Volleyball Watch List: 910 teams, top players hoping to break through in 2023
HighSchoolOT is previewing the upcoming volleyball season with its annual watch list across the state's six area codes.
The 910 area code refers to the Sandhills and southeastern counties of New Hanover, Cumberland, and Onslow as well as Harnett, Moore, Sampson, Brunswick, Pender, Duplin, Columbus, Robeson, Bladen, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland, and Hoke. In our preseason rankings, Midway is the top-ranked volleyball team in the 910. The Raiders also start the year 16th in the overall state rankings.
Here's what you need to know about HSOT Watch Lists:
- Unlike previous years, there was no set number of athletes on each one.
- The Watch List organizes athletes by county and then lists them alphabetically.
- Being on the HSOT Watch List does NOT factor into future awards, like HSOT All-State and HSOT Honors.
- Last year's all-state team and final rankings are listed at the bottom of this story, as is this year's preseason rankings.
- Each player has a quick list of accomplishments from this past season. Accomplishments from previous seasons are noted by what year they occurred in.
- Sometimes transfers happen in the offseason and we are unaware. If that's the case with any athlete below, please notify us at jmbpreps@gmail.com
The 910 volleyball HSOT Watch List features a third-team all-state player in Cape Fear's Olivia Melvin.
No 910 area team has played for the NCHSAA title since Hoggard was the 4A runner-up in 2011.
Montgomery, Scotland, Richmond, Hoke, Moore, and Robeson counties
Ellie Chapin, Union Pines (junior)
- 223 kills (2.3/set, 30.6 kill%)
- 23 aces
- 333 digs (3.4/set, 12.8/match)
Ava Edmundson, Richmond (senior)
- 24 aces
- 238 digs (3.6/set, 14.0/match)
- 399 assists (6.0/set) -- 21/1462 BHE
Brooke Emore, Pinecrest (junior)
- 211 kills (2.5/set, 46.7 kill%)
- 31 blocks
Addison Johnson, Scotland (junior)
- Outside hitter
Allie Rodgers, Richmond (senior)
- 18 aces
- 396 digs (5.7/set, 22.0/match)
Sampson and Harnett counties
Savannah Bain, Harnett Central (senior)
- 245 kills (2.0/set, 55.6 kill%)
- 164 blocks
- 200 digs (1.7/set, 8.3/match)
- 270 assists (2.3/set)
Bailey Dorman, Cape Fear Christian (sophomore)
- 247 kills (2.9/set)
- 59 aces
- 423 digs (5.0/set, 16.9/match)
Ava Faucette, Harnett Central (sophomore)
- 425 kills (3.5/set)
- 67 aces
- 197 digs (1.6/set, 8.2/match)
Morgan Hall, Midway (senior)
- 247 kills
- 62 aces
- 62 digs
Morgan Williams, Midway (senior)
- 269 kills
- 12 aces
- 89 digs
McKenzie Williams, Midway (senior)
- HSOT Honorable Mention all-state
- 19 aces
- 419 digs (5.1/set, 16.1/match)
Duplin and Onslow counties
Addyson Jarman, East Duplin (senior)
- 143 kills (2.0/set, 47.5 kill%)
- 96 blocks
Lovina Teel, Jacksonville (senior)
- 203 kills (3.3/set, 49.3 kill%)
- 21 aces
- 46 blocks
Bladen, Columbus, Pender, and Brunswick counties
Ryan Lambert, Topsail (junior)
- 205 kills (3.1/set, 44.0 kill%)
- 26 aces
- 24 blocks
- 111 digs (1.7/set, 5.0/match)
Lauren Elizabeth Richardson, South Columbus (senior)
- 154 kills (3.7/set, 59.2 kill%)
- 42 aces
- 65 digs (1.5/set)
- 165 assists (3.9/set) -- 3/301 BHE
New Hanover County
Emma Anderson, Coastal Christian (senior)
- 190 kills (2.2/set, 36.1 kill%)
- 18 aces
- 17 blocks
- 126 digs (1.4/set, 4.2/match)
Kathryn Emmart, Cape Fear Academy (senior)
- 44 aces
- 399 digs (5.1/set, 17.3/match)
Carolina Bariglio, Cape Fear Academy (senior)
- 349 kills (4.1/set, 35.8 kill%)
- 94 aces
- 280 digs (3.3/set, 12.2/match)
- 126 assists (1.5/set)
Mia Elder, Hoggard (senior)
- 217 kills (2.1/set, 37.8 kill%)
- 42 blocks
Samantha Harrell, Coastal Christian (senior)
- 43 aces
- 294 digs (3.0/set, 9.2/match)
Megan Kelly, Hoggard (senior)
- 26 kills
- 73 aces
- 142 aces (1.2/set, 3.9/match)
- 582 assists (5.1/set) 47/1442 BHE
Mary McCarty, Ashley (senior)
- 125 kills (1.4/set, 42.2 kill%)
- 60 blocks
Isabel Sandstrum, Laney (senior)
- 251 kills (3.1/set, 42.9 kill%)
- 72 aces
- 18 blocks
- 236 digs (2.9/set, 9.4/match)
Cumberland County
Brooke Bombatepe, Cape Fear (senior)
- 213 kills (2.5/set, 38.1 kill%)
- 52 aces
- 28 blocks
- 268 digs (3.1/set, 10.3/match)
- 333 assists (3.9/set) -- 15/848 BHE
Olivia Melvin, Cape Fear (senior)
- HSOT 3rd team all-state
- 316 kills (3.6/set, 46.1 kill%)
- 40 aces
- 36 blocks
- 349 digs (4.0/set, 13.4/match)
K.K. Morse, Terry Sanford (senior)
- 38 aces
- 347 digs (4.1/set, 14.5/match)
- 20 assists
Chloe Pfunter, Village Christian (senior)
- 237 kills (2.9/set, 51.5 kill%)
- 72 aces
- 20 blocks
- 313 digs (3.9/set, 14.2/match)
Kayla Schlautman, Gray's Creek (senior)
- 58 aces
- 412 digs (4.6/set, 15.8/match)
- 84 assists
Ava Sterling, Gray's Creek (junior)
- 315 kills (3.5/set, 37.1 kill%)
- 30 aces
- 19 blocks
- 355 digs (4.0/set, 13.7/match)
