One major change in
the CIF girls volleyball state championships, beginning this season, is the addition of an Open Division.
Not exact matches
Whether the Open Division in
girls volleyball works out well for the top teams will be hard to determine, but it's clear to see that many more teams from other divisions will now have better odds at winning a
CIF state title than they did previously.
Similar to how it's been done in boys and
girls basketball, the
CIF Open Division in
girls volleyball will lump together the top teams into two brackets «'' one in the north and one in the south «'' regardless of school enrollment or
CIF section divisions.
The Granite Bay Grizzlies came painfully close to the peak of high school
girls»
volleyball last year, falling to St. Francis - Sacramento in the Sac - Joaquin Section and
CIF Northern Regional Division I finals and ending the season one step short of reaching the state final.
The Trailblazers swept
CIF divisional state titles in basketball for the 2014 - 15 season, won a
CIF Southern Section title this fall in
girls volleyball and were the 2015 - 16 Cal - Hi Sports Division IV State School of the Year.
I bracket in
girls volleyball also featured a lot of other strong teams, but with the same problem that basketball has had in recent years and that's that the fifth or sixth - best overall teams from the
CIF Southern Section that don't get into the SoCal Open Division teams have tended to be a lot better than other non-Open Division teams from the rest of the state.