The 2024 opening CCCWVCA State Top 25 Rankings are the earliest released than any previous year as the ratings usually don't take place until after all the teams played their first matches. As of now, 23 colleges have yet to play their first official match.
Today's opening rankings feature many of the teams who were part of the final '23 rankings as well as a few others that have shown early promise this past weekend.
San Diego Mesa, the defending state champion, is the opening #1 team despite the graduation of state tourney MVP and CCCSIA State Women's Athlete of the Year for all sports Kailyn Jager to UC Riverside.
The Big 8 Conference continues to be the gold standard as three of its teams are in the top four and the league's top seven teams were a combined 14-2 to start the season.
The regions collide this Friday-Saturday, Aug. 30-31 in the inaugural NorCal-SoCal Showcase as six teams in this poll's top 10 are featured with #7 Fresno City the host.
- SAN DIEGO MESA, Pacific Coast Athletic, 1-0: The Olympians swept Mt. San Jacinto in the season opener behind 15 kills and 10 digs from Myah Gomez. SoCal: #1; Final '23 state ranking: 1
- AMERICAN RIVER, Big 8, 2-0: A perennial state tourney participant, the Beavers open the year with sweeps over last year's state runner-up Feather River and De Anza to take the top North spot on the first rankings. Morgan Castaneda was one of the State Players of the Week. NorCal #1; Final '23 state ranking: 6