22 – Sectionals
Oct. 25 – Regionals Oct. 29 – Semifinals Nov. 5 – Finals |
| Iowa | Oct. 18-Nov. 1 – Regional competition (1A, 2A)
Oct. 19-31 – Regional competition (3A-5A) Nov. 8-11 – Finals |
| Kansas | Oct. 28-29 – Finals |
| Kentucky | Oct. 23-29 – Regionals
Oct. 30-Nov. 5 – Finals |
| Louisiana | Nov. 10-12 – Finals |
| Maine | Oct. 22 – Quarterfinals
Oct. 26 – Semifinals Oct. 29 – Finals |
| Maryland | Nov. 14 – Semifinals (3A)
Nov. 15 – Semifinals (1A) Nov. 16 – Semifinals (4A) Nov. 17 – Semifinals (2A) Nov. 19 – Finals |
| Massachusetts | Nov. 12-13 – Sectional Finals
Nov. 15-16 – Semifinals Nov. 19 – Finals |
| Michigan | Nov. 8-10 – Regionals
Nov. 15 – Quarter finals Nov. 17-19 – Semifinals Nov. 19 – Finals |
| Minnesota | Nov. 10-12 – Tournament |
| Mississippi | Oct. 28-29 – Finals |
| Missouri | Oct. 28 – Pool play
Oct. 29 – Finals |
| Montana | Nov. 10-12 – Finals |
| Nebraska | Nov. 10-12 – Finals |
| Nevada | Nov. 1-3 – Regionals (4A, 3A Southern)
Nov. 4-5 – Regionals (3A Northern, 1A Northern) Nov. 5 – Regionals (2A, 1A Southern) Nov. 11-12 – Finals |
| New Hampshire | Oct. 26 – Prelims (Division I)
Oct. 27 – Prelims (Division II, Division III) Oct. 29 – Quarterfinals Nov. 2 – Semifinals (Division I, Division III) Nov. 3 – Semifinals (Division II) Nov. 4 – Finals (Division III) Nov. 5 – Finals (Division I, Division II) |
| New Jersey | Nov. 2 – 1st Round
Nov. 4 – 2nd Round Nov. 7-8 – 3rd Round Nov. 10 – Sectional Finals Nov. 12 – Finals |
| New Mexico | Nov. 10-12 – Finals |
| New York | Nov. 1-12 – Sub-Regionals and regionals
Nov. 19 – Pool play and semifinals Nov. 20 – Finals |
| North Carolina | Oct. 22 – Round 1
Oct. 25 – Round 2 Oct. 27 – Round 3 Oct. 29 – Round 4 Nov. 1 – Regionals Nov. 5 – Finals |
| North Dakota | Nov. 7-10 – Region 1-8 tournament
Nov. 8-12 – East and West tournament Nov. 17-19 – Finals |
| Ohio | Oct. 17-22 – Sectional Tournament Oct. 24-29 – District TournamentOct. 31-Nov. 5 – Regional tournamentNov. 10-12 – Finals |
| Oklahoma | Oct. 7-8 – Finals (3A, 4A)
Oct. 17 – Quarterfinals & Semifinals (5A, 6A) Oct. 18 – Finals (5A, 6A) |
| Oregon | Oct. 26 – Round 1
Oct. 29 – Round 2 Nov. 4 – Quarterfinals Nov. 4 – Semifinals Nov. 5 – Finals |
| Pennsylvania | Nov. 8 – First Round
Nov. 12 – Quarterfinals Nov. 15 – Semifinals Nov. 19 – Finals |
| Rhode Island | Nov. 7-8 – Preliminaries
Nov. 10-12 – Quarterfinals Nov. 16-17 – Semifinals Nov. 19 – Finals |
| South Carolina | Nov. 5 – Finals |
| South Dakota | Nov. 17-19 – Finals |
| Tennessee | Oct. 19-21 – Finals |
| Texas | Nov. 16 – Semifinals
Nov. 17 – Finals |
| Utah | Oct. 26-27 – Finals(3A)
Oct. 28-29 – Finals (1A, 2A) Nov. 3-5 – Finals (4A) Nov. 4-5 – Finals (5A) |
| Vermont | Oc.t 28-29 – Quarterfinals
Oct. 31- Nov. 1-2 – Semifinals Nov. 5 – Finals |
| Virginia | Nov. 15 – Semifinals
Nov. 18-19 – Finals |
| Washington | Nov. 11-12 – Finals |
| West Virginia | Nov. 11-12 – Finals |
| Wisconsin | Oct. 20 – Regionals
Oct. 27-29 – Sectionals Nov. 3-5 – Finals |
| Wyoming | Nov. 3-5 – Finals |
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