The top girls volleyball teams in Central Florida, as selected by the Bright House Sports Network staff:
*These are the final regular season rankings and will not be updated until the playoffs are complete
1. Winter Springs (23-2) – Bears, ranked 10th in the country by MaxPreps, start the postseason as the prohibitive favorite to win the 8A state championship.
2. Bishop Moore (21-4) – Hornets took the first two sets from nationally ranked Gainesville P.K. Yonge but couldn’t finish off the match, losing in five.
3. West Orange (22-3) – Warriors, the top seed in 8A, District 4, enter the playoffs on a nine game winning streak.
4. Merritt Island (23-2) – Junior outside hitter Alyssa Zwolensky is closing in on 900 career kills.
5. Spruce Creek (24-0) – Perfect regular season for the Hawks included sweeps in 21 of their 24 matches.
6. First Academy (18-6) – Road to the state finals for the Royals will go through Gainesville P.K. Yonge, which hasn’t lost to a Florida team this season.
7. Lake Mary (19-6) – Rams enter the playoffs as the No. 2 seed behind Winter Springs in the 8A, District 2 tournament.
8. Lake Nona (19-5) – Lions are the area’s hottest teams with 16 consecutive victories.
9. Osceola (25-0) – Kowboys dispatched Harmony and St. Cloud to finish the regular season undefeated for the first time in program history.
10. Hagerty (18-7) – Huskies, who didn’t a drop a match in district play, are capable of making a deep playoff run in Class 7A.
Best of the Rest:
11. Oviedo (16-9)
12. Boone (17-8)
13. Olympia (18-6)
14. Apopka (16-7)
15. Lake Highland (14-10)
The rankings represent the schools in the Bright House Sports Network Central Florida coverage area (Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Orange, Osceola, Seminole and Volusia counties)
Austin Lyon can be reached at austin.lyon@bhsn.com. Follow him on Twitter, @AustinRLyon