The defending beach volleyball state champions have cracked the top 10 of the entire state.
The latest Florida High School Athletic Association beach volleyball and boys volleyball rankings were released on Monday. Any games played on Monday were not included in the team's rating or strength of schedule.
With limited beach and boys volleyball squads in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, we'll combine the rankings every week through the end of the season.
The beach volleyball playoffs begin on April 21 with district tournaments, while boys volleyball starts about a week later on April 28.
Here are the third FHSAA beach volleyball rankings and the second boys volleyball rankings for area teams, plus a way-too-early playoff watch.
BEACH VOLLEYBALL RANKINGS
Class 2A
xxx
- Gulf Breeze (18.840) – first in District 1-2A, first in Region 1-2A, second in Class 2A, seventh overall in state
- Pace (7.994) – fourth in District 1-2A, eighth in Region 1-2A, 25th in Class 2A, 71st overall in state
Way-too-early playoff watch
District tournaments aren't for couple weeks, but it's still fun to examine what the playoff scenarios would look like if the regular season ended today as far as region tournaments.
District champions automatically advance to the region tournament after the district tourney, and there are four at-large bids per region. For the playoff watch, we'll presume that the top team in each district wins the district tournament and moves onto regionals – that's what we're going to share below.
Rankings are bound to change after district tournaments as well, so we'll pretend that they didn't change at all through districts to make things a little easier. Remember: anything can happen in the playoffs.
Here's what the region tournaments would look like.
Region 1-2A
- 1. Gulf Breeze ...
