2022 VolleyballMag.com Girls Fab 50: Players from 22 states and 31 clubs who will attend 27 schools
Best of the Best
Mike Miazga
March 17, 2022
The prevailing theme for the 2022 VolleyballMag.com Girls Fab 50?
Everybody wins!
This year’s Girls Fab 50 list, the longest-running national awards platform that honors the top 50 senior-age players in the country voted on by an elite panel of NCAA Division I coaches (the VolleyballMag.com staff has nothing to do with the rankings beyond assembling them after balloting), features players from 22 states and 31 clubs who will attend 27 different Division I institutions of higher learning.
Geographically, the usual two suspects crossed the finish line well ahead of anybody else with Texas leading the way with nine Fab 50 positions, one ahead of usual winner California and its eight selections. Illinois and Florida had four each.
The Southern California-based Sunshine Volleyball Club tied with Dallas-Fort Worth-based Skyline Juniors for the most Fab 50 picks with four each.
Of note, Sunshine’s four selections in Kelly Belardi (Stanford), Elia Rubin (Stanford), Megan Verbiest (USC) and Kerry Keefe (Duke) represent the vast majority of Los Angeles Marymount High School’s starting lineup from this past season. Marymount was the 2021 VolleyballMag.com girls high school team of the year and Rubin was the recent VolleyballMag.com girls high school player of the year.
Houston Skyline and Atlanta-based A5 tied for the next position with three Fab 50 picks each.
Who got rich on the college side? How about the USC Trojans, who lead the way with five Fab 50 picks. Nebraska, Minnesota, Texas and Notre Dame  each had three, while Northwestern and Pepperdine are notable this time with two each.
In terms of the top recruits in the land, Minnesota-bound McKenna Wucherer is No. 1 in the Class of 2022 as voted on by the Fab 50 panel. The 6-1 outside hitter out of the Milwaukee suburbs and the Milwaukee Sting program received the majority of the first-place votes.
USC-bound Jordan Middleton, who seemingly has been on any VolleyballMag.com awards list for what seems like forever, was a semi-distant second and Texas signee Devin Kahahawai out of Hawaii and the Spike & Serve club was the other significant vote-getter in this race. The top five was rounded out with Nebraska recruit Maggie Mendelson (Ogden, Utah) at No. 4 and Skyline product Averi Carlson (Baylor) and the above-mentioned Rubin tied for fifth.
McKenna Wucherer/Milwaukee Sting photo
Name, Height, Position, High School, Club, College Rebekah Allick, 6-4, MB, North Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), VC Nebraska, Nebraska Brianna Anderson, 5-10, OH-Libero, Buchholz (Gainesville, Florida), OTVA, LSU Rosemary Archer, 6-0, S, Lovejoy (Lucas, Texas), TAV, Pepperdine Kelly Belardi, 5-9, S, Marymount (Los Angeles, California), Sunshine, Stanford Carter Booth, 6-7, MB,, Cherry Creek (Greenwood Village), Colorado), Colorado Jrs., Minnesota Aly Borellis, 6-0, S, Notre Dame Prep (Pontiac, Michigan), Michigan Elite, Ole Miss Eden Bower, 6-3, OH, Skyview (Nampa, Idaho), Idaho Crush, BYU Ava Brizard, 6-0, OH, Marian (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), Michigan Elite, NC State Riley Buckley, 6-0, S-OH, North Raleigh (North Carolina) Christian, NC Academy, Missouri Emily Canaan, 5-8, L-DS, Allen (Texas), Skyline, Florida
Averi Carlson/Skyline VBC
Averi Carlson, 5-11, S, Lovejoy (Lucas, Texas), Skyline, Baylor Mimi Colyer, 6-2, OH, Lincoln (Stockton, California), SynergyForce, Oregon Alexis Dacosta, 5-10, OH, Fulshear (Texas), Skyline, Baylor Adonia Faumina, 6-2, S-RS, Long Beach (California) Polytechnic, Long Beach, USC Emma Halter, 5-5, L-DS, Roncalli (Indiana), Team Indiana, Texas Julia Hanson, 6-0, OH, Prior Lake (Minnesota), Northern Lights, Minnesota Anna Herrington, 6-1, MB-RS, Timber Creek (Orlando, Florida) OTVA, Boston College Emily Hellmuth, 6-2, OH, Highland Park (Texas), Skyline, Pepperdine Carly Hendrickson, 6-2, OH, Mount Notre Dame (Cincinnati, Ohio), Elevation, Florida Averie Hernandez, 6-2, OH, Normal (Illinois) West, Illini Elite, Northwestern Eva Hudson, 6-1, OH, Bishop Dwenger (Fort Wayne, Indiana), Munciana, Purdue Katie Hurta, 6-0, S-OH, Nazareth Academy (LaGrange Park, Illinois), Adversity, Indiana Rachel Jepsen, 6-4, MB, Olympus (Holladay, Utah), Club V, Pitt Devin Kahahawai, 6-2, OH, Kamehameha (Honolulu, Hawaii), Spike & Serve, Texas Kerry Keefe, 6-2, RS, Marymount (Los Angeles, California), Sunshine, Duke Caroline Kerr, 5-11, S, Thomas More (Champaign, Illinois), Illini Elite, Tennessee Hayden Kubik, 6-1, OH, Valley (West Des Moines, Iowa), Club Ignit, Nebraska Logan Lednicky, 6-2, RS, George Ranch (Richmond, Texas) Houston Skyline, Texas A&M Cheridyn Leverette, 6-0, OH, Eagles Landing Christian (McDonough, Georgia), A5, UCLA Alexa Markley, 6-2, RS, McIntosh (Peachtree City, Georgia), A5, Penn State Rylie McGinest, 6-1, MB, Long Beach (California) Polytechnic, Long Beach, USC Maggie Mendelson, 6-5, MB, Fremont (Ogden, Utah), Hive, Nebraska Jordan Middleton, 6-2, OH, Hamilton (Chander, Arizona), AZ Storm, USC Carter Mogridge, 6-4, MB-OH, Steinbrenner (Lutz, Florida), OTVA, North Carolina Serena Nyambio, 6-2, MB, Detroit Country Day (Beverly Hills, Michigan), Legacy, Michigan Grayce Olson, 6-3, OH, Foothill (Pleasanton, California), NorCal, UCLA Kate Prior, 6-5, MB, Boulder City (Nevada), Vegas Aces, BYU Kathryn Randorf, 6-0, MB-OH, Gilmour Academy (Gates Mills, Ohio), AVC, Northwestern
Top 5 Players in the Class of 2022 1. McKenna Wucherer (Milwaukee Sting, Minnesota) 2. Jordan Middleton (AZ Storm, USC) 3. Devin Kahahawai (Spike & Serve, Texas) 4 .Maggie Mendelson (Hive, Nebraska)) T5. Averi Carlson (Skyline, Baylor) T5. Elia Rubin (Sunshine, Stanford)
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