Ryan Murken

Your Prep Sports

After a historic season last fall that featured the first state tournament trip in program history Liberty High enters 2020 as one of the teams to beat in Class 5A.

Fresh off its 34-3 season that featured a trip to the 5A state tournament the Lightning open the 2020 season ranked second in the first 5A rankings of the season released on Monday by the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union.

Liberty High trails only top-ranked West Des Moines Valley in the first rankings of the season and is followed by Ankeny, West Des Moines Dowling and defending state champion Cedar Falls.

The Lightning are one of three area teams in the first rankings as Clear Creek Amana (23-15) opens the season ranked seventh in Class 4A and West Branch (21-16) is No. 13 in Class 2A.

Other top-ranked teams include Fort Madison Holy Trinity (1A), Western Christian (2A), Mount Vernon (3A) and Western Dubuque (4A).

IGHSAU Volleyball Rankings

Class 5A

1. West Des Moines Valley
2. Liberty High
3. Ankeny
4. West Des Moines Dowling
5. Cedar Falls
6. Pleasant Valley
7. Waukee
8. Ankeny Centennial
9. Dubuque Hempstead
10. Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln
11. Urbandale
12. Ottumwa
13. Bettendorf
14. Cedar Rapids Prairie
15. Indianola

Class 4A

1. Western Dubuque
2. Cedar Rapids Xavier
3. Marion
4. Sergeant Bluff-Luton
5. West Delaware
6. Glenwood
7. Clear Creek Amana
8. Gilbert
9. North Scott
10. Waverly-Shell Rock
11. Dubuque Wahlert
12. Pella
13. Winterset
14. Carroll
15. Bondurant-Farrar

Class 3A

1. Mount Vernon

2. Osage
3. Clarion-Goldfield-Dows
4. Unity Christian
5. Union
6. Davenport Assumption
7. Nevada
8. West Liberty
9. MOC-Floyd Valley
10. Carroll Kuemper
11. Roland-Story
12. Sioux Center
13. Independence
14. Des Moines Christian
15. Red Oak

Class 2A

1. Western Christian
2. Dyersville Beckman
3. Dike-New Hartford
4. Wilton
5. Boyden-Hull
6. Hudson
7. Underwood
8. East Sac County
9. Grundy Center
10. Jesup
11. Denver
12. Sumner-Fredericksburg
13. West Branch
14. Lake Mills
15. Nodaway Valley

Class 1A

1. Fort Madison Holy Trinity
2. Wapsie Valley
3. Council Bluffs St. Albert
4. New London
5. Janesville
6. Springville
7. LeMars Gehlen
8. Belle Plaine
9. Coon Rapids-Bayard
10. Edgewood-Colesburg
11. Grand View Christian
12. Gladbrook-Reinbeck
13. Newell-Fonda
14. Prince of Peace
15. Sidney

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