NCAA Volleyball Quarterfinalists Represent 24 States and 5 Countries

The Big 12 and the PAC 12 conferences dominated the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championships. Teams from their conferences filled 7 of the 8 quarterfinal slots. Texas was the only school from another conference.

This brief analysis identifies the home states of the most active players from the teams in the quarterfinals. Information was gathered from the rosters and stats pages of the school’s athletic department websites. Only players were included in this analysis that played more than half the sets during the season.

The following two tables identify the home countries and states for the quarterfinalists. The first table looks at the location by country and the second table identifies the home state for the U.S. players.

There were only 5 foreign players at four schools. Four of the quarterfinalists had all players from the U.S.

The rosters of most teams included players from within their regions. For example Purdue has 6 players from Indiana and USC had five players from California.

Of the 72 players from the U.S., 15 were from California, 11 from Texas, 9 from Illinois and 7 from Indiana.

Five of the 8 schools have players from California, 6 schools have players from Texas, and 4 schools have players from Illinois.

Although about 60% of the players are from 4 states, the key players from the quarterfinalists were from 24 states.

The data illustrates that quality programs are developing high performance players in most parts of the country.